Staff Small Mandate Update [7/19/2025]

[Srina Talon]

Greetings!

As always, please forgive the late-night messages and announcements.

The SWRP Staff team has conducted a review of existing Faction Mandates and decided to retire several of them. This decision was made for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to redundancy, lack of usage, being obsolete, or being excessively convoluted. At this time, no new Mandates have been introduced.

The following Mandates have been put out to pasture:

• Self-Destruct (Convoluted, Anti-RP, No potential to be used.)
• Capital Gains (It's been turned off forever because it was broken; no one misses it. Capital gains who?)
• Extragalactic Planetary (Made obsolete by the new map.)
• Horcrux (Beautiful hot mess...But super convoluted and way too overpowered in comparison to the rest of the mandates.)
• How About You Hypergate This (We don't need another secondary cloud mandate.)

Updated Mandate Link

Thanks for your time!

 

[Vestra Tane]

I will mourn the death of Horcrux. It ruled. I understand why it needed to go, but I hope one day we get another faction-inside-a-faction mandate.

 

[Srina Talon]

I will mourn the death of Horcrux. It ruled. I understand why it needed to go, but I hope one day we get another faction-inside-a-faction mandate.

Apologies, we can put out flowers together in our grief... But feel free to brainstorm and add ideas here:

XOXO

You never know what might stick!

 

[Vazela]

Losing the Horcrux mandate sucks ngl.

 

[Linegrave]

Srina Talon

Hi! Our faction was strongly considering using the Horcrux mandate, because we are subterfuge focused and enjoyed the idea of basically hiding in another cloud until the time came to reveal ourselves. We already were in talks with another MF to set-up a joint story to facilitate this as well.

Is there any chance to tweak the mandate to bring it back? We didn't particularly care about the eventual hex gain we could reach through it, though it was a nice extra. So perhaps an avenue there to curb some of its excesses.

If the answer is no and the mandate cannot be brought back in any form, that's okay, but we figured we'd reach out and see if there were any options available.

 

[Srina Talon]

Linegrave

We do enjoy the idea of a "parasitic" mandate; it was a step in the right direction, but a new version may or may not come to pass. Even if it did, it likely wouldn't resemble what it was before because it was very convoluted and outclassed every other mandate twice over.

Even Functional Parity before the nerf.

Without a time frame to provide, I would suggest finding an alternative that you might find enjoyable if the drive to go Major comes up.

Please don't lose out on hype or hamstring yourself for the sake of a Mandate.

 

[Linegrave]

Srina Talon

Fair enough, thank you for the quick response!