Ok, so base supplies were disabled, but then the team calls for activity at the same time...? Don't take it personally but considering base supplying makes up a fair amount of faction activity, this makes little real sense.
These threads are a kick in the balls to community moral every time we see them. Whether or not you deliberately target the moral balls, but to those getting kicked it feels that way There has got to be a better way of doing this than throwing up a list of failing factions and frowning upon them.
If you want to see a resurgence in Official factions, lower the requirements. I mean what we really have is about 10 people in 18 factions or whatever anyway.