Feedback If you gatekeep planets you're whack

[Tefka]

These are hypotheticals.

Look there is room to gatekeep. If a new member joins, starts a NABOO INVASION thread, and solo invades and declares himself King of Naboo, I think it's fair game for a Naboo faction to be like, uh, report this guy. At that point I don't even fault a Naboo faction for not communicating prior to reporting, because it's a pretty white and black situation.

If a gal invades Tython, installs their own Jedi Council, declares the old one dead.. There is room to maneuver, there, I think. But it's still not going to go how the new member wants. While I would prefer communication, I also understand shotgunning a report and just letting the RPJs/Admins deal with it. Seems a bit of an extreme case.

If a member invades Mandalore, declares themselves Mandalore, kills the Alor Council... again, room to maneuver, but pretty much the same.

However.

If a guy is roleplaying on a planet, minding their own business, doing maybe some criminal rp, some podracing rp... if they get a friend request on Discord, and then an OOC message on Discord that "hey you should mention our faction" or "hey you're not respecting our planet" or "hey you can't roleplay there unless you join our faction", that's the cringiest, most whackest, most redacted poodoo I've ever heard of in my life.

Do you even like to roleplay, at that point? Holy self-insert, Batman.

Please don't do this, please touch grass, please welcome our new writers into Chaos by being welcoming, gracious, and thankful to have people to write with.

Sit down and be humble.

Even if ya'll is a major, ur planetary stewards at best. Chaos, the community, is king.

 

[Jonyna Si]

I've put a lot of work into individual canon planets of my own hyperfixation. I think it's pretty well known at this point that I'm 'That Cathar Writer'.

If someone makes a Cathar character, I wanna be the first to welcome them and shill my shit. I'm not gonna apologize for that, nor do I think it's wrong for anyone else to do that. Planetary hyperfixations are fine in my opinion if you keep it as an optional alternatively to canon, and let's be real, the only reason codex subs stay relevant is if you keep shilling them to the rest of the community, else they get forgotten in two weeks under the hundreds of other subs people make.

But I always do it as a 'hey, here's an in for your character, and some neat lore to boot.'

And if they tell me 'nah, I'ma do my own thing', I shrug and let them have their little corner of the planet. As long as they aren't burning my shit to the ground, it shouldn't bother me that they don't want to use my stuff.

On the flipside, a while back a bunch of sith writers used a location sub I had made as a basis for a thread. I reached out, asked what they were up to, and when they told me 'yeah, it's just a social thread', I just threw a thumbs up and let them have their fun. I do think a level of hesitancy with your codex planets/locations is fine, but again, don't be that guy who tells people that you're not allowed to RP on some tree you made 6 months ago.

I've seen it though. People get way too worked up because all of a sudden, a planet is being dommed by a major that they had declared as 'theirs'. People who say they want to ignore the map game and just write Minors, then when the map game comes to their little neck of the woods, they get all pissy.

Because they don't actually want to ignore the map, they just don't want to/can't put in the effort to go Major, so they pretend they're major anyways and flaunt themselves around like they are.

I get it, ya know. Going major, and being a major faction owner is a lot of work, and not for everyone. I've had talks with former MFOs who have told me how draining it is, and how much effort it takes.

But we can't act like minors have that weight. We can't go around pretending that our little two person factions have the same level of power as the SO or ME.

The map is there to dictate who has put in the effort to show they can interest the rest of the community enough to give them the privilege to go major, and get all the benefits of doing so. That includes the ability to say 'hey, these planets are mine now, because that's the story we want to tell'.

If you're not willing to put in that effort? Well then you don't get those benefits, and I've seen plenty of people who wish to live in denial of that fact.

 

[Bastila Sal-Soren]

I always like to remember it as different people become custodians of a planets story at different times, and Star Wars Chaos wouldn't be what it is without this incredible collaboration between so many different people. What they do when it is their turn is entirely up to them and people need to realise that 99.9% of writers have never actually read any of your lore subs or threads.

 

[Kitter Bitters]

Honestly if someone shows up on Coruscant tomorrow and writes they blow it up with the og Death Star then hats off to them. It shouldn’t influence the rest of the community. It’s just a one off story and people having fun.

Major factions are great. They give us all a backdrop to include in our stories and give us all an anchoring point so the galaxy feels real and agreed upon. But it’s difficult to keep up with everything that happens, especially if you are a new writer. Major factions are also ran by a select few writers.

I have been at places where a select few try to control how others write and it's toxic af. If you and 20 other people form a major faction and all agree to tell the same story then awesome, tell that story. But if Bob and Sally want to tell a different one on their own then they can as well. Just ignore each other and have fun.

We are all here because we love the same movies and the same universe. We all deserve to be a part of the magic.

 

[Ala Quin]

OP is certifiably unwhack

 

[Alan]

Where's RC212 and his thread/planet altering nukes?

Whenever someone talks about doing out of pocket stuff to planets or locations I still think about that guy. Hope he's doing well wherever he is. That's the kind of stuff we should avoid, but really I think planets and Star Wars is pretty littered with examples of "people on planets where they're not supposed to be cause they snuck in there".

Infact, that's the plot point of some of the movies.

 

[Ran Serys]

 

[Thelma Goth]

If someone showed up on my planet I’d beg them to blow it up