Yeah I guess I put my foot in the mouth by making two disastrous generalizations in my statement; first putting all indies under the same opinion and then second by allowing my opinion to include all events. I apologize. Yes I have met many "independant" players whose RP is of the highest quality (in fact in many cases, it would be OORP for that char to be grouped with others). My argument should (and will from now on) only pertain to this specific set of events.
I will be doing my best in these events to keep things from going out of control. This is primarily an official faction vs an official faction with official results but I am trying to be as inclusive as possible as two of GMG's projects include Kishiro and DSE. Neither have an official faction but I know that they'll feel that they have something at stake so I want to include them. Now all this along with GMG's BD allies means Hogosha is outnumbered and not on home turf. They'll be able to bring allies along for the party and have AFA to choose from as well as a couple official Corsair factions. If we include hired guns (where your FL falls under not indie) than the numbers will already be soaring. Start posting "Independants welcome to participate" and we'll be having a hoard of new GMG, Hogosha, etc... getting in the action and turning the events into something unmanageable.