Fett, Master Power Request

[Darth Fett]

Official request to begin application for Wormhole [Force Storm]

Thanks for your consideration!

[Master Buggie]

Approved, conditional below.

Staff had been tossing around the idea of scaling this one back or separating the abilities. Regretfully, we took no action on it until you posted here.

Force Storm/Wormhole will work the same, except it will be scaled down to personal/light freighter-sized use for wormhole and local area sized use for the storm. The reasoning for this is the user of the ability in the EU is Palpatine and the rule of thumb on our characters' relative power has been that we should not be stronger than Yoda or Palpatine-type masters.

Use of the ability as originally described (that is, up to fleet level) is allowable upon administrator approval in non-competitive threads.

Since this is obviously quite different from what you were expecting when you requested, please post confirmation that you wish to move forward below. There will be no six-month penalty if you decide you do not wish to proceed.

[Darth Fett]

EDIT/ ADDENDUM:

If I'm understanding right about scaling down, you want to scale down the destructive nature AND the wormhole but keep them paired, despite having entertained dividing them.

If this is open to discussion, I would love to take part, the MPs in general having been my baby passion project and it initially having been a collaborative process before implementation, and eventual further refinement after I'd gone.

FWIW, I have very little interest in the storm aspect. I've never been much for mass destruction and planet killing plots or characters. I have no need of wrecking fleets or moons*.

My interests lie in utility. Teleportation on a galactic scale. Axl mostly wants to be left alone and freely travel from revolution to revolution. Blasting a city with a planetary cyclone is laughably beneath him (in his eyes)

If the staff reconsidered dividing the power in two aspects, one utilitarian, and one offensive, so no one could acquire both, I'd barely wince. Since that's something it seems you considered as opposed to nerfing each aspect, I'd ask that that be on the table in refinement / scaling of the power.


*footnote: outside of my plans for the app itself, showing the destructive force underlying the unrefined use/misuse of the power, something Axl would work to actively minimize... it'd kinda be a necessity to give him a struggle to overcome apart from "concentrating harder"



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(EDIT 2)

Ideally for me he'd be able to open (mostly) stable wormholes once he had earned the power to transport himself, others, maybe less often fleets though mostly npcs. Personal and competitive (though not super common these days) use, but effectively flavor text to normal actions like hyperspace and friends just happening to show up anyway, things super common in threads. Any uses like teleporting PCs adversaries away would be entirely up to the other player, in my estimation, to allow or disallow depending on the story we collaboratively wanted to tell. Same as I use things like mind control. I need the other player's consent before I make that move. My ability to swing my fist stops at their face, game wise, without their go ahead. As for fett becoming untouchable in combat, I think we all know I love fett being touched. Read that how you want. In hand to hand threads I usually volunteer him getting stabbed a little.


Initial reply (moved lower for surprised tone I hope doesn't but don't think it does come across as crass, preserved here for honesty) :

Just saw this

I don't know how to proceed here, or if I want to

I was really never one to godmode and 90% of my activity is solo or get the other player's consent before making any big move, and likely wouldn't be using this much outside of noncompetitive flavor text anyway

But I had planned to move fleets. Granted those threads would effectively be the same as the fleet moving through hyperspace

But this is a pretty big blow to come out of nowhere after literal years now of working toward this, communicating with staff, and waiting for different approvals to line up. I have so much prep work and outlines charted out

This is a really big blow that feels so abrupt

I'm not feeling angry at staff for redrawing lines, just like... caught really offguard and it's weird that this hadn't been a consideration for decades now (edit for clarity. This is specifically re: Palpatine scaling. Fwiw there was 0% interest at any point to scale to his destruction and wipe out cities from the other side of the galaxy)

I need time to rethink this and recalibrate

The last few years here have all hinged on this app being the goal

[Darth Fett]

(Addendums merged into first reply)