Factions!!

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I do also believe non-OF factions should have influence on the story.

That essentially means anyone can influence the story, which is already the case, as anyone can apply for story dev or make submissions.

My main concern regarding official factions THINKING they can influence the story is that most of them did nothing to qualify themselves for doing so. In most cases, the people running the official factions right now are not the same people who went through the ambitious effort of getting the faction official in first place. Right now, most faction leaders are 1iC/2iC because they inherited the position by being there, not by meeting a firm set of standards that qualify them.


Maybe that would be different if active official factions would be required to fulfill the same requirements that new factions need to meet to earn and keep the privilege to have a stronger-than-none influence on story decisions compared to the random person that contacts the right people on Discord. The Official Faction Check-ins were ideal to provide transparency on what is currently going on. I think that would be a good start to re-introduce, because having factions log into the game for the sake of completing the three days of activity by, in the worst case, avoiding literally everyone else outside the faction, is probably not the general idea behind keeping a faction official. Instead of promoting online-time, promoting interactions - and not necessarily just combat-based interaction - should be promoted.

Everyone is interested in diplomacy and scheming, but I have yet to see two factions forming defended convoys together as joint operation. Inter-faction trading is mentioned over and over again on comms and is loved to be brought up in debates. What people mostly get to see is smuggling convoys when the Three-Day-mark needs to be met.

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