Jethro Bookens

To the OP, I just want to say that was something outstanding to point out and give examples of. This is something that would be a superiorly beneficial 101 scenario for the community to take a look at. I often find people are trapped in horrible RP habits, rather than ethical or more so logical RP functionality. It promotes creativity, and also thwarts the feeling of repetitive RP scenarios with the same dialogue to use your approach. This means of interaction could help a lot with many of the negative RP complaints I have seen. A basic understanding, yet one that still seems to go over the head of many. If one person uses /me to perform an action, it's much cleaner and produces more RP for the response to be in /me until an actual question about a scene or scenario must be addressed. For instance relating to the senses, a /do works well. But it does not require(essentially) a /do if someone uses /me to neglect an action against them with one of their own. A /do seems mostly to be used as a means to speed up RP and trim the fat that is the actual emoted RP. It's best used for 3rd person references to help the player understand what their character would see, feel, ect. Logically. Though, rules are rules.

I think as an overall resolution to this current stigma, the victims of poor-RP should submit evidence via the forums in the form of a report. Not to initially declare a proclaimation of rule breaking, but as a means to single out individuals into a pseudo-blacklist. If the negligent RP antics of the community can be determined or otherwise individually sourced to sole players as a habitual occurence, having documentation of a specific repeat offender performing obvious non-RP antics(IE Robbing people with out a reasonably assumed detriment due to persecution, robbing people for their meager items when you drive a super car, ect) can eventually lead to a non-RP violation. And that can put fear in the heart of those who do not fear to metagame their motives against the reality of the RP. At anytime, building a record of foul play creates a track record for staff that will eventually garner enough attention to need correction. Anecdotally, it is a much more effective means to instill change and a status quo through fear of deviation, rather than simply trying to set an example against the odds of someone who knows they can operate outside of a minority preference. Eclipse has a target audience of roleplayers, which is becoming that minority by being on the opposite side of the change, so as that target market it is up to the players themselves to A: Let the non-RPers know what said market is, and B: Let the staff be reminded of the market they are promoting and not managing to uphold. It is just as much the community responsibility to establish the means for ensuring a quality of life as it is the staff's to enforce it. Give logical reasons for how these situations are non-RP or game breaking and make it a reason for action. Complaining about something that has no basis of merit to be fixed is not going to change anything. At most, it only adds to the grief mentality. Disgruntled people are usually the first ones to turn around and cause disgruntlement. Ask yourself questions before going forward. Here are some examples, but not limited to: -Are these players in a faction that promotes this RP, and should it be taken up at a larger stature in the organization to correct them playing outside of what they claim to offer to the community? -If they are in a faction, does this activiry support the faction and it's current objectives? -Are these players RPing as their character in the way it has been described and/or has developed or are they carrying out a meta agenda to meet an OOC mark through IC bounties? -Does the player have a good standing in the community? -Does this character live in dire circumstances, or are they in a modded car, have expensive guns, a nice abode that supports no real evidence that they should be engaging in petty theft on randoms? -Are you being robbed going at high speed where engine noise, wind, and radio volume, assumed noise pollution would flood out the shouting person chasing you? And did they shoot you for being a good RPer and not acknowledging their powergame? -Did you not accept their frisk command ASAP but you RP'd allowing the process and gave a detailed account as to your lack of resistance? And did you try to enforce RP by making them take their time to post and provide emotes in response? -Did they shoot you even though in RP you abided by their commands with /me or /do? (Perhaps you made them RP unzipping your pocket? Or finding where you had something hidden prior to /friskapprove being implemented?) Your own creativity can be your downfall in this situation, not the lack of character in others. This also goes for those who are not creative enough to create a story for their character in roleplay that is not supported by the scripted mechanics. Those are a MINOR part of the roleplay. Those who complain about their being nothing to do, simply don't understand that roleplay is about using creativity to drive a story and create the