Re: Recent Talon Rule 5 Ruling
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Yeah, having so much cross-chatter between characters is actively harmful to what the talon is intended to be, which is a group of characters that are different to the regular station characters.
It's like if everyone on the station was an ex-mercenary or some shit. As I mentioned in the whitelist policy, having one ex-mercenary that fled to the periphery to escape his past and now works as a bartender on a frontier station is a cool-ass plothook that could lead to neato stories later on, but when everyone is a grizzled ex-merc with a dark past the whole thing loses its shine.
Hence, one person being greenlit for that sort of backstory is not a greenlight to say it's okay for just anyone to make a copycat character.
We originally planned for the talon to be mostly consistently talon characters with the occasional contractor that can sometimes be found on both, we even told them we'd prefer it without actually enforcing. Unfortunately people have been disregarding this, the flavour of the setting has been harmed as a result, so we're no longer asking.
Or to put it another way - we have altered the deal. Pray we don't alter it any further.
It's like if everyone on the station was an ex-mercenary or some shit. As I mentioned in the whitelist policy, having one ex-mercenary that fled to the periphery to escape his past and now works as a bartender on a frontier station is a cool-ass plothook that could lead to neato stories later on, but when everyone is a grizzled ex-merc with a dark past the whole thing loses its shine.
Hence, one person being greenlit for that sort of backstory is not a greenlight to say it's okay for just anyone to make a copycat character.
We originally planned for the talon to be mostly consistently talon characters with the occasional contractor that can sometimes be found on both, we even told them we'd prefer it without actually enforcing. Unfortunately people have been disregarding this, the flavour of the setting has been harmed as a result, so we're no longer asking.
Or to put it another way - we have altered the deal. Pray we don't alter it any further.