L Admin
The Rebellion of Mimban brought up some good points I'm going to have Staff cover over the next couple of weeks, but I wanted to get out in front of this in my usual shotgun-the-wall-and-see-what-I-hit approach
1. Black Tie Syndicate got a Notification of Recall from Staff for being inactive. They decided to merge with the Mandalorian Empire and rebel as a "minor subfaction."
2. The leader of the Mandalorian Empire was informed there's no such thing as "minor subfactions", subfactions are all considered just part of a Major Faction, thus making it an illegitimate move.
3. I informed them if they wanted to rebel, I would allow it, but they'd have to cancel the merger and rebel as a Minor Faction. They can merge afterwards just fine.
4. The biggest talking point of the ability to rebel after immediately going Minor would be that there would need to be a time delay. I instructed them Sunday night, EST, was satisfactory. I leave it up to the factions to work that out if they want to.
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My biggest problem is a Major Faction sees a recall notice, knows what's going to happen, then utilizes the situation to their advantage by immediately going minor and rebelling for another Major Faction's gain. This is, in concept, okay with me. However, there needs to be a time delay to prevent them from shotgunning it. No Major Faction can just immediately drop itself to minor then rebel, so we're going to discuss with Staff about pushing some sort of time delay in this equation. It'd likely be just a mere 7 days, but it's enough of a buffer to prevent a Major Faction from hopping around the map constantly rebelling.
My second problem was obviously utilizing a subfaction as a minor faction. Staff will discuss defining verbage in our rules to mark this as illegal. No subfaction of a Major Faction may declare a rebellion, because they're not a minor faction at that point. They're part of a Major Faction. A subfaction =/= A Minor Faction.
Thirdly, mergers are getting more symbolic and less strategic, so I'm going to sit down with the Factory Admin sometime soon and discuss if we can devise an alternative method for transitioning a faction's resources to another faction/party/company.
Nothing's set in stone, I just wanted all parties involved in this attempted Rebellion to understand why it is being delayed.
TL;DR: Dredge's faction was sinking so Isley picked it up and threw it at the Republic. The site Administrators caught it and are currently playing hot potato.
1. Black Tie Syndicate got a Notification of Recall from Staff for being inactive. They decided to merge with the Mandalorian Empire and rebel as a "minor subfaction."
2. The leader of the Mandalorian Empire was informed there's no such thing as "minor subfactions", subfactions are all considered just part of a Major Faction, thus making it an illegitimate move.
3. I informed them if they wanted to rebel, I would allow it, but they'd have to cancel the merger and rebel as a Minor Faction. They can merge afterwards just fine.
4. The biggest talking point of the ability to rebel after immediately going Minor would be that there would need to be a time delay. I instructed them Sunday night, EST, was satisfactory. I leave it up to the factions to work that out if they want to.
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My biggest problem is a Major Faction sees a recall notice, knows what's going to happen, then utilizes the situation to their advantage by immediately going minor and rebelling for another Major Faction's gain. This is, in concept, okay with me. However, there needs to be a time delay to prevent them from shotgunning it. No Major Faction can just immediately drop itself to minor then rebel, so we're going to discuss with Staff about pushing some sort of time delay in this equation. It'd likely be just a mere 7 days, but it's enough of a buffer to prevent a Major Faction from hopping around the map constantly rebelling.
My second problem was obviously utilizing a subfaction as a minor faction. Staff will discuss defining verbage in our rules to mark this as illegal. No subfaction of a Major Faction may declare a rebellion, because they're not a minor faction at that point. They're part of a Major Faction. A subfaction =/= A Minor Faction.
Thirdly, mergers are getting more symbolic and less strategic, so I'm going to sit down with the Factory Admin sometime soon and discuss if we can devise an alternative method for transitioning a faction's resources to another faction/party/company.
Nothing's set in stone, I just wanted all parties involved in this attempted Rebellion to understand why it is being delayed.
TL;DR: Dredge's faction was sinking so Isley picked it up and threw it at the Republic. The site Administrators caught it and are currently playing hot potato.
