Is the map game really necessary?

[Ashin Varanin]

Cloudbreaks make tons of sense IC, as anyone who's ever looked at a sector map could tell you. There's no immersion issue there.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

[member="Tefka"]

I believe the map game of tracking planets with influence clouds isn't something that's necessary here on Star Wars Chaos. But I do think it's a great feature not a lot of sites out there have, I believe its one of the distinctive characteristics of Chaos because not a lot of sites out there are so dedicated in keeping their members up to date with whats going on the galactic stage, and that's what the map game does is keep them informed, in an easy way. Now that being said if you did away with the map game it's not a necessary feature, it's not like getting rid of the Open Role Playing and Private Role Playing forums, if you removed the feature the site is still going to exist with or without the map. While it will make tracking galactic borders harder, and people might end up making maps of their own anyway, we'll still go on and endure as a community.

 

[Taa Nul]

[member="Tefka"]

I feel the map is a big part of things here at Chaos, and I enjoy seeing the current state of the galaxy at large using it. I use it as a point of reference regularly for my RP. Plus, y'know, can't wait to see my custom planet on there as soon as it's updated.

 

[Krayn]

I like the map.
Most of the concern seems to be around tendrils and cloud breaks which are natural to what it is.

If anything did need a fix you could implement that if a tendril is broken and therefor would usually wipe a large swath of territory that it instead 'separates' the land itself. If the faction holds entire hexes they remain under their influence despite being 'cutoff'. However all these planets are now open to Rebellion whenever or however much like a recalled major faction, only it is a part of it and not the whole territory. Just my thoughts.

Other than that, I love the map. It makes things colourful.

 

[Darth Kentarch]

Some people are saying that they need a map as a reference.
Check this out: http://www.swgalaxymap.com/
Have fun.

 

[Onrai]

Without the map game, major factions have no point of existing because there's no scale, no way to damage their claims to planets, none of that. Is the map game a load of poodoo that creates immense amounts of drama that piss myself and other members of the site off to no end? You bet your ass it is, but it's also the only thing that really drives people forward faction-wise and stops the stagnation.

Cloudbreaks make tons of sense IC, as anyone who's ever looked at a sector map could tell you. There's no immersion issue there.

The Confederacy didn't instantly lose claim to half their territory when the Union split them in half by taking Atlanta. Why should factions suffer that fate here?

 

[Darth Kentarch]

Instead of using bad ww2 or American Civil War references that may offend someone or cause this thread to really heat up, let use a canon example of split up influence spheres in Wars in the star wars universe.
Check it out: MAP HERE

 

[Grrwunhoooll Agaburry]

[member="Tefka"]

We need Trump Doge to destroy the Map Game and its politics.

 

[Captain Jordan]

Instead of using bad ww2 or American Civil War references that may offend someone or cause this thread to really heat up, let use a canon example of split up influence spheres in Wars in the star wars universe.
Check it out: MAP HERE

Can we make a 7 Years War reference? Like how the British capture of Louisbourg didn't immediately destroy all French settlements further inland?

Clone Wars is a good reference, though. Especially because of the nature of hyperspace makes moving troops between isolated sectors risky but possible. It actually mirrors many of the strategic ventures from Earth-based wars which sought to split up enemy territory in order to force the war through attrition or surround small clumps of forces to contain or capture the territory within. It's a good model to follow here as well, but I think we'd have to add some new rules to make the best use of it. For example, cloud "breaking" may not immediately destroy the faction held territory on either side, but the losing faction would need to engage in a dominion-like thread in order to demonstrate how the fractured territory holds on. So we might get some Berlin Airlift-type stories, or the territory may succumb to disarray and disorder, and secede.

 

[Onrai]

Instead of using bad ww2 or American Civil War references that may offend someone or cause this thread to really heat up

Kentarch. Man. I respect you a lot. But you've got to be kidding me here. You think people on here are so disturbingly thin-skinned that me just mentioning the Confederacy, in a perfectly valid comparison to the cloudbreak system, will offend someone? Those sorts of people get run off by Kaine within the first week after he tortures them into new slaves.

 

[Tyberius Fel]

Cloudbreaking exists because literally no other meaningful strategical operations are possible in the current manner in which warfare operates.

 

[Anna Song]

"Never go full IC."