Quote:Yes, it needs to be creative buffs of all kinds - credits buff for OF shipping factions and extra bounties in events for OF combat factions is a no brainer though.
Also credits are not important to vets, sure, but it WILL give incentive for newer players to join Official factions and help it with tracker. If I am an Ageira indie now it's like "meh whatever" but if I saw an OF player run the same route and make 40% more money it'd give me a strong urge to consider joining and get it too. Much like miners join OF s to get their mining bonuses.
Same with an event and Ofs getting more cash - every event would have "Official ID players get 50% more rewards on kills" - would be there in every event and make OF seem to matter way more. Even if the actual money is hardly signifficant at all.
In my opinion, this is a rather shortsighted solution.
You now get people to join OFs so they achieve 50% more credits for doing the the same thing an Indy can.
And that last for 5 minutes because now the 'new' guy has so many credits, in such a short time, he doesn't need to do anything else.
Take the last 2 Events in which some people made literally billions. If they had been in an OF they would have instead of making 4 billion in one Event, made 6.
I see my name being mentioned as being rich. The reason I am rich is because I find nothing to actually spend my credits on.
I have 4 Caps, which spend most of the time collecting dust. I have upgraded my my 3 POBs with custom models, bought 3 Barges (1 of which I gave as a present to someone) and still have a stupid amount of credits.
The credits I make, which is just a by-product of me Trading, just go and sit in Bank Ships.
I know someone who has every Cap, fully kitted out, and now his credits are just building up. Having so many ships just ends up like owning 10 cars, you can only drive one at a time.
As for OFs and retaining them, at the minute with 3 Members you need to log 16 minutes a day, each Member, to achieve the bare minimum time to remain active. 4 Members is only 12 minutes.
It isn't hard to achive but the problem comes is that there are a lot of the 'same' people in a lot of OFs and so it is difficult for them to 'do' their 16 minutes because they will need to do it for 5, 6, 7, 8 etc times a day, depending on how many they are in.
DTR, like/dislike them, had a very aggressive recruitment drive and managed to 'snap up' a lot of Indies. The 'old' OFs just think that sitting back, logging once in a while, that people will 'flock' to them. It isn't going to happen. Maybe a lot of these need to stop being 'elitist', actively open up their recruitment, show the flag and inspire people to want to join them.
Most people like to be a 'part' of something, show them that being a part of your OF is something they want.
Effectively OFs have 6 months in which to lose Officialdom, not the 3 that people keep mentioning. So, having a bad 3 months, just means have a better 6 months, afterwards, to retain Officialdom.
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