"New faction creation process and representation" discussion thread.

[Dieter Schprokets]

What Athenian said, especially:

I think the proposed system sounds over-complicated.

and

This exists already. Councils do already exist - the Zoners have one, the Corsairs have one

I'll summarize some points very briefly.

1) Military/Police/Corporation factions : There should be only one official faction for each NPC faction. There may be more unofficial ones.

2a) Unlawful and neutral factions : There can be (and in fact are) more than one official Corsair and Outcast faction, and that makes perfect sense. A big unlawful house with more than one rival gang. More zoner factions could even make some sense. It starts to make less sense when the NPC factions get smaller. More than one Molly or Bundshuh official faction is not reasonable.

In short, one official faction per NPC faction should be the rule, with some exceptions. This is currently the status quo, and it seems to be ok.


On the following I agree with the principle:

The Factions forum would be split in two. A "Factions" subforum, containing a pinned topic describing what an official faction is and what it can('t) do and all the stuff related to official factions, and a "Groups" subforum containing another pinned thread describing what they are and what they can('t) do along the thread regarding the groups

You are renaming "unofficial factions" to "groups" for simplicity. Good.

I am not sure about the council idea. I fear it could get complicated. What Athenian said.

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