Sonoshee, you described the issue very well, and I think I love you.
As a culminated reply to those who said that people who aren't willing to fulfill the requirements needed to enter an official faction are lazy and therefore its best to get rid of them altogether...
When people start playing here, they play here for amusement, and solely for amusement. They don't want to prove anything to anybody yet, they don't play to get on Skype with anyone, they don't play to read through pages of badly organized forums. They just look for fun new aspects to be found in discovery that they don't already know from vanilla.
The most obvious aspent they see are the cap ships, and they judge them solely by their looks. Other things that could be potentially be interesting in discovery are exploring new systems, but tbh discovery is much stronger in terms of the great looking cap ship models than it is in terms of system layout or interesting things to be found in the new systems.
And of course their is multiplayer and role play, which is ambiguous because the impression you gain from that depends very much on the attitudes of the first few players you meet (their attitudes towards you as a person, not on how good they think their role play is).
After some amount of exploring (which is rendered much less interesting by the 30+ restarts available now and the tons of copy-pasted bases and thousands of empty clicks to fly), the players will decide to go for the multiplayer co-op experience, or go for the biggest baddest cap so they can blow up the people they met earlier.
And how the players decide, not only depends on what kind of person they are. It also very much depends on the experiences they made with the people they met. Guess how they are more likely to decide if everyone they met went "lol you suck at fighter PvP and at RP, I play since 2006 and I'll start treating you like a person once you got to my level", and guess how they are more likely to decide if people offered to be their friend and invited them for co-op fun even if they were only noobs.
Of course, nobody can be expected to be friends with everyone. But if you're going to ask someone to at least try to be friendly to new people and offer help, who else should it be if not the people who want to gain influence by being official factions?
A lot of people here seem to think being in an official faction is a badge that you carry to show people that you are one of the better players. I think it should instead be meant for anyone who wants to help the server community as a whole. You can show how much better you are at RP or PvP in your own little unofficial elite independent wing that you only let your friends into. Official factions should never be something like that, unless their are more than one official faction for a faction.
To the people who said "just let them fly their caps and stop hating them for it", I totally agree with you. But the question asked in the first post of the thread was something else.
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