09-03-2024, 06:47 AM
On the note of the Xenosophont Moratorium, I have a proposal regarding it, but it cannot be done until all of the existing worlds are cleaned up, since doing it now would probably fuck that up.
A vetting process for each and every new sophont, along with their various details. If it is generally agreed upon by a mass number to add a specific thing, it can be canonized. If it is generally agreed upon also by the masses not to add it, it will not be canonized. This would be done by both a polling system and a thread on the concept. This thread, with its poll, would be put on the forums. On top of this, all xenosophonts, and things relating to them, both extinct and modern, must take into account the new changes done to garden worlds. However, certain types of things can be closed off temporarily, if needed. If there is a mass influx of spacefaring sophonts for instance, such things should be put on ice until its either deemed okay to add more for whatever reason or if something comes up that allows a decision to stop them all together. There should be no bias here, every individual who has an account, regardless of contributions or not, should be able to weigh in on this.
However, put in some additional guidelines aside from the changes to garden planets/equivalent, such as actually bothering to flesh out your world, for instance. We have a lot of pages with not much info. IMO, many of the pages seriously need new content.
This could probably be extended to stuff that relates to existing lore, including stuff of Terragen origin.
Not everyone gets to be an astronaut, kids.
A vetting process for each and every new sophont, along with their various details. If it is generally agreed upon by a mass number to add a specific thing, it can be canonized. If it is generally agreed upon also by the masses not to add it, it will not be canonized. This would be done by both a polling system and a thread on the concept. This thread, with its poll, would be put on the forums. On top of this, all xenosophonts, and things relating to them, both extinct and modern, must take into account the new changes done to garden worlds. However, certain types of things can be closed off temporarily, if needed. If there is a mass influx of spacefaring sophonts for instance, such things should be put on ice until its either deemed okay to add more for whatever reason or if something comes up that allows a decision to stop them all together. There should be no bias here, every individual who has an account, regardless of contributions or not, should be able to weigh in on this.
However, put in some additional guidelines aside from the changes to garden planets/equivalent, such as actually bothering to flesh out your world, for instance. We have a lot of pages with not much info. IMO, many of the pages seriously need new content.
This could probably be extended to stuff that relates to existing lore, including stuff of Terragen origin.
Not everyone gets to be an astronaut, kids.