[Public Discussion/request for recommendations] - Unioner faction allegiance.

[Victor Steiner]

I don't have an awful lot of knowledge about the Unioners. I've never had an RP interaction with them and have fought them very rarely, but from an outside perspective it seems to me that 90% of UN time seems to be invested in Bering and Hamburg. Now that's not an issue per say, but that system is now a proper warzone, which means RP interactions in that system are going to be...limited.

So, getting down to the issues you face it would appear that your stance of neutrality is becoming harder to maintain, which is not unexpected since that usually how neutrality works anyway, it's an unsatisfying position to all parties involved (aside from the neutral party itself of course). It appears that the Unioners will be required to pick a side in one of the conflicts, large pendulum swings of diplomacy only serve to make a faction look unstable and therefore untrustworthy because, I assume, the Unioners have their own goals and (like most other groups) seek to ally with others so as to push those goals. Now, that position will create conflict (at some point), what you lot are trying to do (it seems to me) is balance and cater to many, many different groups who are at war with one another, which means the likely outcome for the Unioners is isolation and (eventually) collapse. The UN are not Zoners, you have goals that you want to push and yet continue to switch, which (as mentioned) makes you look untrustworthy (why would a group side with another group that can't make up its mind?).

I advise then that you do away with the strict neutrality you seem to be trying to push and pick a side. An actual internal discussion is needed as to what direction you want to go because the current course of action does not seem to be working and it does not seem to be a position you (or most factions for that matter) can maintain.

I should like to point out this is just my general observation, I don't know the intricate details so I am not the most informed person on this matter, I'm not making any accusations, I'm just telling it how I see it.

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