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I like to think I've personally gotten pretty good at writing rules for Chaos. I think a lot of our stuff looks good, makes sense for the most part. Functional. And over the years, has risen the bar for my colleagues to also come up with cool ideas. But there's a lot of stress on it, sometimes. To be good, look eloquent, be understandable. Be simple. So, we instituted a process of review, among the Administrators. It's pretty much their number 1 job, when it comes to rule writing. Review. Discuss. Cover my back, have me cover theirs, on documentation.
Balance things.
I hate Balance.
So, for this update, we just stopped doing it.
This isn't a video game. Let's just get a little nutty, damn the complaints.
No Mandates have been changed.
13 new Mandates have been added.
Factions | Mandates
MANDATES Mandates are unique characteristics that may be adopted by a Major Faction that provide the Major Faction a bonus. CHOOSING A MANDATE A Major Faction Owner must declare his/her Mandate in the Map Update Thread upon their Faction...
2024 Mandates
12. Capital Gains
"When solving problems, dig at the roots." -Anthony J. D'Angelo
13. Kingmaker
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." – Henry Ford
14. Techno Boom
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Krutch
15. Strength Of The Matriarchy
"We can endure much more than we think we can." -Frida Kahlo
16. Functional Parity
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is no liberty without it." -Frances Wright
17. Megacorpopolis
"Greed is good." -Gordon Gekko
18. Extragalactic Planetary
"The probability is almost certain." -Buzz Aldrin
"I am the captain of my soul." -William Ernest Henley
20. Wild Magic
"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design." -Richard Dawkins
21. Eternal Fleet
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." -Unknown
"To steal from the Empire, you just walk in like you belong." -Cassian Andor
23. Beyond The Void
"Nothing exists but atoms and the void." -Democritus
24. Wrath Of God
"Damnation does not slumber." -Jonathan Edwards
12. Capital Gains
"When solving problems, dig at the roots." -Anthony J. D'Angelo
- Strength: Each hex in this Major Faction's influence cloud is a Major Faction Capital Hex.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction declares an Invasion, this Major Faction may relocate the defending Major Faction's Capital Hex.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction succeeds in defending a Major Faction Capital Hex, it may nullify three non-Capital hexes of the invading Major Faction's influence cloud.
13. Kingmaker
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." – Henry Ford
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction completes a Junction with another Major Faction, they may claim an additional hex for free.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a completed Dominion to the Map Update thread, they may gift an additional legal hex to another Major Faction of their choosing.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a completed Dominion to the Map Update thread, they may begin a Junction with a Major Faction regardless of limits or rules.
14. Techno Boom
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Krutch
- Strength: In the place of Dominion threads, this Major Faction may submit four quality Factory submissions by four unique writers completed that month to the Map Update thread.
- Strength: In place of Invasion threads, this Major Faction may opt instead for a Technology Race. During a Technology Race, each faction submits technology, vehicle, starship, lore, or location submissions with their Major Faction listed as the Affiliation in the submission. In lieu of roleplaying in the Invasion, writers post a single link to a submitted submission, with roleplay writing optional. The Major Faction with the most submissions submitted within 30 days is declared victor. A successful Invasion will obey normal rules, but upon failure to win, the defending Major Faction is granted two free hexes.
15. Strength Of The Matriarchy
"We can endure much more than we think we can." -Frida Kahlo
- Strength: Each PvE thread that rewards hexes rewards double that many hexes. This only triggers if the overwhelming amount (66%>) of characters involved in the thread are all female.
16. Functional Parity
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is no liberty without it." -Frances Wright
- Strength: This Major Faction may select another Major Faction to be listed as a Target of this mandate. Whenever the Target gains a hex for any reason, this Major Faction also gains a hex so long as it owns less hexes than the Target.
- Weakness: Whenever the Target loses one hex or more, this Major Faction loses as many hexes.
17. Megacorpopolis
"Greed is good." -Gordon Gekko
- Strength: This faction may pay 100,000 credits to a SWRP Staff Administrator to gain a hex for their faction, up to a maximum of six times per month. This does not count as a Dominion.
18. Extragalactic Planetary
"The probability is almost certain." -Buzz Aldrin
- Strength: This Major Faction may target planetless hexes outside the blue Galaxy.
- Weakness: So long as this Major Faction exists on the map, other Major Factions may invade and own hexes an Extragalactic Planetary mandate previously owned. Once this Major Faction leaves the map entirely, other Major Factions may not continue to own hexes outside the blue Galaxy unless another Major Faction has this mandate.
"I am the captain of my soul." -William Ernest Henley
- Strength: Once this mandate is chosen, this Major Faction loses all hexes it doesn't share with another Major Faction and targets another Major Faction's influence cloud to "share". For the purposes of existing as a Major Faction, the target influence cloud is also considered this Major Faction's influence cloud.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a Dominion, Junction, or Invasion to the Map Update thread, it must list its Mandate, its Major Faction name, and the Major Faction it shares an influence cloud with. Successful Dominons, Junctions, and Invasions add hexes to the shared influence cloud. PvE thread and PvP thread limits are not shared between Major Factions that share an influence cloud.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction changes its mandate from Horcrux to another mandate, it may reapply to be a new Major Faction. If accepted by the SWRP Staff Team, this Major Faction will start with the number of hexes it gained while sharing an influence cloud. These must be new hexes, as the target will keep all hexes gained during this Major Faction's tenure as a Horcrux.
