Talk:Malton Telephone

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Our phone mast is down in hollomestown the zombies have destroyed the building its on and we cant call out.

Company outfit

Hey everybody,

I was thinking about the new clothes feature, and maybe it would be nice if we had a standard issue company outfit. I was thinking about overalls, in either blue, dark blue, red, dark red, dark green, brown, dark brown and grey, and maybe pair this with a reflecting jacket (From a police station or fire department). What do you guys think about this?

07:38, 6 June 2007 (BST)

I think it's a good idea. Maybe Kevan could even add a special "MalTel hat" to phone mast buildings? Whatever gets decided, I think a uniform could only help group unity. --Mordred^MalTel 16:29, 6 June 2007 (BST)

As an ally and loose affiliate (and at this point, prospective employee), the only objection I think anyone could raise is from an RP standpoint. The nudity of Jonathan Frey is essential to the artistic expression through his journal. Is there some way dedicated RP/diarists could apply for an exemption?

-- Jonathan Frey 13:48, 8 June 2007 (BST)

Using HQ building to dispatch techs

I am a new MalTel employee, though I do have a lot of experience maintaining phone masts. While operating as a roaming tech, there were several times where I could have used some back up to clear or hold a mast building, but oftentimes it is difficult to get the locals to help out with the mast building when they are busy protecting malls and NTs.

So, in order to facilitate communication amongst our members and sympathizers who listen to our radio freq at 27.10 I propose keeping a transmitter running full-time in the Sidoli Building in Tollyton to use to dispatch techs to areas where other techs could use some backup. The problem with our radio frequency now is that you can never find a transmitter when you need one. Instead, I propose that if someone needs backup they can contact my MalTel character, Ramona via phone message who will then relay the request for help out over our radio frequency. Hopefully someone friendly will be in the area who can assist with the problem. What do you all think? Erik 21:01, 5 August 2007 (BST)

A great idea. There was some confusion a while back over in Earltown after I sent a radio cast out and someone requested aid in the far NE corner. For dispatch purposes, I am confined to the South West Quadrant of the map, the burbs between New Arkham, Grigg Heights, Galbraith Hills and Buttonville. I have two alts and I try to keep them outside of the same quadrant to avoid even the appearance of zerging. I also think we should all add our profile links to this page (maybe in the active tech section?) so we can get a simple phone tree network going, although I can be hard to get ahold of via phone. I spend most of my time wandering areas where there is no signal, since obviously, that's where I need to be. Which is why I make heavy use of the Wiki to communicate.

I also think we should do our best to maintain satellite communication offices, maybe one in each quadrant, since radio range is somewhat limited. I'm thinking inside the abundant factories around Necrotech buildings towards the middle of each quarter of the city. I admit there are some practical considerations that must be made: I generally travel a huge, random, rotating circuit through the SWQ (originally, I tried a hub-and-spoke style service plan...but with personnel only sporadically available that proved completely bass ackwards), and so am a given suburb for maybe only a day or two (or four...I'm looking at you, Mockridge Heights).

I was under the impression that there is no range to radio transmissions, that they reach anywhere within the city, so I don't know if it would be beneficial to have numerous satellite offices around the city, as they could be difficult to maintain. I do like the idea of locating our HQ in a factory however. It would be good to have an always-powered factory to acquire generators and fuel. Our current headquarters is just a plain office building. Erik 20:23, 6 August 2007 (BST)

Withdrawn...I re-read the radio pages, and unless there are more than 50 people tuning in, we're safe. I think we're safe.--Jonathan Frey 21:36, 6 August 2007 (BST)

The recent zombah troubles might lend themselves to a complex of compartmentalized factories all within 10 or 20 AP of each other without stepping outside. That way, they can be maintained and if one transmitter goes out, dispatch is still operational (something I learned from the bad ol' days at MCDU). I recommend we communicate future HQ locations via text messaging, as well, since that seems to be the least organized way of secure communications, that is, once we've got all of the profile links up. --Jonathan Frey 21:40, 6 August 2007 (BST)

My last idea is for techs to file rough flight plans on this page (again, possibly in the active tech section). I know security concerns (as well as the long staid company tradition of doing whatever the f*ck we feel like...a tradition I personally cherish) make it impractical to disclose exact coordinate locations or to plan everything to the nth degree, but I don't think anything's wrong with "I'm in this suburb today and I plan on heading in this general direction." Since we're at an extremely low personnel count, it'd be nice if we could avoid duplicating work. The tradeoff is that we'll have fewer personnel moving through the same territories, less frequent datestamp entries for the Big Board, and thus patchier intel.