environment YOU WANT through your character actions and relations. The standing issue seems to be that people are in the bubble of only using the material environment provided to them and adding little to it. The result was this negative maximized hyper-capitalization of everything available to the point it became a habitual nuisance and over stretched pursuit of happiness, so to speak. (My faction Merryweather at the moment has NO supported in game scripted mechanics, yet I have managed to create a way for it to be a progressive and interactive part of the community... when the community is ready... Not criminal, nor goverment, it floats in a grey area where those involved must seek opportunity and provide opportunity to the community in order for it to have signifigance and be progressive. It's still a prototype, and unfortunately requires selecting the most beneficial candidates from the community to support better RP everywhere it operates, but I believe if done properly it can set a foundation for RPing outside of the confines people have set for themselves inside of mechanics. It's going to be a learning experience in true roleplay creativity, and in neutral faction play. That comes with knowing the rules really well, enforcing them, being an excellent and creative RPer, and making sure that others interacting with you do the same... but this is just an example of being creative to solve your issues... And I have only mentioned it because I believe others should be trying similar outside of the box approaches to harnessing a better quality of roleplay mentally.) Look at the situation and ask yourself, does this robbery make sense in terms of who is performing the action? Did they in turn comply and reply to your RP? Just because your character is at their whim does not mean you OOCly are. Use your RP to take charge of the situation. If that fails, from the few examples listed, a combination of them could be grounds for producing an actual report on the foundation of multiple broken rules. I provide no empirical data or knowledge to the subject, this is just my personal annotation to the aforementioned topic posted by the OP. The cursory methods expressed are merely a means of looking at how we can improve RP quality more effectively, by improving our approach towards resolution. It is a process which can be applied to any suggesstion or complaint. This is just me addressing that perhaps if we want relevant change, we should think more empirically rather than just using anecdotal narratives to go about our agendas. Research the issue that plagues the community, produce the evidence with the data, and present the solution and perhaps it will find correction with staff not having to go out of their way to do all of the ground work. It's a community, those most active at the ground level know best whats taking place in game. Be communicative and be an ambassador of your own issues and complaints. It just may help more than yourself to do so. And there may well be others speaking the same narrative. Voices can be loud, but the rumble of a communitive chant does not go unfelt. I on the other hand, do not have the information to seek any rectification to this specific issue, but I agree it is an issue, and plenty of you seem to have the details required to hot fix it.

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"Superior Training. Trusted Solutions." This thread is Out of Character and information on this thread may not be used for In Character purposes. This is purely to introduce Merryweather Security Consulting and give you a more in-depth view of our core principles, the structure as well as the role-play that we provide to the community. Section 1: About Us 1.1 Purpose The Purpose of Merryweather Consulting is to Provide Security, Provide Protection, and to Provide Specialized Training Applications to our clients. 1.2 Background & History FOUNDED 1997. Merryweather provides civilian security services to private companies and public sector entities; however, the more visible division of Merryweather is its private military operations department. Sometime before 2013, Merryweather received authorization by the federal government to operate on American soil. However, shortly after this government sanction, the company suffered several setbacks due to external complications. By the end of 2013, Merryweather's license to operate in the United States was revoked "officially" after several uncovered public relations disasters caused the loss of multiple civilian and government contracts, especially from the United States government. As a repercussion of this, the United States Government grounded Merryweather at a vacant warehouse facility within the confines of Fort Zancudo, providing the location as an intermediary for the storage of outbound Merryweather assets during the SA Branch disambiguation process. To this day, the facility is still harboring an un-exported stockpile of Merryweather supply that the US Government has yet to release to the company due to internal disputes. Though this brief residence was short-lived, they've set forth to start a tedious reclamation of their