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 Megacorpopolis is kinda broken

15. 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.

Yo this is kinda very broken. A faction using this can get three times the amount of hexes of any other faction in a month, no faction can keep up with that no matter how active they are. There's no downside to it, and its strength is just flat-out better than any other extra hex granting Mandate, it also can make a dead or dying faction appear to be more active than it actually is, expaning without actually adding any overarching story, it's just some person with a bunch of money buying territory.
 
I've had a problem with this for a while.

There's no incentive to actually invest into your faction with this, if you already have a character with a ridiculous amount of UC, which a good amount of people on this site do at this point.

No one can keep up with a mandate like this. It's not something that encourages story, and then just ignores the hexes they buy.
 
UC is gained by posting on Public and Private RP, so it is still based on activity, even if it’s not limited to current one. It also measures activity that is not necessarily on Faction Threads, but might still be relevant to the narrative, via Private Threads etc.

Additionally, 100K UC is a huge amount, I’ve been here on and off for 2 years and I don’t think I have that much between characters.

I think it’s fair to reward people for consistency and longevity.
 
It also measures activity that is not necessarily on Faction Threads, but might still be relevant to the narrative, via Private Threads etc.
Yes, but through the donation system, you can write a character with other factions, entirely unrelated to the faction in question.

So whatever activity is gaining you that UC, doesn't need to be related to the actual faction gaining the benefits.
 
It's a broken mandate. It stands far apart from the other mandates such as Codex or Factory mandates where the workload to acquire additional hexes is much more intensive. The ease of currency absorption through the currency of the mandate far outstrips that of posting by a mile. It should be brought in line with the other mandates, at the very least it should be far more expensive, and the reward a lot less. Or it should contain a weakness like the codex and factory mandates that reduce the amount of dominions you are able to do per month.

If it only added 1, maybe 2 hexes I would be alright with it, on the pretense that the amount of dominions per month is reduced by 1-2 planets, something to balance it out. That way if you buy 2 hexes, you can dominion one hex and it still evens out to 3 hexes per month. It affords the ability to freely pick up hexes if your faction doesn't have a good story for, so you can focus on the stories that most matter and the growth isn't overly excessive to where you can pull in over 9 hexes per month combined.

edit: Removed poor phrasing mentioned below in a quote, to refine it and make a more succinct refined position, i was previously struggling on the wording of.
 
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Due to the donation system you can have people freely donate currency between members.

this is not an issue, so I'd avoid making this argument. People working together means they're also using their activity together to bolster what their max currency cap is, even if they're not in the faction. The whole idea of a money sink is to absorb that activity, so we as Staff don't really care as long as that currency is earned - which it is, through posting.

If I argued against it, I'd stick to the point that the pacing of currency absorption runs laps around the pace of posting absorption. The currency sink of posting is far inflated versus the sink of currency absorption, which I think would be a much stronger argument.
 
Tefka Tefka Thats 100% on me struggling to phrase the ease of currency poorly in the argument and mentioning the wrong thing. Thats definitely a better way to approach it. Post currency vs the sink of currency absorption is unbalanced in the present mandate.
 
that means 600k for 6 hexes right? if 1 public post worth 1k UC (cmiiw), that means 100 public posts per hex. I don’t think that it’s underpriced.

however, I feel like an adjustment to, for example, two hexes max per month, would be fine.
In my opinion, it should be brought down in line with the other ones to grant a total of 4 hexes, either by only purchasing one extra hex and doing three or like the codex one where you can dom/populate/junction one hex and buy three. Rather than having the ability to gain nine hexes a month.
 
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Thats what I’m thinking at the very least an adjustment such as you can only purchase 1-2 hexes per month, however the drawback is it reduces your maximum dominions by an equal amount. That way it doesn’t outstrip the currency sink of posting by too much, it gives the freedom to get some free hexes but with an equal drawback.
 
Climbing on this argument bandwagon:

I can see the pros and cons of this mandate. Yes, it can especially help a new faction on the board bulk up quickly before switching mandates. It's really a neat thing for small and active factions to just gain a little body before doing what they wanna actually do. It can be used in a healthy way.

The problem with this mandate:

- Faction Staff are lazy - they'd rather keep this mandate than think of actual story for Doms, Pops or Junctions. Rather than just using the mandate to bulk up a little before switching, they just sit on this mandate and just garner hexes without story cause "I can have a big-a$$ cloud too without doing the bootwork for it"

- On the coat-tails of this: There's no story - you're only gaining those hexes and then not doing jack with them ever again. Where's the story for this expansion? How is your IC populace of that planet dealing with the occupation/governmental grab? Is there a cult or terrorist group in the shadows of this planet that really don't like bowing to a government? All of those avenues just get brushed aside cause "I want that hex before X-faction gets it but I don't want to post, that'll take too long".

TLDR - good mandate - it's not broken. It just gets abused by lazy people. It's not the mandate's fault in and of itself. People just need to get off their butts and actually do shiz with their factions.
 
if it's not broken how's it getting abused lmao
Same way a gun gets abused - the user's intent. If the user uses it right, it's not gonna blow up in your face.

By just hogging space and not doing anything with it, the mandate gets abused.

The mandate doesn't say "USE ME FOREVER". People are just lazy and don't want to be creative.
 
Same way a gun gets abused - the user's intent. If the user uses it right, it's not gonna blow up in your face.

By just hogging space and not doing anything with it, the mandate gets abused.

The mandate doesn't say "USE ME FOREVER". People are just lazy and don't want to be creative.

that was a horrible analogy because IRL guns are broken and OP as fuck rotfl

like if you had to balance the game of life you would have 1000x suggestion threads about how to beat another gun you need a gun but I want to use a sword or a spear and i keep getting killed bc all the people who want to win are using guns
 

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