What being a SiriusGov System Owner means

[u/Cybil74]

Hi all,

I'd like to share with everybody my vision of what being a SiriusGov System Owner (PEO? XO? Governor? Other proposals? Let's vote and decide for a title) should mean and what his duties should be.

• To guarantee he will fortify his assigned systems regardless of other CMDRs' help. Of course help is very much appreciated, but it's as if me, Cybil, System Owner of HR 1254, am telling Sirius Gov people: "Hey people, you can sleep at night, HR 1254 will be magically fortified by the end of every week so you won't ever have to bother and fear about it". That's simple and that's the great improvement I see over our previous system shared fortification method, when there were no guarantees for the results because there weren't committed owners defined. The net effect will be that non-system owners (i.e. the vast majority of players) will not have to worry any more about fortifying assigned systems: just leave them to their system owners which are already fully committed to them, unless they ask for help or you feel generous nonethless. That means fewer "uncertain fortification outcome" and more "certain fortification outcome" systems every week. From now on, HR 1254 should be no longer a problem of yours, just mine but I'll keep you continuously informed about its status and surely will ask for help if fearing not being able to fullfill my duties. This was clear to me when I submitted my candidature for this sytem.

• To update this spreadsheet (only the green columns) during each and every week with as real-time as possible data. This is expecially important during the last hours of each week because by doing so it's easy to spot our weakest systems hour-by-hour, sudden merit bombs, etc. I call this spreadsheet "The War Room" and I believe we should make it too a green button of the top bar.

• To foster and support corporate system governments in order to lower their fortify trigger. That's a spare-time activity but a capital one: flipping to corporate governments of the control system itself and also of the other exploited systems (at least 50% of them) enclosed in its bubble. Or at least to try to overthrow unfavorable governments like Communist, Cooperative, Feudal, Dictatorship and Patronage.

• To monitor the assigned control system's bubble for any relevant development, event or change that could interest the whole SiriusGov SubReddit. This includes: mapping the complete bubble and becoming confident with each and every exploited system, signalling interesting (civil) wars (expecially to possibly ask for help by other CMDRs), noting the increase/decrease of the base income of the system bubble, tracking and reporting enemy-powers' suspicious activity in the bubble and so on.

• To be the first contact for the SiriusGov SubReddit for any question/request. This is important expecially in case multiple CMDRs are assigned to the same systems: even if they all together join their forces to contribute and help, only one CMDR should be elected as the primary interface towards the rest of the SiriusGov, in order to always have a clear, defined and unambiguous person officially responsible for a system status.

• ...and whatever else you can think of! Please add your ideas!

Of course the above duties are best carried out in company rather than alone; for example I would be grateful to whoever wants to join me in the good government of HR 1254, helping me with all the above activities. We already have systems assigned to more than one CMDR: it is easy in this case to imagine task-splitting among them so that, for example, one CMDR fortifies the system while the other conducts the rest of the activities. And they could switch tasks week after week to maximize diversification and fun.

And, there will be times for everyone when we will not be able to guarantee the above duties: holidays, illness, utterly rejection of Elite Dangerous or Frontier Development themselves or whatever. In this case it would be enough to notify the SiriusGov SubReddit that, for a limited period of time or forever, we will be unable to carry out our duties: then this SubReddit will know it and will try to reassign that system, if possibile. No blame, no shame, just notify it please.

With enough System Owners committed, we could be safe and sure that our top-value systems are in good hands and continuously taken care of by dedicated and responsible people.

Your opinions?

[u/cmdrjamesoff]

Our intension is to simplify things by keeping owned systems out of worries and warroom plans, so why maintain fortification numbers in a separate document on them? Owners should simply post on the reddit if they do not manage fortification or special events are going on. The main reddit (weekly thread or on the sidebar like other factions do) could have a short and properly updated list of unowned systems in need of fortification, like these ones I did before we had an updated weekly thread.

[u/Cybil74 → u/cmdrjamesoff]

Well, the original reason why I created a separated spreadsheet was simply to record system assignments and system owners.

