Consultation: Revised system for official factions

[The_Godslayer]

ii - Public Roster (members may be anonymous, but they must be revealed to staff during the officialdom process).

Doesn't account for some faction members concern of OORP hate from staff. If you'd like non-current examples, I'll refer you back to LH~'s problems in I think it was 2018 of the same flavor.

5.4.c - Temporarily restrict the ability of individual player ships to dock on their NPC faction’s bases with the /nodock command. House Police factions may additionally prevent player ships from docking on any House Police, Military, Intelligence, or Corporate faction base.
5.4.d - Act as a representative in the House Government if they represent a House Police, Military, Intelligence, or Corporate faction.
5.4.e - Enforce RP consequences upon players, factions, and bases breaking House Laws within House Space.

For non-House factions, do these still apply? And if so, in what capacity?

4.3 - In the case that members of an Official Faction disagree with the direction of the faction, they are advised to handle the dispute privately with faction leadership. If this fails to resolve the issue, faction members may ask for a Vote of No Confidence, whereby staff will privately poll all members of the official faction as to whether or not they believe the Faction Leader and/or Second-in-Command(s) should be replaced.

In the case of a successful vote, or in other cases of gross inactivity or misconduct, the Administrative Team retains the right to remove the leader(s) of an Official Faction and replace them with other member(s) of the community, as needed.

This will cause a "replacement theory" versus "hostile gatekeeping" problem. There's no real way to solve it, either, so just cross said bridges when we get there.

5.4.b - Request that an individual player or faction be set hostile to their represented NPC faction. Players and factions set hostile in this way may treat any player of the requesting faction as a hostile target within their ZOI.

Thank you for maintaining the "FR5ing" colloquialism.

5.5.b - Deploy a single Forward Deployment Ship (a Core 1 POB with two weapons platforms that may be deployed freely once every two weeks). While deployed, an FDS extends any ID with a matching IFF’s ZOI to the system it resides in. FDS deployment location must make in-roleplay sense given the Faction ZOI and ongoing RP. Staff reserves the right to refuse deployment if the desired location is found to be impossible to achieve inRP.
5.5.c - Equip “faction flair pieces including insignia, logos, color schemes, et cetera, pending their creation and approval by the Art Development Team.

For combat-focused factions, this may be bordering useless with the restriction from accessing Connecticut for regens and ammo. Handstocking munitions and regens on bases becomes ultra tedious, especially in the case of factions without transports. An NPC base of such a nature would serve the combat factions better, but I believe that being siegeable is one of the main reasons for it being a PoB. Also, an NPC base would require an infocard and a staff-approved lore tab, and would be subject to the patch cycle for movement unlike a PoB. Finally, the question of base models comes, because for Nomads, there's very limited base models that could be used.

3. OFFICIAL FACTION REQUIREMENTS
3.1 - Official Factions are groups that the Discovery Community and Staff are comfortable advertising as high quality sub-communities to enjoy the game, mod, and server in. As such, the Discovery Staff will routinely review the activity and behavior of all Official Factions every two months.
3.1.a - As part of this review process, each official faction will submit a report detailing a broad overview of their current in-roleplay and out-of-roleplay goals, ongoing events, and challenges. Links to ongoing story threads and in-game footage of events are encouraged.

I doubt there is more than one staff member (you) who is even willing to read multiple pages of my schizophrenic and autistic Nomad ongoings. This specific requirement will wound either staff or factions, and most probably both, viscerally in the psychological department. The intent is clear, and the idea is almost objectively correct, but without a staff member dedicated to each faction or at least each significant alignment in each region, this will inevitably become tedious for all involved and will collapse.

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