It's easier to justify for missions with no point box. The quadrant rule for missions says something like (not checking rn) "mission quadrant is determines by the symbol in its point box. Triangle = Delta, M = Mirror, no symbol = Alpha. A mission with no point box, like Nebula, seeds in the Alpha Quadrant."
It would be both logical and grammatically simple to change that to say, "A mission with no point box, like Nebula, can seed in any quadrant."
Other changes could not be as smooth as that.
Fwiw, me in 2021:
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BCSWowbagger wrote:So today's question: What is your favorite rule that isn't a rule anymore?
Mine is the old rule that missions without a point box ( ❖ Space, ❖ Nebula) could seed in any quadrant. I thought that was elegant and kinda nifty.
Rules has never looked at restoring it for two simple reasons: (1) nothing made it a priority to come off my punch list (my personal fondness for it isn't compelling) and (2) I didn't think it had enough support to win a consensus at the R.C..
The usual rebuttal is, "Why not use this as an opportunity to make NEW Space and Nebula cards for the other quadrants?" However, I, speaking for myself, find this unpersuasive: (1) this doesn't help the main thing people want to do this for, which is pollute opponent's spaceline, which was the original intent of Space it seems to me (2) design has shown zero interest in doing this after lo these many years (and who can blame them? It's six card slots on basically two cards that are likely to fail testing anyway), and (3) the mission template itself doesn't support it. (Where do you put the Delta symbol on a mission with no point box? And now you have to rewrite the rule as well.)
I feel like I've got a lot on my plate at the moment, but if some other Rules Committee member wanted to bring it up, I'd love to slap an initial discussion on the R.C.'s November agenda.
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