You can't do that

[Lythrilux]

The standards are just simply the mould that the story Devs define. Factions just need to fit into that, without carrying in anything ridiculous such as non-canon material.

The first problem I see with that is, with all due, these "standards" tend to fluctuate quite a lot every time the dev team is undergoing "changes" or call it whatever you like. I remember the first when Igiss "left" his chair empty so to speak, that was when these so called standards went down south ... a bit.

Than I took a short break to come back and see that lore and "standards" were given by some faction leaders, while others could decide if they'd play by that or dissapeare with their faction/group/RP idea.

Lately, while the Dev team is different, and fortunately faction leaders part of the dev team aren't that much prone to scratching their own backs every time, lately it's community members who like to pose in the light of "setting standards". Unfortonately there will be some eager and happen to have a bit of all-mighty complex , wanting to get things to go as they want every time, doesn't matter who is a dev or an admin or whatever. But as long as those people are not allowed to be taken seriously, standards should be set by the general sense, not by 2 ppl.


In my point of view, as long as one can make a solid and senseable RP, able to find a route for it on the Discovery motorway, let it roll ... may it be aliens,robots, genetic mutatns ran away from a Cryer laboratory or whatever.

I admit there are things that shouldn't be, so flying rainbow colored fluffy tailed ponies wouldn't work ever, but so far I think ppl tend to have that much of common sense.

I think Rohj is a pretty headstrong guy who knows how to keep things consistent. The story team did a thing a few months ago where they went around to each faction and consulted them on the integrity of their lore, and helped them iron out any bugs and prepare them for future updates. From that alone, it gives me personally some faith.

Like I said though, Guard Systems are definitely not in those standards at all. And they encourage factions to powergame as they're not part of the main lore. This can then create further problems and inconsistencies that sidetrack these 'standards'. But in that regard it's good that the staff have dictated them as not being canon, and that they or most of them are scheduled for the chopping block.

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