Question Eternal Fleet Mandate clarification

[Vren Rook]

I love the premise of Eternal Fleet Mandate - what's better than a roaming fleet in the Galaxy? It's such a strong IC story-telling mandate of a fleet moving through the Galaxy doing whatever its story is supposed to be.

I would just like to ask for some confirmation regarding the OOC of the mandate:

When the Capital Hex is to be moved, does it need a supporting thread every time? As per general rules, moving Capital Hexes requires a Diplomacy thread of x amount posts - would this mandate supersede that rule? Can we do a PvE thread (Dominion/Populate/Junction) to motivate the move IC instead, seeing, as per the current mandate, there isn't exactly a cap on the amount of times you can move (which is pretty powerful, so I personally feel that to balance this, we can at least do a PvE thread to motivate the move every map update - seeing as you are capped on 7 hexes and won't exactly update the Map Update unless it's to move capital).

This is just to clarify - the mandate is great as a story-telling mandate and is nerfed on its actual movement - I just want to check as it would be cool for IC if there's an actual thread motivation for the capital move - in this mandate's case - a PvE thread (same as gaining a normal hex) is done to motivate the move of IC ships.

Would it be ok to motivate it with a PvE thread instead of actual Diplomacy? Does the mandate supersede the Rule of moving Capital?

 

[Srina Talon]

Vren Rook

Hello - Just letting you know that we did see this. One of us will respond shortly. Thank you for asking!

 

[Srina Talon]

I love the premise of Eternal Fleet Mandate - what's better than a roaming fleet in the Galaxy? It's such a strong IC story-telling mandate of a fleet moving through the Galaxy doing whatever its story is supposed to be.

I would just like to ask for some confirmation regarding the OOC of the mandate:

When the Capital Hex is to be moved, does it need a supporting thread every time? As per general rules, moving Capital Hexes requires a Diplomacy thread of x amount posts - would this mandate supersede that rule? Can we do a PvE thread (Dominion/Populate/Junction) to motivate the move IC instead, seeing, as per the current mandate, there isn't exactly a cap on the amount of times you can move (which is pretty powerful, so I personally feel that to balance this, we can at least do a PvE thread to motivate the move every map update - seeing as you are capped on 7 hexes and won't exactly update the Map Update unless it's to move capital).

This is just to clarify - the mandate is great as a story-telling mandate and is nerfed on its actual movement - I just want to check as it would be cool for IC if there's an actual thread motivation for the capital move - in this mandate's case - a PvE thread (same as gaining a normal hex) is done to motivate the move of IC ships.

Would it be ok to motivate it with a PvE thread instead of actual Diplomacy? Does the mandate supersede the Rule of moving Capital?

Staff are currently looking at this mandate more in-depth because the wording is off and the function is a bit strange when compared with the other Mandates...We think there's a fix, but it may take a little bit longer to get there. I know the Iron Covenant is eager to use it and jump while the "iron" (pun intended) is hot, but if our deliberation is slowing your story, you are 100% welcome to choose a new mandate in the interim.

Thank you ahead of time for your patience and understanding.

 

[Vren Rook]

Srina Talon thank you getting back to me. Are we allowed to wait for this mandate and just do IC roaming for the interim - no invasions or anything planned for now, just story? Or are we required to choose a new mandate for the time-being?

Why I ask is due to Eternal Fleet currently not allowing to grow past 7 hexes, so if we choose a different mandate for the interim, how would we be able to lose gained hexes through that new mandate again? With Concession? As a faction, we're not exactly fussed with territory gain, seeing as we're fleet based mostly IC.

 

[Srina Talon]

Srina Talon thank you getting back to me. Are we allowed to wait for this mandate and just do IC roaming for the interim - no invasions or anything planned for now, just story? Or are we required to choose a new mandate for the time-being?

Why I ask is due to Eternal Fleet currently not allowing to grow past 7 hexes, so if we choose a different mandate for the interim, how would we be able to lose gained hexes through that new mandate again? With Concession? As a faction, we're not exactly fussed with territory gain, seeing as we're fleet based mostly IC.

You are 100% welcome to wait but you wouldn't be able to use the Mandate until it gets cleared up. I just wanted to give you the option to switch off if waiting didn't appeal to you. If you gained hexes and then chose to re-take Eternal Fleet you'd just have to choose the hexes you want to keep and we'd adjust from there.

There is "consolidation" but that's a bit redundant.