' Wrote:Don't make it a job. Perhaps factions should put aside policies that alienate independents and try to attract them instead.

Someone pointed out in another thread that some factions don't alienate independents but have trouble with activity. Maybe military/house factions should have a higher server activity threshold than trading/mining/"minor" factions.

' Wrote:Not 300, but I agree.

Official factions recieve too much power over other players as it is. They even act as sort of mini-admins when it comes to technology permissions, yet the requirements are extremely relaxed.

Relaxed requirements shoud not = such power.

' Wrote:Please give an example of an official faction that alienates independents. You are using it as support for your argument so you must present proof that it is even a problem.

Quote:I say we go back to the good old days. All you need is 5 members to be official, but you get no power from being official.

' Wrote:Don't make it a job. Perhaps factions should put aside policies that alienate independents and try to attract them instead.

Someone pointed out in another thread that some factions don't alienate independents but have trouble with activity. Maybe military/house factions should have a higher server activity threshold than trading/mining/"minor" factions.

' Wrote:I say we go back to the good old days. All you need is 5 members to be official, but you get no power from being official.

' Wrote:I say we go back to the good old days. All you need is 5 members to be official, but you get no power from being official.

' Wrote:Official factions don't have very much power past ensuring you don't break with vanilla lore too much. As for your comment about technology permissions; that is what the admins wanted so they didn't have to deal with it and so it wasn't as stupid as typing up a story and mounting the guns.

' Wrote:I am not going to give a specific example because that will inevitably devolve into finger pointing and hurt feelings. Let me instead point out how, on the server, most people are playing independent, when that isn't reflected at all by NPC roleplay. Yes, it's Freelancer. But if you want to represent an official faction, represent it. There has got to be a reason why there are so many independents purposefully avoiding joining official factions, even with their recruitment perk. I don't think it's just a language barrier.

' Wrote:One reason some independents don't join official factions is that they don't want to be told what to fly, what weapons they qualify for, what their rp is going to be etc. They want to be truly independent. Why try to induce them away from that?

These reasons won't go away with more active factions.

' Wrote:This is meant to be a place to have fun. Not a second job.

' Wrote:I am not going to give a specific example because that will inevitably devolve into finger pointing and hurt feelings. Let me instead point out how, on the server, most people are playing independent, when that isn't reflected at all by NPC roleplay. Yes, it's Freelancer. But if you want to represent a faction, represent it. There has got to be a reason why there are so many independents purposefully avoiding joining official factions, even with their recruitment perk. I don't think it's just a language barrier.

' Wrote:FR5 is a huge amount of power. So are tech permissions, but that's a different gripe of mine and I won't adulterate the impressively balanced discussion that has occurred so far.