Suggestion I Am Once Again Asking

[LaoTzu]

Hey now…..Half asses ideas is how we got here Tefka

Jokes aside, a rebellion aspect is nice to poke the bear of major factions. Or at least some sort of causing problems on various planets. Could be me though. Could be due to Major factions not responding to whatever the month is for them and manifest in any rebellions as a help to the PCs actually rebelling in a thread.

Or just group wanting to see another burn not saying any faction would help another faction burn indirectly.

 

[Tefka]

Well, if you take into account the full context of the sentence and not just the part where I say people were making half-assed ideas...

Rebellions instantly became a singular focus with no safety net, pause button, or delay. Even worse, it took the roleplay focus off longstanding factions and placed it on smaller shortlived half-assed ideas. Its not good for membership nor member retainment.

What I'm saying here is the blame couldn't be placed on the players because the system, created by me, encouraged it. So the system had to go. Sometimes you can ban/remove players who're upsetting a system because the majority gets it, and sometimes you can't really blame the players that much because they're following a path the system is telling them to follow.

It was like 8 years ago so my memory is rusty, but I didn't at the time believe players would follow that path, but they did, lol. I personally think proxy wars are pretty immersive, but they're also pretty unmanageable. The average writer comes here because of the slow paced relaxed rp we provide, and keeping up with 100 alts of a 100 writers making a 100 minors that can rebel is the antithesis to that.

 

[Tefka]

And we tweaked the system like 3x before I came to the conclusion that it's just not possible, yet again, and as I always knew, to give a path to minors on the map.

So stop asking, I gave it my all, it is incompatible with Chaos. It is asking the sun to shine at night, it is asking for water to not be wet, it is asking for up to be down and left to be right. It cannot happen.

I know you want it, I obviously wanted it too, or at least I very much wanted ya'll to have what you wanted. But for the thousandth time, it cannot work. Even if we tore down every system we have to build it all back up, it still doesn't work.

It will never work.

You will never have it.

Make your peace.

I know you have and this is me just beating a very dead horse but make your peace again. The mandate is the compromise. Minor factions don't belong on the map, they never will, you will never get single player chaos mode.

It's over, gg.

 

[Annasari]

Tbf never mad that staff wanted to rework the mechanic, but it did bring about something unique to the map. Back when I was staffing GA, we really loved the idea of a civil war storyline that would actually tear apart the blob we had built rather than let it stagnate, but without rebellions it wasn’t as plausible. Really glad to see the new mandate, it’s a great compromise.