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Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide a community environment for independent House Steiner Units, allied House Davion Units, and those mercenary units loyal to each of them in Mechwarrior Online. This environment will encourage resource sharing, enhance teamwork, and foster friendly and productive community growth through a common communications port.
Community
Our community is one of competition. Through this community we hope to find common ground between House Steiner units. This common ground will provide camaraderie and resources to be competitive. Being competitive is always having a chance to win, ensuring pilots will enjoy the game, and building a reputation within the community. By giving unit pilots and unit leadership a communication hub to share ideas, knowledge of game mechanics, battlefield tactics, and information on enemy units, we increase our competitiveness.
This community is not a chain of command. No one will have authority over yourself or your gaming experience. To accommodate cooperation towards common goals while respecting the individuality of player groups, the idea of Battle Groups was formed for interaction in the community.
[Above Graph shows the concept of the communication of the Hub. At the base are all pilots interacting, sharing their knowledge and experiences, and building a community. Each Battle Group is independent of each other, with their own respective chains of commands. Battle Group Leaders share a discussion forum to represent their group to bring up issues, coordinate efforts in game, and evolve the Battle Groups to meet the needs of the game. On top is titled "NPC Archon" as no player will assume the position of Archon, it will be held by the developers and game mechanics.]
BattleGroups
In addition to the Communication Hub's goal of encouraging communication between each individual pilot, the Hub is also set up to support the idea of a Battle Group. A Battle Group is a unit or group of units with its own chain of command independent of other Battle Groups. Since each Battle Group has its own chain of command, it will not be interfered with by other Battle Groups regardless of individual rank. Emphasis on each Battle Group is its own entity.
The idea of a Battle Group rose from the requirement of flexibility. Without knowing exactly what we will be able to do on a strategic level within the game, a form of cooperation between groups needed to exist before knowing what the objectives of that cooperation would be. The idea is designed to remain simple and adapt to any situation we find ourselves in, so input on the idea is not only encouraged it is required to meet the organizational challenges we will find in the future.
Hub Resources
By combining resources and organizing we will achieve more than we can separately. Recruiting tools are offered in the way of forum and website advertisement of units, a large recruitment pool of available pilots, and volunteer training groups to assist pilots with learning basic piloting and teamwork skill sets. In addition knowledge of website and graphics creation will be shared along with other common issues that the community wants addressed.
Please join us at www.housesteiner.com and sign up for the forum to help shape this Steiner Hub community.
Edited by Silent Monk, 12 March 2015 - 10:12 AM.
... it'd be nice if the other major LCAF units will join, too ... my preferred affiliation would be with the 10th or 11th Lyran Guards (I am pretty sure that I am not the only one though) ...