once held territory at Elysian Island and maintain the threshold which is the Port of Los Santos. However, Elysian Island and the encompassing port are but an external Area of Operations for the company, the true focal point for basing their staff is the once leased facility at Humane Labs where they intend to set down their roots and base their Head Quarters. In its current state, company founder Don Percival has disappeared, and a majority of the company shares have been bought out by an unknown entity, becoming the new majority shareholder and laying the foundation for a referendum on how the firm operates under a new name, New Merryweather, but for common cognizance and simplicity most still call the organization Merryweather. With this new era of Merryweather, a corporate schism ensued resulting in opposing sects within the corporation vying for power over what remained and founding their own subsidiaries of Merryweather, all claiming to be the true heirs of the company. To this day it remains unclear who is the true and original Merryweather Security. Some claim that this unknown shareholder who has laid claim to a majority of the company shares is Percival using an unregulated offshore account, but this has yet to be confirmed. Now, with Merryweather and its interests cast into the shadowy corners of Los Santos, they've taken to working outside of government sanction, reforming their branch in the region as a black market firm. The company has become less selective in its contractors than their prior ex-military heritage presented in the past. Merryweather has fallen into the unfortunate circumstance of recruiting less technically skilled operators than the previously considered retired law enforcement, military, and government workers it swore by, in an attempt to maintain a dynamic foothold in such a profitable region. It isn't uncommon to find an ordinary civilian with a penchant for security & enforcement consigned to operations under the Merryweather banner these days. The company has always been known to allow well-paying individuals to outsource to them for personal use when requiring security consultation. Legal and less so, illegal contracts go to the highest bidder, including but not limited to crime syndicates, local businesses groups, and even on occasion county, city, and state government agencies looking to keep their hands out of the proverbial dirt. However, operations have degraded into a more personalized scope, with Merryweather setting forth its new in-house agenda to instill a security presence via "active denial" at hotspots around the map. Including but not limited to drug labs, drop off points, chop shops, gang territory, and local businesses known to be honey holes for crime and disorder. Some could argue they compete with local law enforcement. Circa 2018, Merryweather finally activated their first actionable ground asset in Los Santos to carry out a reintegration, a man going by the name John Doemen, an ex-military Special Forces operator turned IIA Contractor. After a short-lived retirement from working under the IIA, unable to remain out of work, busybody Doemen found himself seeking employment with the FIB as a field agent though was rejected due to age restrictions, and a failure to meet physical standards, at least officially. If asked, Doemen would likely declare it was due to his previous work with the IIA, rather than his ineptitude. As such, Doemen resorted to what any soldier acclimated to being on the line with a band of brothers would do, he found a new cause to fight for. Under the name and persona Jethro Bookens he joined a small Motorcycle Club known as the Black Skulls MC. Though not a career criminal he did what needed to be done to valiantly serve alongside his new brothers and maintain that familiar camaraderie despite his militaristic morals. During this time is when an old contact of Doemen's from Merryweather would reach out with an offer. And with this offer of a more suitable engagement Doemen went about utilizing his time in the MC relearning the terrain and more importantly the current organizations of power within its maritime borders. Now, with the company unwilling to reinvest the same financial capital as they once had in the region, at least not without proper forward observation, they picked up Doemen and gave him a set of short-term objectives that would change that. Secure a foothold, instate a professional security presence in the area, accrued civilian assets including weapons and vehicles available to the territory, and locate and prepare a team of resourceful operatives to begin initial black market operations. As for the future of Merryweather, the goal is to reestablish their once-lucrative business in San Andreas by providing high-quality security services, reclaiming their front at Elysian Island, and reclaiming their supply stock from Fort Zancudo via a United States Government reinstatement on their sanction to operate openly and to full capacity in the state. This mission was assigned as Operation BadWeather. Moreover, the newly forming team of operatives to see it through has been coined Task Force Bigfoot, under the supervision of the recently designated Field Marshal John Doemen. 