Yes, I’m referring exactly about the direct CC message.
The faxes I don’t know if they are limited, but if a limit should exist, I would frankly put it for the faxes instead than for the direct message. After all faxes are already formatted to be a kind of dry communication, specifiying the rank of the sender, the threat and leaving just a little bit of space for some personal comments.
The instant communication instead, being pricey and having the privilege of (supposedly) always being given top priority by CC officers, shouldn’t have limits.
That’s the only occasion a ranking officer has to communicate everything that it needs to be known by an admiral reading. A fax can end up lost in the plethora of CC’s bureaucracy, while the message is supposedly being directly shipped to the helm of CC.
I used to be inspired some days and wrote some CC communications to be used in various situations, but I found that each communication I wrote far, far exceed the stringent limit we are currently operating under.
For example yesterday there was a round where a very effective wizard, that I suppose from his looks was Huk Nowak, with the aid of a laughter demon familiar, completely annihilated our station.
The original message I wished to use was the following :
ERT REQUEST
COMMS LEVEL CLEARANCE : DELTA NOVA CHARLIE KILO
PRIORITY : ABSOLUTE
SUBJECT :
SENDER : Captain Sirio Zajcev, Esquire
RECIPIENT : Admiral — of the — Sector
Dear CC,
Our local security detachment is dead.
I… I heard their screams on comms, saw their valiant deaths on cameras. I thought I had put all the blood and gore of seeing young men and women dying senselessly behind me, during the corporate wars. We fought too hard for far too long that time and it took many years and too much liquor for me to forget it.
But then I heard the desperate dying screams of all the youngsters on board and now it seems to me that I have gotten older while war hasn’t changed a bit.
Please, Admiral XXX, we need your help. I need your help. Send ASAP the best ERT team CC have avalaible and help me put an end to this bloodshed. We swam through a red galaxy already, once. During that godforsaken corporate war… let’s avoid coloring this small spot of space, where this station resides, red.
People need safety, people need hope but much more importantly, people need armed backup, NOW!
May the NT pioneriing spirit never dies,
Captain Sirio Zajcev, Esquire
With our current word limit I needed to remove all spaces between paragraphs and cut the communication at
let’s avoid coloring this small spot of space, where this station resides, red.
If I was able to write more, I would have added how this Serpentine wizard and his familiar were a threat like no other I had see, how he had the guts to come speak to me softly while the literal ghosts of our fallen were desperately crawling the hallways, blurring the lines between life and death itself.
Instead I was forced to cut even the base message short and…
I don’t see how this can improve a functionality that is already so rarely used, when instead removing the limit of it would finally let me and other captain’s players shine, offering the admin team a message that is truly worth of a response!
