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So, ETC has FAQ'd Tzeentch Screamers so that they may claim to have moved over ( "over" as a word having multiple definitions, including merely passing over something partially ) and do their sweep attacks ( basically allowing the models to remain put and the player just saying they now flew a circle over an enemy unit and returned to where they were. )

Personally I'm fine with this, because nowhere in the rules is a unit forbidden to end it's movement where it began ( or if so, please point to the page and paragraph ) and I could also physically pick up the models, fly a circle above the enemy unit and put them back in their original positions. Just saves time not doing so.

However, now a new Eldar Corsair unit has a designer's note forbidding basically this very thing: http://i.4cdn.org/tg/1449038077081.jpg

The rules do not forbid a move to end where it began, but in essence that Designer's Note does. It's also not a rule, it's a Designer's Note, that also asks you to play a singular Forgeworld unit sort of not how things can be played according to the rules. Can you just ignore this Designer's Note and play the unit according to the game rules, holding it still and saying it moved, or do you need to abide by it?

If the latter, then in essence the core rules would be overwritten by a singular units Designer's Note, also quite a sketchy outcome. So how is it now then?

If it's in the rulebook and tells you how a rule should be played or works, why is a designer's note somehow not a rule?

The Designer's note is still a valid rule explanation for this special rule. That doesn't mean it carrys over to other rules, like the one you mentioned.

I checked the rulebook and on page 18. it's clearly described that moving the way you came from ( and therefore stopping on the spot you started if you have the sufficient movement ) is perfectly fine.

It is perfectly fine to measure a units move in one direction, and then change your mind and decide to move it somewhere else ( even the opposite way entirely! )

Just adding this here so the discussion won't be derailed besides the main issue by folks who think this is not the case.

I also find it a bit odd that the note says "it's not permissible" when infact permission to do the very thing discribed is given in the core rulebook.

So the correct interpretation is that every other model in the game can claim it has moved in a circle, but this single unit cannot because of the Designer's Note?

 Runic wrote:

It is perfectly fine to measure a units move in one direction, and then change your mind and decide to move it somewhere else ( even the opposite way entirely! )

I don't think this means what you think it does. That line of the rules simply mean that measuring your move before moving models isn't binding and you can change your mind and choose to move them in an entirely different direction or not at all.

That said though, the rulebook doesn't actually say you can't move and end up where you began, so you can.
And yes, the Designer's Note would still mean the Corsair unit can't benefit from its special rule. It means it isn't permissible for the unit to remain still to benefit from it, not that it isn't permissible in general to end your movement where you began and yet not be stationary.

That's possible, but as you said the point still stands.

So I guess the unit in question is the only unit in the game which isn't allowed to end it's move where it began, contrary to the core rules of the game... as silly as it sounds.

Then again, WH40K.

 Runic wrote:
So I guess the unit in question is the only unit in the game which isn't allowed to end it's move where it began...

It can end it's move in exactly the same spot as it began. What it can't do is claim the benefits of a certain special rule it has if it does so.

It's similar to how GW had ruled vehicle movement during 5th edition for the purposes of close combat - you can move all you want, however, for the purposes of being hit on close combat, you check displacement.