1.3 Mission Statement Merryweather delivers advisory, security, training, mission support and, technology solutions to its clients, enabling them to succeed in challenging environments around the world. Our elite training and security solutions are primarily focused on protection, enforcement, and security operations. 1.4 Vision Statement Guided by integrity and a commitment to excellence and professionalism, we provide our clients with the most trusted source of advisory, support, training, logistics, technology, and security services. 1.5 Our Guiding Principles -Integrity: We demonstrate integrity in every aspect of what we do. We are committed to instilling professional and ethical behavior in all our employees, teammates, and associates. -Governance: We take responsibility for our performance legally and ethically. We have a diverse chain of command that provides oversight and guidance to best serve our customers. -Excellence: We set the bar for the best in class operational excellence. We empower our people to deliver customer focused solutions with the highest levels of professionalism and commitment to excellence. -Dignity: We honor the rights and beliefs of our fellow associates, our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we operate. We treat others with dignity and respect. -Teamwork: We promote and support a diverse, yet unified team, while respecting the individuality of our people. We work together as a team to meet our client's goals. We deploy willingly to the most remote and dangerous regions, leveraging our unique skill set in support of our client's missions. -Innovation: We value, encourage, and enable our employees, teammates, and associates to develop innovative and pragmatic solutions to real-world challenges. 1.6 Violations and Sanctions Any employee who violates applicable law or any Company policies, including the Code, is subject to strict disciplinary action, which may include action up to and including termination of employment. Additionally, any employee who engages in reckless or malicious reporting, knowingly makes or refers a false allegation with the knowledge that the incident reported has no factual basis, deliberately provides false information, refuses to cooperate when subject to an investigation shall be subject to strict disciplinary action up to and including termination. 1.7 Accountability for Upholding the Code You are responsible for adherence to the standards of conduct set forth in this Code and for raising questions if you are concerned that these standards are not being met. Merryweather supervisors and managers must be particularly careful with their words and conduct to avoid placing or seeming to place pressure on subordinates that could cause them to perform in a way that is contrary to the ethical standards set forth in this Code and Company policies. Any waiver, including an implicit waiver or pre-approval, of one or more provisions of the Code, must be reviewed and approved by the Branch Manager, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Board of Directors. 1.8 Area of Operations (Elysian Island and the surrounding area.) Section 2: Rank Structure 2.1 Rank Structure [RANK TREE TBD] 2.2 Rank Descriptions [Director] Oversees day to day operations. Would watch training programs, and overview the Chairman/Board of Directors, and the Assistant Director as well as the Mobile Teams. Would take command during Mobilization. Would assign the names of operations that are to happen. [Assistant Director] Oversees day to day operations. Would watch and conduct training programs. Would, oversee the Chairman/Board of Directors, and the Mobile Teams. Would take command during Mobilization. Would assign the names of operations that are to happen. [Chairman] Would Establish new protocols, and enforce the rules that were established by the Board's’ vote. Is basically the quasi-3rd in command and voted into this spot. Can’t command the company mobile elements. [Board of Directors] Would vote on new regulations that are approved by the Directors, and chairman and then under a vote of ⅔. They are to conduct meetings and discuss contracts. Can’t command the company mobile elements. [Field Marshal] Would command the Merryweather Contractors during missions, or training. Would assume command unless the Director or Assistant Director opts to take command of an operation. Is next in line for Assistant Director. Is 3rd in command. Is the operations commander. [Field Officer II] Is a platoon leader, and would report to the Field Marshal about promotions/demotions, training, and comments. Is the operations leader. [Field Officer I] (x3) They are the squad leaders, and would command their squad which consists of 2 teams: Senior Contractor, 1 Contractor II, 4 Contractor II; 1 Senior Contractor, 1 Contractor II, 4 Contractor I. Are to be assigned squad names: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie as needed/available. [Senior Contractor] (x6) (x2/Field Officer I) They are the team leaders, and would command their team during operations, and would