B E A C O N
Welcome to Week 19 of Factory 5.0!
Those of you who play the "Company game" may have noticed we changed very little, if at all, during our transition from 4.0 to 5.0 early this year. However, that change is coming to you now with our Factory 5.0 Company & Workshop overhaul. With these changes we hope to make the use of companies and workshops more accessible and approachable for all members on the board, as well as integrate the codex into its use for those of us who enjoy both sections of Chaos.
Below is the new Factory 5.0 Company & Workshop tier progression system. Please feel free to post any questions regarding these changes here or in the Factory Q&A thread, or via PM.
Company Expansion and Growing in Tier
Company Index by Tier Level: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
- You may not advance more than one Tier in a single request. Threads already used for advancement from one tier to the next or made during a previous tier will not count towards a new tier advancement. If your expansion is one lengthy consistent thread, you must specifically provide the applicable unused posts that pertain to that tier up.
- Each linked thread may only be used to fulfill one of the sub-requirements for each tier level. ( IE: No double-dipping the same thread to fulfill a major contract and a use of company operations.)
- Every additional new Location & Operation or Headquarters change requested through the Company Modification Thread will require proof of expansion.
- Each expansion in Tier level will require a company to display examples of company growth in influence and/or finances or territorial expansion, as well as usage of the company's operations.Territorial expansions used for tier promotion purposes may result in that new location being added to the company's location list if it is on a new planet. Location submissions in the codex may be used for this.
- Use of a company's operations may vary from a thread in which a company's operation is utilized, or as a submission in the factory or codex in which one or more of the company's operations are used for its creation.
- If company growth is done in the form of venturing into a new operation then that new operation will be added to the company's operation list.
- Displays of company growth in influence or finances are any examples in which there are efforts to expand these two. Show that a company is putting an effort into growth and/or is putting its influence to work and it will benefit here from it!
- A major contract is any thread in which a major faction or tier V/VI company decides to align its interests, long-term, with your company specifically that greatly expands your company's influence and/or size & scope. Examples may vary from, but are not limited to: a contract or agreement to become the designated provider for one of your company's operations for a major faction or tier V/VI company, the completion of a large or ambitious project with a lasting impact on the growth of your company, and/or the long-term or permanent partnership between your company and the major faction or tier V/VI company in question.
Company Tier Upgrade Requirements
Use the following for your company Tier Up requests. Select the Tier Up template requirements in the spoiler below for the level you desire and fill in the information therein.
- Sign a contract with at least one faction or organization. (May be NPC)
- Display one example of company growth in influence and/or finances OR territorial expansion.
- Display one use of company operations.
- Sign a contract with at least two factions or organizations. (May be NPC)
- Display two examples of company growth in influence and/or finances OR territorial expansion.
- Display two uses of company operations.
- Complete a Major Contract.
- Sign a contract with three additional player run organizations, one of which must be a major faction.
- Display four examples of company growth in influence and/or finances OR territorial expansion.
- Display four uses of company operations.
- Complete a Major Contract.
- Sign a contract with three additional player run organizations, one of which must be a major faction OR tier V+ company.
- Display five examples of company growth in influence and/or finances OR territorial expansion.
- Display five uses of company operations.
- Complete a Major Contract.
- Sign a contract with three additional player run organizations, one of which must be a major faction OR tier V+ company.
- Display six examples of company growth in influence and/or finances OR territorial expansion.
- Display six uses of company operations.
Workshop Expansion and Growing in Tier
A Workshop is a small operation, comparable in size to a Tier One Company and follows the same production limitations. A Workshop’s growth in tier reflects increasing prestige and expertise in a specialized field.
- Each expansion in tier will require personal commission threads or specialty products.A specialty product is any factory or codex submission which utilizes the workshop's specialty for production.
- A Personal Commission thread involves providing your Workshop's specialty products or services to another PC or NPC used by another writer.
- A Mastercraft Project thread is an extensive and/or ambitious project that involves providing an especially innovative product or service, in keeping with your Workshop’s specialty, that is tailored personally for a PC or NPC used by another writer.
Workshop Tier Upgrade Templates
Use the following for your workshop Tier Up requests. Select the Tier Up template requirements in the spoiler below for the level you desire and fill in the information therein.
- One Personal Commission or Two Specialty products.
- One Mastercraft Project thread.
- Two Personal Commissions or Three Specialty products.
- One Mastercraft Project thread.
- One Personal Commission or Two Specialty Products.
- Two Personal Commissions or Three Specialty products.
- One Mastercraft Project thread.
- Two Mastercraft Project threads.
- Three Personal Commissions or Four Specialty products.
- One Mastercraft Project thread.
- Two Mastercraft Project threads.
- One Personal Commission or Two Specialty products.
- Four Personal Commissions or Five Specialty products.
- One Mastercraft Project thread.
- Two Mastercraft Project threads.
- Two Personal Commission or Three Specialty products.
Members will be given a 30 day window, ending on May 29th at 4PM Eastern, to submit tier ups with the previous progression system to allow time for those who are already in progress.
Credits to [member="Zef Halo"] for the proposal for a 30 day extension.
