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Consistency rules
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| Senator_Ordan | Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2012, 6:14 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Appropriate prices rule
"1.13 All prices for custom designed products or services should be in line with those in the canon for comparable products or services. Any significant price variation from the canon should be directly explained and conform to economic realities."
or words to this effect
Basically if you charge 5,000 for a product which has an similar product in the canon costing 10,000 should be expected to be produced at a significant loss.
Essentially some Canon manufacturers are hobbled by the prices some companies charge in the RP atm which are vastly lower. I admit even the canon isn't awfully consistent fiscally but show a general trend, presumably the prices are at the level they are for a reason. It should be interpreted as the rule as widely or narrowly as the management wish.
Sienar, Kuat, CEC, etc produce ships for billions or many millions of credits where custom designs of equal or greater potency are available for a fraction of the cost.
For example canonically the CR90 Corvette costs 3.5 Million new, the Sluis Van Intrepid-class is by all accounts a better ship yet costs just 1.4 million - I don't believe the CEC name would have a 100% value premium to worlds - and is supposed to be the best selling around.
Sluis Van has a capital ship design on the link mentioned which is twice the size of an Imperial Star Destroyer, requires 1/30th of the crew (not including ground forces) and would easily trounce one given it's fighter compliment - a ship of that scale should have a cost in the billions not millions.
I accept the ISD may have a degree of markup, but the bulk of the price of any ship has to be assumed to be the cost unless mentioned otherwise - it seems apparent that the actual costs of ships production, R&D, fitting out etc never seem to get factored in when custom designs come up.
I'd propose people be given the option of retconning their prices to a more appropriate level or to be considered to have suffered a loss on any sales of them at the disproportionate costs.
The principle of restricted bootstrapping To be added to the end of rule 1.2 to encourage actual RP.
"Where a player's character or organization conducts any transaction with another organization or character that they run (or a NPC), at most, moderate profit may be assumed to have been gained. Player controlled assets are assumed to generate a moderate income/profit unless events in the canon or played out in the game determine otherwise."
This is to put a check on the assumption that selling a load of a product to yourself or some un-played world should equal rampant profit. I think also people need to be aware that most companies are not exceptionally profitable and reflect that.
The canonical realities rule
"5.4 Moderators and Administrators should give careful consideration to the economic and technical realities of the canon when considering requests, aberrations should have a reasonable explanation."
To put a check on out of control business acquisition practices in the roleplay.
Senator Hubert Ordan
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Foreign Minister of Anaxes
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Tuesday, 30 Oct 2012, 11:59 AM | Message # 2 |
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| I APPROVE of 1.13 and the addition to 1.2, though I think these can be combined together. As for 5.4, while I don't disagree with it, I wonder if it's necessary? It's not explicitly stated, perhaps, but it's certainly a rule we operate by. What's more, 5.1 states "It is the duty of Moderators and Administrators to ensure fair, accurate, and fun RP for all members of the site (in that order)". This was worded carefully to stress "accuracy"—that is, accuracy to the canon. If you do think it's necessary though, I won't oppose it.
Jace Varitek
Manager/Administrator from January 2003 to Present
My recent posts here, pre-2009 archives here
"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
—John Maynard Keynes
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| Senator_Ordan | Date: Tuesday, 30 Oct 2012, 2:32 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Maybe it could be simply approved as a non-binding directive - not on the rules but something to bear in mind for moderators.
As for wording, I'm open to amendment.
Senator Hubert Ordan
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Senator of the Azure Sector
Foreign Minister of Anaxes
Captain-General of the Azure Interest Protection Squadron
Deputy Chairman of the Ethics Committee
Worshipful Master of the Most Loyal and Honourable Company of Blockadeers
Archtreasurer of the Vault of Pols Anaxes
Autocrat of Selgon
Owner of Azure Durasteel
Systems Admiral (Ret)
Order of the Canted Circle
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| Jaron | Date: Wednesday, 21 Nov 2012, 5:37 PM | Message # 4 |
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| We'll work out the formal wording over the coming days, but count this... APPROVED.
Jaron Park
Manager from June 2009 to Present, Administrator from December 2011 to Present
(pre-April 2012 posts) (post-April 2012 posts)
Pre-2009 Archives
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