[TRI News Bot]

105.12.10.7:27.58

By Rafel Solamis
TRI-HQ (TRI-FP) - In a surprise statement from the TRI
Executive Council, TRI will be downsizing its operations, and ceding more
control over to the factional governments.
"As part of a multi pronged approach to more closely align TRI with
the needs of its pilots, we are taking several immediate steps to grant more
control over day to day operations to local and factional governments, who are
better suited to serve their pilots."


The initiative includes the following key actions:


*- Effective immediately, ownership of all TRI owned buildings in
Solrain, Quantar and Octavian space is transferred to their respective factional
governments.


*- TRI Research is being significantly scaled back, with Conflux Studies
being totally shutdown, while Material Sciences' budget is being slashed by 90%.
Conflux Studies and Material Sciences activities will be outsourced to factional
agencies, and/or private enterprise, with TRI Research providing coordination
and oversight only.


*- TRI Bureau of Stellar Cartography has also received a massive budget
decrease, and like TRI-R, is having its mandate changed to move towards
coordination and oversight of factional agencies.


*- TRI-RMD is receiving a significant budget increase.


*- TRI Economics Office is receiving a slight budget increase, to allow
it to better monitor economic conditions.





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[Wild_Bill]

Okay, can someone explain what this means in real speak? Or are y'all as far adrift as I am on this one? Is this part of Istvan's "damagable buildings" or perhaps the "warfare patch"? Help me out here folks. I know someone out there understands this RP-speak and can translate it into something the average (or sub-average in my case) pilot can make sense of please.

[Radi]

I would asume that this is RP ground-work for changes to factional warfare system.

[GrimGriz]

Originally Posted by Radi

I would asume that this is RP ground-work for changes to factional warfare system.

Ditto.

[Icefox]

Potentially exciting. Hmm.

I really do need to play more. It is dredging up the motivation that is difficult, though.

[QrazyKermi]

Maybe DG, Gurge, and GVB will be unregulated as a result.

[Nohbody]

Maybe it's just that my brain is still idled from work (delivering pizzas is hardly a job requiring a great mental capacity), but I'm not sure where one could possibly get deregulating sectors out of the news story. Those sectors (and why no mention of Sol sectors, anyway? You're not Sol, so it's probably not factional bias) have belonged to the respective factions for a long time now (GVB since waaaaaaay back in earlier beta versions, DG/Gurge in late beta), and are unlikely to change any time soon.

(If nothing else, I'd not be surprised if non-PvPers complained about it opening them up to random 'tards camping the gates in those sectors while factional defenders are off playing their usual OP/Wake/QC/LL gankola.)