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Can I ask why? Mechanics aside this is all I really care about.Anja Aj'Rou said:
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Non-Faction Members Should Not Exceed Faction Members In Dominions
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In addition: I hardly believe it would be counted that bad, just like how they don't penalize on the quality rule if it picks up. It's when it gets reported and turns out to be excessive that this rule would be effective.
Edit: Just got your question!
Because, there's lots of temptation to get your dominions done. I won't like and say I didn't ask for outside help just so we could get things done faster but luckily for me we never exceeded our faction's writer count in doing so! Not that it was my intention, but it was that very reason I began nagging myself. I did a survey to see how people felt on the quality of writing but because we were so conscious about getting it over with that the writing became rather stale. Less work was actually put in. The stories did get better, and neither of them were low quality, but it could've been better.
Rules like these and the 1/5 and the quality assurance rules are all helping reshape the culture of dominions into being more of a group activity rather than a race. This one is adding to that by assuring that the group activity is still a faction effort. I've expressed this before and will again; dominions are for factions -- it's their reward, so why shouldn't it be their effort too? If people want to get activity they'll just have to sit down longer and actually discuss an interesting storyline before posting their dominion. That way people will be interested in posting not so they can help their buddies complete the thread but so they can take part in something that's legitimately as fun as a fleshed out public -or- private thread.
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The number of posts required becomes a driving force to reach post 100 , not to create a fun thread. Because regular threads don't offer a boon after X posts.
In addition: I hardly believe it would be counted that bad, just like how they don't penalize on the quality rule if it picks up. It's when it gets reported and turns out to be excessive that this rule would be effective.
Edit: Just got your question!
Because, there's lots of temptation to get your dominions done. I won't like and say I didn't ask for outside help just so we could get things done faster but luckily for me we never exceeded our faction's writer count in doing so! Not that it was my intention, but it was that very reason I began nagging myself. I did a survey to see how people felt on the quality of writing but because we were so conscious about getting it over with that the writing became rather stale. Less work was actually put in. The stories did get better, and neither of them were low quality, but it could've been better.
Rules like these and the 1/5 and the quality assurance rules are all helping reshape the culture of dominions into being more of a group activity rather than a race. This one is adding to that by assuring that the group activity is still a faction effort. I've expressed this before and will again; dominions are for factions -- it's their reward, so why shouldn't it be their effort too? If people want to get activity they'll just have to sit down longer and actually discuss an interesting storyline before posting their dominion. That way people will be interested in posting not so they can help their buddies complete the thread but so they can take part in something that's legitimately as fun as a fleshed out public -or- private thread.
TL;DR
The number of posts required becomes a driving force to reach post 100 , not to create a fun thread. Because regular threads don't offer a boon after X posts.
Valiens Nantaris
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Is it? Without an economy or fleet construction system the number of planets means very little. It's the number and quality of writers which make the difference.Anja Aj'Rou said:
If a faction is indeed a paper tiger then it can be capitalised on by its enemies.Anja Aj'Rou said:
Staff checks each dominion, but so long as no rules are broken we're not going to interfere in how a faction does things. If a faction is so reliant on outside help propping them up then it's your chance to strike.
Boethiah
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I'll agree to that but stances do change based on new rules. Those consequences also exist in numerous other cases and could have been used to argue against the 1/5th rule or quality post rule.
It could've been said not to impose simply because it's a consequence in its own. That may be true, but the reward still shows and sometimes from the outside in that's enough to be a pretense for making a faction seem far more active than it actually is.
I know you and I have always placed different value on dominions. Sure, owning planets really isn't that big of a deal , especially when compared to how many writers one has. But when I was new, The Galactic Republic seemed like the best option because I had it in my mind that such a large faction could only mean it was the most active. Yet when I joined the One Sith were the most consistently active but by far not the largest blob on the map.
So from a new members consideration, It would improve the spread if a factions influence cloud actively portrayed its activity after this event. We wouldn't want the old map to reappear and then have a discussion about how factions are bloated and need to shed weight again...
Of course faction's do lose activity with time, though.
Anyway, I must be off to get some sleep. Don't set the thread on fire whilst I'm gone !
It could've been said not to impose simply because it's a consequence in its own. That may be true, but the reward still shows and sometimes from the outside in that's enough to be a pretense for making a faction seem far more active than it actually is.
I know you and I have always placed different value on dominions. Sure, owning planets really isn't that big of a deal , especially when compared to how many writers one has. But when I was new, The Galactic Republic seemed like the best option because I had it in my mind that such a large faction could only mean it was the most active. Yet when I joined the One Sith were the most consistently active but by far not the largest blob on the map.
So from a new members consideration, It would improve the spread if a factions influence cloud actively portrayed its activity after this event. We wouldn't want the old map to reappear and then have a discussion about how factions are bloated and need to shed weight again...
Of course faction's do lose activity with time, though.
Anyway, I must be off to get some sleep. Don't set the thread on fire whilst I'm gone !
Vivienne Zambrano
Demon's Daughter
*sets thread on fire*
*fire spreads*
*whole site burns down*
This is what happens when you leave for five minutes.
*fire spreads*
*whole site burns down*
This is what happens when you leave for five minutes.
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Moving the discussion to a poll thread because these merry-go-rounds never stop spinning - I'm right, you're wrong, I'm left, you're right, we all have different opinions on how things should be done and different views on why we think that way.
So let's speak with our votes.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/53466-new-dominion-rule-vote/
So let's speak with our votes.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/53466-new-dominion-rule-vote/
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