User blog comment:ThatGenericName/What is allowed and what is not./@comment-11135771-20141112183926

Not sure I like the proposed solutions too much... For the first, I don't really see a problem with having better armor as long as it's kept within reasonable limits. Kosheh armor was blatantly overpowered and should never have been allowed to exist in the first place, but reasonable upgrades shouldn't be banned IMO.

On the second one, I don't agreed with categorizing all the navies into "low end" and "high end". For one, that's a binary system with nothing in between; it's way too imprecise to actually use it for anything. Secondly, there is no way that you can really effectively classify navies like that. There is no real "this navy is stronger than this one", only "this navy is stronger than this one in in this particular area". It's fairly rare for one navy to be stronger than another in every single way, and thus you'd have to make judgements on how much each particular trait of each navy counts toward them being high end or low end. That gets really complicated really quickly. Also, since this system is supposed to restrict technology, this makes no sense, because technology is only one of the many traits of a navy that would result in them being classed as high end or low end. In other words, you'd be restricting navies' technology based (at least in part) on things that have nothing to do with technology.

I'm not too opposed to the third idea, the bit about having an anti-godmodding navy, but what does bug me about it a little is the fact that it's inherently metagaming, and the fact that having it would essentially be admitting that we can't stop godmodding and have to instead resort to doing it ourselves to fight fire with fire, so to speak. Metagaming is literally just relating anything whatsoever than happens OOC to anything IC. Godmodding should not be happening IC; it should be being stopped before it can happen, and retconned into having not happened on the occasions that it does. By creating this you'd basically be saying "nope, we can't stop godmodding despite having administrative powers, we can only godmod even more to counter it". Admins are there for a reason; stopping godmodding is part of their job.