Community Feedback: Official Factions Proposal

[Garrett Jax]

The Staff would like to get Community input regarding this proposal to keep floundering official factions from losing their officialdom.

The proposal involves allowing forum RP to become a mitigating factor in determining whether a low hour official faction should stay official. Currently, forum RP is being used, in part, to evaluate a faction applying for officialdom. Forum RP is looked at when a player requests a Core upgrade for his POB. Forum RP is looked at when evaluating the merits of an SRP. Forum RP is an important factor in determining the merits of all these requests.

Additionally, there might be some other forum based factions that never seriously entertained the idea of becoming official because in-game play doesn't reflect much of their activity.

The proposal for the Community to consider is this: If an Official Faction is struggling to meet the hourly requirement, and is at risk of losing their officialdom, the Official Faction Leader can post their answers to the following questions in a specified thread. These answers will help the Staff to determine whether the faction is deserving of remaining official.

1. What is the main reason for not meeting the hourly requirement?
2. What efforts have been made towards trying to generate activity, either in game or on the forums? (Provide forum rp links)
3. What efforts can the staff make to help you remain official?

If the official faction leader can provide satisfying answers to these questions, there may be no reason to remove their officialdom, especially considering the current state of Disco right now.

The goal here is not to remove officialdom from factions, but to reward positive efforts in Disco's currently challenging environment.

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