Charmaylarg Dufrain
🎖️ Game Master
Yeah, this is 100% spurred on in regards to my own ineptitude to understand or fathom the nomenclature system and is in no way being spiteful at andrew in my recent submissions who is just doing his job in the NTSE. And comes from the perspective and irritation of someone who makes a lot of articles (not compared to someone like wes, but I consider myself above average compared to most in how much I put on the wiki).
Actual pitch tho:
As it stands the Standard Product Nomenclature adds nothing substantial or really even at all to the RP experience except in I'm sure some very uncommon cases where a GM quoted some nomenclature code for whatever reason and offered nothing to the OOC or creation/submission process. It is a pointless and irksome requirement that unlike in the real world where such nomenclature makes searching and finding products in, say, a military or product catalog easier for logistics and requisition; Here on sarp it exists for that reason for in character products, but is pointless OOC to force onto articles and is not used in any way I have ever encountered in character.
I have for the longest time stood on my soap box and rallied for less of a paperwork aspect to submission and creation which has been slowly creeping in more and more over the years despite events like the pandemic lowering player counts and time to dedicate to this community due to real life taking a greater majority and priority of our time, and still rules and systems seem to creep in such as now having actual paperwork to fill out in the form of struct, forcing players if they want to submit something to roleplay requirements despite the fact that we are here to have fun and not slog out an entire thread or 10,000 word essay just to be able to submit something at an all-time low of submissions and RP ---->in my opinion<----- (though I have enjoyed the temporary lifting of the RP requirements and hope wes sees fit to keep it lifted indefinately for those of us who make a lot of stuff and don't have time to spare as is.), pointless and redundant templates to fill out that feel like half the information required is just to make an article look longer, and others that add up to pointless redundancy so this isn't a new development.
But I am proposing that until the day wes makes some fancy AI-generator that you can input the nomenclature options and find a link (and even then make it a tool not a forced requirement to use) that the nomenclature no longer be a part of the submission process unless FMs want them for their faction for whatever reason.
Before anyone points it out I am aware that submitters can opt not to do nomenclature at all and let the NTSE fill that in, but the whole process is redundant and unnecessary for a system that adds at most six to eight letters and a single line nobody reads or memorizes to already bloated articles and adds yet one more thing our already sparse NTSE staff have to do or check which should not be required of them either. Im aware it has been around for quite a while but in my opinion removing it is one small step to encourage more creation without scaring new players with the paperwork aspect of creation and submission.
That is all, sorry If I did not word any of that well; I often tend to rant into the dozens of paragraphs and often cut them down before posting.
Actual pitch tho:
As it stands the Standard Product Nomenclature adds nothing substantial or really even at all to the RP experience except in I'm sure some very uncommon cases where a GM quoted some nomenclature code for whatever reason and offered nothing to the OOC or creation/submission process. It is a pointless and irksome requirement that unlike in the real world where such nomenclature makes searching and finding products in, say, a military or product catalog easier for logistics and requisition; Here on sarp it exists for that reason for in character products, but is pointless OOC to force onto articles and is not used in any way I have ever encountered in character.
I have for the longest time stood on my soap box and rallied for less of a paperwork aspect to submission and creation which has been slowly creeping in more and more over the years despite events like the pandemic lowering player counts and time to dedicate to this community due to real life taking a greater majority and priority of our time, and still rules and systems seem to creep in such as now having actual paperwork to fill out in the form of struct, forcing players if they want to submit something to roleplay requirements despite the fact that we are here to have fun and not slog out an entire thread or 10,000 word essay just to be able to submit something at an all-time low of submissions and RP ---->in my opinion<----- (though I have enjoyed the temporary lifting of the RP requirements and hope wes sees fit to keep it lifted indefinately for those of us who make a lot of stuff and don't have time to spare as is.), pointless and redundant templates to fill out that feel like half the information required is just to make an article look longer, and others that add up to pointless redundancy so this isn't a new development.
But I am proposing that until the day wes makes some fancy AI-generator that you can input the nomenclature options and find a link (and even then make it a tool not a forced requirement to use) that the nomenclature no longer be a part of the submission process unless FMs want them for their faction for whatever reason.
Before anyone points it out I am aware that submitters can opt not to do nomenclature at all and let the NTSE fill that in, but the whole process is redundant and unnecessary for a system that adds at most six to eight letters and a single line nobody reads or memorizes to already bloated articles and adds yet one more thing our already sparse NTSE staff have to do or check which should not be required of them either. Im aware it has been around for quite a while but in my opinion removing it is one small step to encourage more creation without scaring new players with the paperwork aspect of creation and submission.
That is all, sorry If I did not word any of that well; I often tend to rant into the dozens of paragraphs and often cut them down before posting.