' Wrote:Asking someone for help with a story? Perfectly fine, I'd argue it's better to do that, you'll almost never catch all of your own errors. Asking for inspiration? Fine too, if someone says something and gives you a great idea just go for it.
However, asking someone to create something for you out of whole cloth so that you can get something that is supposed to be based on your abilities as a writer/talker/person/<insert any and all relevant conspiracies>... no, that's not alright. They did the work, not you. If the request was strong enough of its own merits, then the "special" stuff should go to them, not you...
An SRP was not supposed to be simply "going through the motions" to access certain ships. The idea was that people who were, by some standard or another, "above" a certain cut of the server might have more freedom to do what they wished. If someone else writes the entirety of your SRP background, they are the one who was shown themselves "worthy". Not you.
Paying someone to write a baseline for you, or a story for some random character? I can accept that. As a writer I prefer to do such things myself, but just as I can't make ship models I accept that some people have trouble writing. I see little difference between a poor writer paying someone to flesh out his ideas into words and a poor shipbuilder paying someone to flesh out his ideas into a cmp file. However, I'd say that any materials entirely written by someone else would not be valid references to use for any sort of request ostensibly based on the merits of your own abilities- as it wasn't your own abilities, but rather theirs. You wouldn't claim that a model you paid for but someone else made was proof of your own shipbuilding skills, would you?
When i asked someone to write it, i was not entirly meaning write it all, i can't really think of a good base to start with, if someone magically started me off with a base to a story i can expand upon it, but that being said to get what i am after i would have had to expand uppon that SRP anyways, adding my idea's after reading.