' Wrote:Independants? These events, as mentioned, earlier have real consequences to it, each side is headed by an official faction GMG| and [|]. I always felt strongly that major events like this is one of the benefits of paying up the 500mil and putting in the work and RP to be accepted as official.
Then don't let any random independents show up. I'd gladly fly around with [|] or GMG| to prove I'm not one of the idiots, not that I think it'd do a damn bit of good since a lot of people share your opinion.
I frankly don't care who paid $500mil. Y'know what that is? Just a bunch of trading typically completely unrelated to the faction in question (GMG being one exception, since it's a corporation of sorts). All I see that as is a way for the admins to lessen their work - not something I hold against the admins, but not something I consider a mark of quality. If an independent can RP well, why should be be excluded just because he doesn't want to be in your faction or pay half a billion credits to start his own? Hell, in some cases (my Hogosha characters, in fact), joining the faction might even go against their existing RP.
You can't buy quality RP, Prowler. Paying the admins half a billion credits doesn't do that. All it does is buy permission to post in the Faction Creation Requests forum. A faction isn't accepted based on how many credits are sent to the admins, it's accepted for the same reason most people get mentioned in the Kudos thread - quality of RP, something that is not exclusive to official factions, and not something that every member of every official faction has.
(Edit: And no, I'm not saying I'm the best RPer here. Far from it, I know I've got some serious flaws, like a tendency to want to kill things with fire. I just think you're wrong.)
