New trend concerning factions (official and unofficial) and activity

[BaconSoda]

I would like to note that it is now a rule that official factions represent the NPC faction's cannon RP. Now there are some of us whom modeled our factions to represent NPC cannon RP from the start others have had to readjust and will have to petition to the devs for any change to cannon RP which still in the end needs approval from Igiss. So if there is another faction building to take over the "one official faction slot per ID" then it's not because they have new set of RP to present, it would be to do the same thing official factions currently have to do: represent NPC cannon RP. So yes I do see how it can begin a trend of "if you want to be official just join a current official group" because anything that flies off into left field and not adhering to cannon NPC RP will not be approved for official status and as a result "doing something different then the official factions" wouldn't be a motivation to put together a group with the aim to supplant said official faction.

Well, what is and is not canon RP is really a good question. People can interpret canon differently. Take for example the Hessians: the RHA portrays themselves as noble heroes of the Rheinland people; I would not portray a Hessian faction as such. I would portray a Hessian faction as a horrible pirating machine focusing only on increasing my sphere of influence and making more money (increasing power, basically). I would not portray the Rogues as being an organized crime syndicate, either. I would rather portray them as a loose group of individuals looking out for #1. Neither would I agree with the canon interpretation of Bowex as an exploration group; I rather think that this is the job of BMM and Bowex should stick to trading. Heck, we even disagreed on how the GMG should present itself. It's your guy's faction, and it's your right to present yourselves how you want, but that doesn't mean that other presentations can't be interpreted from the canon.

So, really, what exactly canon is can be pretty defined, but how everyone can interpret that canon is up in the air. Multiple factions can all do different things, but this does not mean they need to be official, either. The Hessian Tears and the Red Hessian Army both got along fine when the Hessian Tears were unofficial and the RHA was official, and nothing at all changed when they were both official. There's really almost no difference between an unofficial and official faction.

My solution to the "mess"? Keep the one faction rule, but get rid of the bureaucracy regarding tech requests. With a more dedicated rephack, I really think we don't need any kind of tech limiting system at all. If it's conceivable that two groups would be neutral, it's conceivable that they could get their hands on each other's weapons (and ships are easily restricted through ID as well).

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.

[Shryke]

Disco is so far from cannon it's barely worth mentioning. Sure, its based off of cannon, but as Bacon said, you can base a lot off of cannon lore.

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[Exsiled_one]

Sorry but I took over an inactive faction via Admin and RP routes thus showing it can be done while there is an official faction already.

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<span style="color:#33CC00">I AM GIVING AWAY MONEY TO CREATIVE MINDS*</span>

[n00bl3t]

Why wait? The one official faction per ID rule isn't "waiting" for 4.86. If they're gonna have a rule such as that then there needs to be some serious accountability concerning the already existing offical factions.

I can think of two or three unofficial factions right now that have been around for months, have steadily grown and are even more active than the current official faction (factions in one case) and provide just as much of a quality interaction. They deserve at the least to have the option given to them to challenge their respective official factions.

Simply because of the lull in activity before the new mod, that and the recent flak.

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It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.