So that's all I got. I also added Ramona to my contact list.

--Jonathan Frey 16:41, 6 August 2007 (BST)

New HQ

I know we've been talking IG about moving our headquarters, but we haven't been able to reach nay kind of decision since radio communication is kind of a pain. Also, I figure we need to talk more about recruitment and/or forming "contracts" with established groups to maintain the masts in some suburbs. To get some easier (and secure) communication together, does anyone think it's a good idea to set up a forum? --Cargill 06:50, 23 August 2007 (BST)

A forum might be useful if someone wants to set one up. At the very least, we need to add each other to our contact lists. This is my MalTel character. It would help me a great deal to at least know where people are operating.

As for HQ, within a week of relocating it to Galbraith Hills the Extinction blight from the NW of the city moved in the suburb. There are so few survivors left in the area that even if we are able to retake the building, it is unlikely we'll be able to hold the building for any length of time. I barely got out alive. I've been subject to 4 break-ins in four different buildings in the span of one day. I don't know what to suggest now. I will likely hold out on rebuilding or relocating HQ again until things settle down. Heck, from what I can tell, at least half of our techs are zombies now. We need to focus on getting ourselves revived and recruiting new people before we start worrying about headquarters again. Erik 16:09, 29 August 2007 (BST)

Alright I'll try to set up a forum of some kind later this week when I'm a little less busy. I have you in my contacts, and a few others, so I'll try to get in touch with some people and see who is still active. I'll be up in the NE checking out towers for a few days, and then hopefully we can find a nice burb near the center that isn't so dangerous. --Cargill 18:48, 29 August 2007 (BST)

Sadly those "safe" burbs are becoming fewer and fewer. Good luck though, and stay alive. Erik 19:37, 29 August 2007 (BST)

Well I started a forum (http://z3.invisionfree.com/MalTel/index.php) and I'm working on getting things set up for what we need. If you register, I can give you admin powers and we can get everything set. --Cargill 06:28, 1 September 2007 (BST)

Ramona / Erik, how's HQ coming along? Still there? SkullnBones 16:44, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the HQ to the mast building in Roftwood. It has been very secure as of late, no break-ins for the last couple weeks. I need every tech to add me as a contact so I can phone them when needed. Also, everyone needs to make sure to carry a hand-held radio tuned to 27.10 for announcements and whatnot.Erik 20:24, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Districts

Hey there,

OK, I moved most of the old Talk stuff to the Archive. If you want something back, move it back to this page.

Also, I think we can work more efficiently. If everyone selected a district (Such as SE-1 or NE-3), we could cover the entire city with just 20 employees! Later on, we could even add Regional Managers for each quarter of Malton.

Advantages:

• Local residents will help you once they start to recognize you
• You can keep personal contact with local groups, and get them to help
• We're more spread out throughout the city, so we can keep the Mobile Phone Mast page better up to date and can respond faster to requests for help
• We would have more time per Phone Mast, so we would have time to install Radio Transmitters

Disadvantages:

• We would all be separated throughout the city, and would rarely meet, if at all
• We'll need to have 20 people to cover the entire city

What do you guys think?

SkullnBones 16:44, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I like the district idea. My only concern is that we don't have enough active techs to pull it off. How many people can we count on to do this right? We have 16 active techs listed. I only have contact info for 10 of them (can someone send me Asheets' ID number?). Maybe for the short-term we could assign a few people to each quadrant who could help each other out as needed.

It also might be helpful to know what existing groups actually do maintain their own masts, so we don't duplicate efforts. However, looking at the mast status page, it looks like we do the vast majority of the edits.

