What SWRP Rule would you like to remove and or amend?: General Factory Rules - 9. Using submissions by other writers requires proof of their
permission if marked Closed Market.
Why do you want it removed or amended?: While I understand the need to protect the copyright of writers creating new stuff, I think the rules have leaned way too far into that direction. It makes little sense that items that are reasonably available in the Galaxy cannot be acquired just because a writer wants to OOCly keep it restricted. Or the writer has left the board or has been banned. It should be possible to balance respect for people's copyright with reasonable usage of already approved submissions in the roleplay. As long as nobody tries to claim they created the submission or copy-paste a version for themselves it should be entirely okay.
What would you replace it with? Either remove it entirely or since the resurgence of development threads, it could be replaced with a requirement for a 'heist' thread or something to show ICly how someone acquired the item.
What SWRP Rule would you like to remove and or amend?: Civilian vessels/stations are defined as having an armament rating of 'None' and, if they have a hangar rating, should not be able to field a compliment of starfighters in a combat capacity.
Why do you want it removed or amended?: Why can't a civilian station or vessel have armament? Why can't they have a bunch of retrofitted automated drones/starfighters? Why does it matter?
What would you replace it with?: Remove it.
What SWRP Rule would you like to remove and or amend?: For rules on what ships can be owned, operated and manufactured by a Major Faction, Minor Faction, Company or an Individual, please refer to the following table.
Why do you want it removed or amended?: Remove the table entirely and allow any Minor Faction, Company, Single Writer, Major Faction to field whatever ship and fleet size they want. Why not? Fleeting has always been the nichest of niche on Chaos. Let people just write their power fantasies if they get fun out of it. Who does it hurt if Darth Whatchamacallit is able to have his own sector fleet or what not? Almost nobody is fleeting anyway! And if he starts trying to wave around the fleet and ruin the time of other people, they have always been able to just ignore his roleplay anyway.
What would you replace it with?: Remove all restrictions entirely. It's only there to curb people's roleplay in the name of 'balance' when almost nobody fleets on Chaos anyway.
What SWRP Rule would you like to remove and or amend?: Only a
Major Faction has the resources necessary to role-play having a large fleet, army, etc.
Why do you want it removed or amended?: This was always a bit of a vague rule and doesn't seem to have any purpose besides give Major Factions some kind of higher status.
What would you replace it with?: Either remove it entirely or amend it to something like 'A Major Faction will as a common rule have more resources to call upon then solitary Minor Faction and Companies'. That way you won't get a single writer Minor Faction throwing out multi-system armies to harass a Major Faction they don't like, but it doesn't unduly limit a big corporation or even a minor faction from fielding large fleets, armies for their roleplay.
What SWRP Rule would you like to remove and or amend?:
- 10. SSD/Dreadnought/Superweapons require Admin approval. (Superweapons can be kept restricted however)
- Acquiring a Super Star Destroyer / Dreadnought will be restricted to Major Factions. Acquisition will follow Dominion rules.
- A major faction, upon completing their second dominion of the calendar month, may begin their third eligible Dominion as a SSD / Dreadnought dominion thread.
- A SSD/Dreadnought factory submission requires admin approval. They are not available for use until they have been approved.
- A unique SSD is permitted one extra point when balancing.
- No player may captain a SSD / Dreadnought without the Major Faction Owner's consent.
- If a Major Faction is recalled, merged into another Major Faction, or drops to minor, any SSD / Dreadnought created must be decommissioned and archived.
- While SSDs may be destroyed or scuttled, they cannot be stolen by an opposing Faction.
- Major Factions that are tied to mandates that prohibit rebellions are excluded from building SSDs or dreadnoughts.
Why do you want it removed or amended?: SSDs and Dreadnoughts since their introduction have never been a big deal on Chaos. They are mainly used as set pieces, locations and ways to enhance the roleplay. The restrictions mean it takes a lot of effort to create one, but they don't really offer anything you can't already do. So why the extra busywork? I'd say remove the SSD/Dreadnoughts system entirely and just scrap the upper limit of ship submissions. If someone wants a fancy big shiny warship... who does it exactly hurt if they can just submit it without extra hoops being jumped through?
What would you replace it with?: Remove it entirely and then remove the upper-limit for ship submissions, so people can decide themselves how big they want their ship(s) to be.