- Weakness: This Major Faction must keep track of the hexes it gains while in a shared influence cloud, though the Major Faction Owner may periodically request this number be added next to it in the Major Faction Mandate Update list. This only includes hexes gained by this faction, not any other faction in the shared influence cloud.
- Weakness: This Major Faction may not possess its own influence cloud while it shares another's.
- Weakness: This Major Faction does not have a Capital Hex.
- Weakness: This Major Factions' target may invade or annihilate its own hexes. If this Major Faction loses the Invasion/Annihilation, it is disbanded and may not reclaim hexes through this mandate.
- Weakness: If this Major Faction or its target loses any Invasion, the attacking Major Faction may opt to remove this Major Faction's mandate. If lost in this manner, this Major Faction may not reclaim hexes through this mandate.
20. Wild Magic
"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design." -Richard Dawkins
- Strength: Each time this Major Faction submits a Map Update, they may make a request in their update to have the SWRP Staff Administrator add or remove a hex from any Major Faction on the map, to include their own. This is decided by flip of the coin.
- Strength: The Major Faction Owner of this Major Faction may determine the success of any PvP thread their Major Faction is involved in by requesting a public flip of a coin, performed by a SWRP Staff Administrator.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a completed Junction, a SWRP Staff Administrator will flip two coins. If both heads, this Major Faction will receive an extra hex. If both tails, another Major Faction in the Junction will receive an extra hex at the Administrator's discretion. If mismatched, no extra hexes are rewarded.
- Weakness: Each time this Major Faction makes a request using the Wild Magic mandate, this Major Faction may lose any number of hexes as determined randomly by the coin flip of an SWRP Staff Administrator. This may only happen a maximum of once per month.
21. Eternal Fleet
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." -Unknown
- Strength: Each time this Major Faction submits a Map Update, the Major Faction Owner may opt to move it's Major Faction Capital Hex up to two hexes away from its original starting position. If the target hex is owned by another Major Faction, unless it is the opposing Major Faction's Capital Hex, this Major Faction nullifies that hex then gains it.
- Strength: Whenever this Major Faction moves its Major Faction Capital Hex, it gains all hexes not adjacent to it's Major Faction Capital Hex that do not belong to another Major Faction's influence cloud.
- Strength: There is no limit on how many Invasions this Major Faction may simultaneously initiate.
- Weakness: This Major Faction may not exceed more than 7 hexes, to include its Major Faction Capital Hex. If any event supercedes this due to another mandate, the Major Faction may not gain more hexes until it has fewer than 7.
- Weakness: Whenever this Major Faction moves its Major Faction Capital Hex, it loses all hexes not adjacent to it's Major Faction Capital Hex.
- Weakness: This Major Faction may only initiate Invasions on hexes adjacent to it's Major Faction Capital Hex.
"To steal from the Empire, you just walk in like you belong." -Cassian Andor
- Neutral: This Mandate may only be chosen by a newly established Major Faction as its first Mandate, and must be announced during its Major Faction application.
- Strength: This Major Faction may choose three connected hexes a Major Faction owns as it's starting location, with one as its Major Faction Capital.
- Weakness: This Mandate may only target Major Factions that occupy 12 or more hexes.
23. Beyond The Void
"Nothing exists but atoms and the void." -Democritus
- Strength: This Major Faction owns an artifact that can be activated in one of two ways during an Invasion or Annihilation.
- It can dampen the usage of the Force, nullifying it to negligible levels.
- It can dampen the usage of any announced technology, forcing ships down from the sky.
- Weakness: The artifact can only be used while this Mandate is active.
24. Wrath Of God
"Damnation does not slumber." -Jonathan Edwards
- Strength: Annihilations this Major Faction initiates will count instead as three simultaneous Invasions against up to three target Major Factions, with starting and ending hexes decided by the Major Faction Owner. If the Annihilation is won, all three Invasions are won, and all legal hexes between this Major Faction's cloud and the target hexes are gained.
I like to think I've personally gotten pretty good at writing rules for Chaos. I think a lot of our stuff looks good, makes sense for the most part. Functional. And over the years, has risen the bar for my colleagues to also come up with cool ideas. But there's a lot of stress on it, sometimes. To be good, look eloquent, be understandable. Be simple. So, we instituted a process of review, among the Administrators. It's pretty much their number 1 job, when it comes to rule writing. Review. Discuss. Cover my back, have me cover theirs, on documentation.
Balance things.
I hate Balance.
So, for this update, we just stopped doing it.
This isn't a video game. Let's just get a little nutty, damn the complaints.
No Mandates have been changed.
13 new Mandates have been added.