Anyone else want to weigh in? Erik 20:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea to me, although every once and a while I like to be a roaming tech. Sometimes I like to hit the open road of Malton. Would I still be able to do that in this new system?--Mich Fuchs 00:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm all for districting. It would definately make our job easier since we would get to know our district. That way we know which groups are maintaining there masts and we don't have to worry about doing the long run thing. I think our illustrious leaders though should find the most secure areas and work ffrom there so that they can concentrate on keeping everyone working and cordinate any support efforts. Is there a districting mmap up any where? and we may want to consider hooking up two techs to certain trouble areas? On a side note I have an alt right now trying to restore Darkerstown, it is a ghost town again. So if anyone is looking for a challenge your welcome to come help out. Nurelco09:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I know I know, I'm not a MalTel-guy. But since the Electric Light Torchestra maintains the power in one suburb (Dulston), I'd vote yes if I were allowed to. For the sake of simplicity, you could use the same districts as on the radio map ... I guess you already planned it that way. Please let us know, once you have a specific "manager" of the very northeast, so that we can work together. -- [ ρsych°Lychεε ] ^☼ T 12:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to all of you for the positive reactions, I'm glad you like the idea. Some issues:

• Yes, I was planning on using the existing districts, they're well known and generally accepted.
• If anyone wants to be a roaming tech once in a while or all of the time, that shouldn't be a problem with me (or anyone I know of :) ). This is a game, and supposed to be fun, remember? :)
• Nurelco, who do you mean by our 'illustrious leaders'? The MalTel I know has gone without proper leadership for more than a year now. :)
• Glad our friends at the ELT like the idea! If there were more groups like you, Malton would be an easier place to power. I was planning on running the outer north-east (District NE-3) myself, since I'm in that area anyway.

If you want to claim a district, just add it to your name on the employee listing on the MalTel page.

SkullnBones 14:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I should have included the ubiquitous (scarcasm) label after the leader part. However though you (skullnbones) and Ramona seem to have adopted the leader role for our little repair crew. On a side note I'm going to take the SW5 district since I'm already in the area. Nurelco14:27, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Right, sometimes I get so into it, I forget that this is indeed a game. I'm going to remain a roaming tech, but as of right now I've settled down in the NW-1 District to join up with some old friends.--Mich Fuchs 00:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok I've gotten my district quite secure and operateing at peak capacity, so I have extended my repair pattern a bit. I don't suppose there is anything wrong with that is there? How is everyone else doing out in the great wide expanse of the city? O and on a side note it seems that just about the safest place in the city is any suburb behind the bash. They seem to operate like a zed vaccum pulling nearly every random feril with them. Kind of a nice little present they give us hungh.--Mr NoName001 15:24, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Talking Live

Ok so am I the only one of our exclusive little club here that uses the Maltel Forum? Or is it that we just don't need to talk to one another that much? Nurelco15:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Ehm... Oops. No, I don't check the forum, then again: Do we need to? SkullnBones 18:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't suppose we do. We are a group in only the loosist sense of the term, and besides the post I myself put up a month back there isn't any activity there. I guess it would help if there were more then just 8 people on the forum of course. That being said should we start useing the forum more to cordinate out of game? Pass on tips for successfull work tasks or something? On a side note I just had the most successfull search I have ever had. Walked into a Factory and on a single search pulled out a generator. The whole reason I was there. For some reason I don't think that is likely to happen to me again anytime soon. Nurelco03:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Just thought I might point out that our little nearly empty forum is finally getting some use. Maybe the rest of us can start talking on it a little more regularly? It might help us to have a slightly better idea of whats going on in game phone wise?Nurelco20:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok I know I said it once, but I'll say it again, there is quite a bit of cordination going on in the foorum now days, so if you all find your way back there we may be able to organize some major drives to gain members, and cell service throughout Malton. Please if you haven't already, check out the Maltel Forum folks.Nurelco04:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Extra Phone Masts???

I'm here in Paynterton, and there is an extra phone mast here! The normal phone mast (The Smither Building) has a neighbouring building (The Denning Museum) which also has a phone mast! This is also the case with The Poulet Museum in Danversbank. Do you guys know of any other buildings like this?

It doesn't seem like Kevan to leave bugs like that around. Or am I being a conspiracy theorist by hoping they will unlock some hidden game feature?