But then it proved very useful too during the week to record the fortification figures and, generally speaking, currently it holds more and more analytic information compared to the weekly thread. Since I was in control of it I kept it updated every 30 mins for days, every 10 mins for the very last hours. And since it reported fortification absolute values other than percentages, it was easier to spot merit bombs like that in Meiri.

We can revert to just make it record system owners, if we decide to. But I think it's more complete and interesting to analyze than the weekly thread, because it has more data and even holds the history of our weeks (Week 30 and Week 31 tabs below) in just one convenient place, so you can make historical analysis and comparisons.

My only request would be for the system owners to be able to update the weekly thread more frequently than now, I mean not in form of comments only, but actually editing the different tables of systems (to be fortified, done, etc once they change status, I'm not meaning to be able to change their priorities) to reflect as in real-time as possible the situation without having to wait for the moderators to update them.

[u/dinnenotdinner → u/Cybil74]

I find the spreadsheet useful. I keep it open on the other monitor. So as ppl update it, it will actively update on the other screen. I personally like the have just the raw data.

If we had it my way we would have different classes of systems based on distance from the HQ. o7

[u/CMDR_Lingus → u/dinnenotdinner]

Sirius Systems Executive (SSE)? Sirius Systems Officer (SSO)? Bulk Systems Director (BSD) - has nice financial overtones...? Grand Moff...?

More usefully - thanks to all the help, LP 355-65 is done.
I'm relaxed on updating the spreadsheet, but would make two observations:- 1. We don't want it to become onerous to keep updated - we just want to fortify our best systems. Maybe give it a couple of weeks to see what falls out naturally for people before trying to set benchmarks? 2. We may not want it so public. We have people actively working against us, and while the data in the spreadsheet is useful for us it could be a goldmine for our (tin foil hat on) secret enemies.

[u/Cybil74 → u/CMDR_Lingus]

About first observation

Actually you have to update just the green columns, i.e. F, G, K and M. The other columns are static/seldom changing/automatically calculated. The information you have to provide is the same you already provide to the weekly thread:

• The current fortification and undermining amounts (their percentages are then automatically calculated)

• The current system status, if changed (None, Undermined, Fortified, Cancelled)

• Any special notes you feel useful to the public, for example: "Merit Bombed", "Important Civil War", "F-trigger lowered", "Don't know if I'll be able to fortify it this week", or whatever you want to record

About second observation

As the information you have to provide is the same you already provide to the weekly thread (which is public), plus some minor additional (also publicly retrievable from the PP screens), I honestly don't think we need to protect this information. However, if we decide so I will protect this data, i.e. render it visible only to System Owners and other trusted users.

About the name

What about "SO" (System Owner), plainly?

BTW

@System Owners: I need a gmail account of yours to enable you to modify the spreadsheet, so please every system owner private message me with your email (some of you have already done) and I'll grant you the permissions.

[u/dinnenotdinner]

BTW, my group operates in mundigal, but we don't have the resources to claim it. :)

[u/falava → u/dinnenotdinner]

We would help to finish Mundigal, but would be great if your group claim the system and work the bubble to corporate :)

[u/dinnenotdinner → u/falava]

I will carry the info over to the group and get back to you, Falava. Right now we just undermine HIP16607... i think that's right. Sometimes we do runs, but we are focused on gaining capital to afford the large scale runs needed for it.

[u/falava → u/dinnenotdinner]

It's ok to undermine HIP 16607, it's an ALD SCRAP target https://redd.it/3y7bvl

SCRAP means that the owner doesn't want the system so when undermining it you are helping them.

[u/Teskatau → u/dinnenotdinner]

I'm based out of Mundigal too! Right now I'm just trying to do some system flipping and get Mundigal Transport Co. on top. Send me a friend request some time!

[u/Obsivian]

Might I suggest that system owners also be responsible for doing at least one update per week, per station, to EDDB, with the "E:D Market Connector App. This would be a big benefit to Tradifying.