(01-26-2015, 01:20 AM)Karst Wrote: We all knew this was coming I guess...
24 hours seems reasonable. 5 members honestly seems a bit excessive.
A faction can contribute perfectly well with four or even three members.
Edit: We had 30 hours, five members before. Why not retain the proportion, 24 hours, four members?
I fully agree here. Especially when there is no replacement, why stripping faction which has let´s say three members with steady activity from the officialdom? And why is the activity tracker (which has it´s bugs still, mind you) only source to judge from? Faction with ten hours and one active member is dead of course, but what about faction which has three or four active members, 2-3 days of activity and is also active on forums, is this really a dead faction which doesn´t deserve official status?
Also, perks are taken as justification here, but you are going to punish the faction two times for same thing. Low activity means that the faction has lower chance to get any perks (which over of this may but also may be not given because of several reason) and it can even lead to loss of those which they already has. And now over that you also want to strip them from officialdom.
In recent year we didn´t have activity checks. Did anyone notice any harm this caused? I didn´t. Different case would be active indie faction applying for officialdom and half-dead official faction, it makes sense then. But again, what good will bring if the low active official faction will lose it´s status when there will be no replacement and other factions will lose somebody to RP with at least over forums (tech requests, diplomacy changes etc) as indies can´t make decisions about whole ID.