conduct individual trainings if needed. Their team consists of: 1 Contractor I, and 4 Contractor II. Their Team name will be assigned by their Section leader (Field Officer I). [Contractor II] (x6) (x1/Senior Contractor) Is Second in line to become a Team leader. Would enforce the Senior Contractor's order and is the Senior Contractor’s right-hand man. Contractor II's are assigned this rank by their Fire Team Leader (Senior Contractor). [Contractor I] (x18) (x4/Senior Contractor) Is a Trained Personnel that was accepted and trained into this Private Military Company. They are chosen into a team by a Senior Contractor. Section 3: Procedures/Services 1.3 Convoy Escort Below are some convoy choices you can have when using Merryweather's services and they are our preferred convoy types but if you (the client) would like a different type of convoy please put in the contract what vehicles it consists of and we will do our best to comply to your requests. [Presidential Convoy] Consists of a front SUV, a middle Stretch for the VIP, and a back SUV, followed by potential air support. ($30,000) [Military Convoy]Consists of 1 Heavy Vehicle Front; 1 SUV Middle; 1 Heavy Vehicle Back;1 additional Vehicle in Front; with the middle for the VIP, followed in the air by potential air support. ($40,000) 3.2 Provided Services The services that are provided by Merrweather PMC, are listed below (prices are negotiable and may vary on a case-by-case basis): ●Full Service Risk Management Consulting ($1500 + additional fees) ●Security Consulting ($1500) ●Maritime Security Services ($10,000) ●Intelligence ($25,000) ●Threat Analysis ($15,000) ●Security Training ($5000) ●Defense Services ($5000 + $1000 per unit) ●Mobile Escort ($10,000) ●Air Support ($50,000) ●Recon Support ($10,000 + $1000 per unit) ●Infantry Support ($5000 + $1000 per unit) ●Bounty Hunting/Assassination ($10,000 starting rate) Section 4: Equipment Roster 4.1 Weapons Roster The weapons we have at Merryweather are listed below as follows, but are not limited to: Rifles Carbine Rifle Assault Rifle Sub-Weapons SMG Pistols Pistol Heavy Pistol Combat Pistol 4.2 Vehicle Rosters Below is a list of vehicles, maritime vessels, and air transport vehicles to be expected, they are listed below as follows, but are not limited to: Ground Vehicles Mesa Patriot Contender Insurgent Maritime Crafts Dinghy Air Crafts Buzzard Appendix A: Tactics & Training (Below is a link to one of many Merryweather Team Tactical Trainings.) https://1drv.ms/w/s!Aoyna3PP2b6cgR7CYUdij6eVc3rg Appendix B: Recruitment Process (OOC: All players seeking to join New Merryweather must have at least 10,000Exp for consideration, exceptions can only be made for those who partake in security training prior, but this is no guarantee for selection. [Security training will not only test your RP ability but also your understanding of Eclipse RP rules.] Merryweather will start as an "exclusive" faction and move towards being an "elite" faction. At its peak, there will be no more than 35 Contractors, not to include executive staff. All interested candidates are expected to show a reasonable level of activity and are available for A: One meeting per week and/or B: One operational tasking per week. If the said individual cannot, or will not be available it is expected that they inform someone in Leadership prior or risk expulsion for inactivity on an IC basis. All players seeking entry are expected to abide by the Eclipse RP rules and uphold a strong character of RP. RP practice & ethics will be a major consideration for recruitment as some of what a player will partake in requires more RP /do and /me than the basic run and gun shenanigans. If training and RPing long arduous journeys are not your styles, New Merryweather may not be for you. Don't like the idea of sitting at a listening post for long periods of time doing recon in prep for a mission, think again? Is that you over there RPing field stripping your sidearm due to mud jamming the slide after that swamp we crawled through? Right on! We will try to uphold a realistic and immersive PMC environment, and that often times can mean doing the menial labor before the heavy action. You, the player, is responsible for getting a handle on said Rules & RP Skills before selection. At no point will the actions of an exterior party be a reason to deter from this. Contact an admin if you run into a non-RP situation, NEVER will we take the law into your own hands. MSC will maintain a high-quality standard and present themselves in RP as models for good play.)

Today a good man went down before a brother. A man who spoke that last words "I'm up, I'm up." as if a batte-cry declaring his inevitable victory over death. Calling his severe wounds nothing but road-rash. A courageous man. A willful man. A Fallen Soldier. Ready to serve, but never reaching such postulation. For the short time he was known, even as a simple Hangaround he earned the slightest semblance of respect from the Vice President with his love for motorcycles, the nerve to brandish his weapon in defense of his hog... even against the VP, and his will to ride... he earned the respect... Never patched.