Technocracy of Auxo - Feedback

[Enkidu]

This would be good and all if we, or BHG, were consulted or allowed to be given input when it happened. We weren't. That's more or less the crux of the issue, and why it's gotten to this point. Another split of the AP-Line is the best way to deal with it moving forward.

I totally agree chicanery happened when the line was put in, probably because there was no consensus at the time. I'm well aware that the submission occurred through the means of full-RP-ahead, damn-the-torpedoes. I was in Aux chat when they set up the request so I do recall that there wasn't mutal agreement around. Core and Order are big, mysterious tech factions, so you have people stealing your equipment under various pretexts all the time. Apahanta, Auxesia (who helped the Apahanta become a thing), hell, even my SRP [not the battleship, the other one] (from when I played Discovery actively) is in some way effected by it, because it has 100% on "core" tech obtained from Auxesia. Equally, post-Order characters running around with Order tech are so old that entire children have been conceived and brought up in the time that such characters have been emerging on discovery - not to slander those who RP them. Order and Core are always going to suffer from the Tech-availability dispute, because post-Order, Post-Core characters make for interesting, popular roles. They get to be the closest thing Discovery will let you be, to late-game Edison Trent. Expecially Auxesia that lets you be a cool, shady transhumanist freelancer in a carnival mask and shizzle.


However we can't retroactively solve disputes from year(s) ago through subtractive development, as there will always be legitimate roleplayers and people who had no input in the decision shafted by the process; I.E: every recruit Auxesia has got since then, people whose RP depends upon the equipment that they had no say in the decision making. An additive fix, like the ones suggested, would solve the problem in a way that works for everyone, functionally, even if it doesn't heal the root dispute that the RP is controversial.

It's better than a compromise for both sides and would be a difficult development direction to poke holes in.


I do empathise. I wasn't impressed when IRG magically got 100% on AI equipment, either, despite that AI equipment is meant to be more mysterious than Nomad Tech due to its comparative lack of study and availability, either. 75% would have been reasonable, but 100%? C'mon.

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