Doctor Archive

I have been reading the boards for awhile, rarely imparting wisdom unless I feel it necessary and I feel a few of the common issues can be resolved with a little bit of communcation and a united front between us.

Issue 1..Fees.

Much discussion has been made out of this...how to charge, how much to charge. Numerous messages are left about this, ya'll see them and mostly it is dictated by the market and others. Why? Best way is to come up with a reasonable system we enforce to others. There will be a few in various areas that will never charge, but if the majority stand together, the other players feelings can be altered into thinking we are not the slaves to the combat individual.

Issue 2..Resources.

Where to ge them, what are best, etc. Heck, nothing like a constant stream of information on the shifts and an exchange and co-op for anyone wanting to buy and trade goods. There are those of us with good surveying and those without it..we could help pool those abilities together to best use our skill points.

Issue 3..Insert your own here.

You get the point..the message boards are great and we have the best correspondent around, and it is simply up to us to build more on this. We can deal with some of these issues directly in the game ourselves. No use in depending on the devs and such for everything, we need to be proactive.

So what I am proposing is a Doctor's union. The idea has been mentioned here, but not sure if anyone has really gone with it on a widespread basis. Artisans have done it and it seems to be doing okay. The extra bargaining power and unity would bwe a great boon and advantage to how the doctor profession evolves. We can help guide that and help eliminate some of those issues. Just a little extra communication, building on what the message boards do..a little more guidance and talking.

Heck, it might be just setting up a chat channel for us to talk about this stuff and actually meet. I am not talking regular long, boring and unproductive meetings, but simply some more live discussion in the game.

Just kicking a few ideas around to get some activity going..I am tired of hearing myself complain about money and lack of tips and the pains of resources.

::smirks::Help me, help you, help us.

Unionize? Not gonna happen, I hate to tell you. While you may be able to get some folks willing to do it, you'll probably have a fairly large majority who will not be interested. Either they are already in a PA (and view a union as just another PA/Guild), are not interested in being in that kind of a Union or are simply very independent. (Personally count me as being in the latter option. Heck my PA is the NO PA, PA. We don't pay dues and have no obligations. We just got a nifty tag so people will quit asking us to join their PA. )

Unionization will simply polarize other professions against us as well as get a few of our more radical brethren against us as well.

Seen it happen before in Beta, to imagine what the backlash would be like now is simply..horrendous.

Yeah, that's why unions need mob connections. When player bounties come out then we'll be in business.

Ok - I have issues with the idea of a union. We have several places where we can get very good information to help is out.

Your suggestions:

Issue 1..Fees.

This has been debated probably weekly. It's personal choice.

Issue 2..Resources.

swgcraft.com has a pretty up-to-date listing. Since these change every few days - its hard to keep the informaiton current. As far as pooling resources - many of us do. I share info with my friend who are medics, doctors and combat medics. I also depend on my guild - and we're a tiny one.

Issue 3..Insert your own here. Offier suggestions here. Start interesting discussions. Z is doing a great job both here and on the CM forum.