Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Though the wording of these amendments may change, and they might be replaced by something better, here are four recent changes to the Factory Rules.
Old rule: Any submission made personally by the user or another PC must have a development thread.
New rule: Any submission made personally by the user or another PC generally requires a development thread.
Old rule: Minor factions are permitted unique, PC-captained ships up to a length of 1,000 meters.
New rule: Minor factions are permitted unique, PC-captained ships up to a length of 1,000 meters, as well as ships up to 400 meters within realistic and reasonable limits.
Old rule: Mobile artificial intelligence apart from droid brains will not be approved; no Cortana knockoffs.
New rule: Mobile or powerful artificial intelligence requires a development thread and factory submission, as laid out in the Factory's Restricted Items List.
Old rule: A development thread as defined by SWRP's staff is a thread in which two or more writers develop or engage the technology to a minor degree into a larger plot.
New rule: A development thread as defined by SWRP's staff is a thread in which one or more writers develop or engage the technology to a minor degree into a larger plot.
tl;dr: You have the flexibility to stamp a junk blaster that some PC made himself; Minor Factions, which could always have 400m ships owned by faction members, have now been clarified; the AI rule was made obsolete when Tef made the Restricted Items List; and solo dev threads are now officially legit.
This mostly affects [member="Strask Ak'lya"], [member="Aaralyn Rekali"], [member="Jacen Cavill"], and @Popo.
Old rule: Any submission made personally by the user or another PC must have a development thread.
New rule: Any submission made personally by the user or another PC generally requires a development thread.
Old rule: Minor factions are permitted unique, PC-captained ships up to a length of 1,000 meters.
New rule: Minor factions are permitted unique, PC-captained ships up to a length of 1,000 meters, as well as ships up to 400 meters within realistic and reasonable limits.
Old rule: Mobile artificial intelligence apart from droid brains will not be approved; no Cortana knockoffs.
New rule: Mobile or powerful artificial intelligence requires a development thread and factory submission, as laid out in the Factory's Restricted Items List.
Old rule: A development thread as defined by SWRP's staff is a thread in which two or more writers develop or engage the technology to a minor degree into a larger plot.
New rule: A development thread as defined by SWRP's staff is a thread in which one or more writers develop or engage the technology to a minor degree into a larger plot.
tl;dr: You have the flexibility to stamp a junk blaster that some PC made himself; Minor Factions, which could always have 400m ships owned by faction members, have now been clarified; the AI rule was made obsolete when Tef made the Restricted Items List; and solo dev threads are now officially legit.
This mostly affects [member="Strask Ak'lya"], [member="Aaralyn Rekali"], [member="Jacen Cavill"], and @Popo.
