Suggestion Buff Diplomacy Rules

[Darth Metus]

This one was inspired by the Galactic Alliance:

Buff Diplomacy Threads.

Back in the day, faction mergers were a lot easier than they are now. If two majors, let's say OPA and CIS, wanted to merge, we'd just need to do two votes and our clouds became one. Bam. Now, that was previously abused as you can imagine - dead factions would just hop clouds onto active ones and the map swelled. I'm not looking to go back to that - but what I am looking for is a little bit of mercy in terms of the Diplomacy thread requirements.

Simply put, dominioning a planet and then having to re-dominion it with your neighbor doesn't exactly scream "dynamic map" to me. And with that being the temperature of the room, here's my suggestion:

Major factions may give or exchange up to four hexes per diplomacy thread. Typical length for a diplomacy thread is at least 50 posts of collaborative effort.

Now, why does this work?

For one, Collaborative Effort means that if Faction A did 40 posts and Faction B did 10, it's a no go. And, thanks to major faction check-ins, dead or horrendously inactive factions are not a persistent factor on the map.

This would, in my mind, make treaties a viable option IC as well. Whilst also making mergers between equally active factions not so strenuous. My God I felt for the GA so hard during that Diplo-spree.

I'd also be open to a tier system for Diplomacy threads, where 50 posts gets you 1-2 to give/exchange and 100 posts gets you 3-4 to give/exchange. What do y'all think?

 

[Ryv]

The diplo system is awful. Having worked through the diplo stuff recently, I support this wholeheartedly.

If a game's mechanics aren't enjoyable to interact with, they should ultimately be changed.

 

[Kurayami Bloodborn]

Not sure. I like the overall idea but maybe an increase to 50 posts collaborative per hex traded. That way it would be equal to Dominion effort put in by most majors. My 2 cents, take it or leave it.

 

[The Red of Sinner]

I'm Romeo Sin, and I support this idea

 

[Republic Engineering]

A tiered system would be interesting to see, and if the impossible happens where a suggestion of mine gets implemented - there's a chance that it could be buffed even more in a similar fashion to how contagious assault works for invasions.

No matter what changes come to pass in the end, the present diplomacy system is harder to work with than pulling teeth. So, at this point, I'd be happy with anything other than what we have now. lol

 

[Darth Metus]

Kurayami Bloodborn

That's the current ruleset my guy, 50 posts between the two factions

 

[Agrippa]

Anything that allows major factions more/easier control over their hexes is a good idea.

 

[Fatty]

I support this change greatly

 

[Kairi Leidias]

All for this. The game was really fun when the GR had the Senate. It was a reaaaaaaal hoot.

EDIT: I felt back then, that Senators and Representatives of planetary bodies were just as powerful (In terms of meaningfulness) as Jedi, Sith, etc.

Darth Metus

 

[Tathra Khaeus]

I support this fully.

 

[Dak]

Please. I beg.

 

[Darth Metus]

Valiens Nantaris seeing a lot of positive responses across the board here, is this something you guys can look into? <3

 

[Adron Malvern]

I'm 100% for this because it's adding a dynamic to the map-game that isn't just war.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

Darth Metus
Do me a proposal up in this thread.

I think the ability to transfer up to 5 hexes in a thread, the amount graded by the collaborative participation, has merit. Maybe 30 posts per hex?

And it need not go all one way. If someone has one planet you want but you have one they want that should be possible to transfer, even if it's a bit more fiddly.

 

[Darth Metus]

Valiens Nantaris Sir I think you're onto something, and I couldn't agree more:

A major faction can engage in diplomacy with another under the following conditions:

- A maximum of five hexes per thread can be given or exchanged.

- The thread would need to demonstrate collaborative effort between the two parties. A standard effort is 30 posts per hex given or exchanged.

I'm no guru with font colors and rules making, but if this is how it was entered into the book I'd be one happy muffin.

How do y'all feel about this? Good? Bad? Ugly?

 

[Kurayami Bloodborn]

Darth Metus I can get behind that suggestion.

 

[Credius Nargath]

I support this, even if it's because I know we'll be doing this sooner rather than later anyway

looks at Dak

 

[Ellie Mors]

I feel like this would work well for a way to do treaties and such, and for absorbing very small factions into bigger ones, but I don't think it'd be a suitable stand-in for a merging option.

That being said, I do like this idea for the things I mentioned, and I will definitely be trying to make use of this in the future if it gets approved.