SkullnBones 18:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Observation

Has anyone besides me noticed that the only green suburbs are the ones that we have a distinct presence in? You look at the map and the entire NE is green, my little island in the South is green and the entire NW is either red or gray. Such a sad state for the NW isn't it?Nurelco02:27, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I've been operating in District NW-1 and things there are truly as terrible as the map shows. I actually went through 3 suburbs and every single building I saw was ruined. I am currently hiding outside of the area, waiting for the Eastonwood Ferals and friends, who have created a thing they like to call, "The Ring of Death", to back off.--Mich Fuchs 01:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

O come on Mich, jump in and enjoy the hell that is the "Dead North West" You like my tag line for it? I'm hopeing it will catch on ;) My main alt. is actually trying to takke back Dakers, and let me tell you thats like trying to make it snow in hell, but I'm committed....or maybe I should be? If you need a hand let me know on my wiki talk. I am working with a little group of friends that I've kinda pulled together. Some of our allies to. The Elson phone guys. Nice group. Have you put together a plan of attack for what your going to do there yet? Nurelco AKA --Mr NoName001 03:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Well I am actually just a Maltel employee in my spare time. Right now my main group is about to make a push into Darvall Heights, and if all goes well I should be able to swing by the phone masts of the area after we have secured a safe house.--Mich Fuchs 00:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Long Lost Phone Mast

It seems some friendly allies of Maltel have gotten the Tower back up in Dakers. Haveing a couple techs in the NW has been recieved with wide open arms by all the folks I contacted up there. I suppose with a little effort there might be an actuall continuall service up there. Go Maltel :) Nurelco05:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Greetings, delicious MalTel technicians

I'm an alleged Dead Air member who just got revived, so I thought I'd help y'all out until I get dead again. I've been living in NE-1, and no one's claimed it, so unless you don't want a mast-smasher like me hanging around, I'll start work there just as soon as I get enough harman human skills to be useful. -Ornithopter 20:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, we could use all the techs we can get... Are you concerned about conflicts of interests? Erik 16:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Not really, the conflict is pretty clear, but as long as I'm never a zombie and a survivor simultaneously, it should be fine. Mostly, I just wanted to make sure no one else was concerned about it. Sadly, I've been killed, so it wont be an issue for a while. -Ornithopter 21:32, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I come to offer an alliance from my group Zomcon and to steal your Archive Template. (Thanks!)--Airborne88^T|ZC|MI|E! 02:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Are you a equal opitunnity employer?

Good Morning. My name is Runemasteryx and i would like to join your fine group. I am a zombie, but i would like to help out. i am gaining EXP to buy skills to be a survivor. would you employ me, and could i get rezzed to help out. i am in the south east area.

Roaming Technicians

Hope nobody minds, I alphabetized the list while I was adding myself.--Labine50 ^{MEMS | MHG} 03:27, 26 August 2008 (BST)

For you all!

	A FREE COOKIE
	John Killah has given All of MalTel a cookie for doing a great job of keeping Malton's Masts working.

Current Group Activity

Just out of curiosity, is MalTel still up and running? Or is it... down, and not running? James.Denholm 08:58, 4 September 2009 (BST)

Roaming Technicians 2

due to the inactivity in the maltel forums (no post since 6 month), i added myself on the list of technicians... i hope nobody minds -CrazyKraut - 10 September 2009, 15:30 (CEST)

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Dentonside/Denners Tower Mast

I am hoping to get this mast operational at some point in the future considering I can't remember the last time it was operational and it would be useful to have it working again.

Yours sincerely - --Badwolf robotics-^{-talk-Dentonside Power-} 03:02, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I'm on the opposite side of Malton right now. Please be assured that the first available technician will be dispatched to assist you. If no one else, I'll head over there when I've finished up in the Rose District. -Ornithopter (Talk | contribs) 23:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

GSGM 2010

	Group Confirmed.
	This group was confirmed active. Thank you for your reply.

Just our yearly census to see which groups are still active. Are you? --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 07:08, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I am, but I think I might be the only one here. -Ornithopter (Talk | contribs) 00:13, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

I am back again. -Meridian100 15:16, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Good enough for me. --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 09:20, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

My main character is out there once again,..doing his duty,.. you're surely not the only one Ornithopter, so in a way MalTel is still active. Tnx for confirming Maverick.. ;) --Vykos ^CMS-Meta 13:45, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Hey there, I was hoping your group is still active. I want to try to help the effort. I'm currently stocking up in Ackland Mall, soon to move for Strutt Towers, soon I should be able to tune into the emergency frequency. --Radaeron 1600 3rd March 2010