Should official factions have more power?

[BaconSoda]

Bluntly, yes.

Official factions need their balls back. Specifically, we need control - yes, TOTAL control - of our guard systems back. The right to arbitrarily deny anyone entry, regardless of alignment, and to destroy anybody who violates whatever controls we impose on our space. The only thing 'official' about us is cosmetics. We did some stupid things back in the heady days when the server started expanding, but we've all certainly learned how not to govern a faction and now we find ourselves with virtually no purpose; we're quite like the Red Hat Society. We look kind of stylish, but we don't do anything. We shoot. We pirate. We get luld at by our own people. When I was still a fascist dictator it was considered acceptable to blow people up for lulzing at you; this is another thing that should be looked at. Pilots in a military or police or what have you setting should be marginally subject to the authority of the official factions because a lot of indies tend to preclude factional authority, and, by extension, factional RP, which I think by its very nature takes precedence over indie RP.

I don't believe such a dictatorial approach should be taken. Official factions should have complete control over their guard system, yes, but not in the way in which the 101st did it. Restrictions from guard systems should be done on a Roleplay basis after the independent messes up. There is no reason for an Outcast to be restricted from his own guard system because the 101st said so. He's doing his RP the way he wants to do it, and unless that is completely OoRP or completely contradicts what is in place, he should be allowed to do it.

Dang it, Athenian, stop being so insightful. The first priority of any faction should be to set a great example of both roleplay and fairplay on the server. To these ends, a faction leader needs to set a great example for their faction and actually lead them to be both great roleplayers, and players in general.

For doing this, Official Factions get the ability to drive the mod storyline forward, to some extent. They get credibility in official diplomacy with other official factions. They get to buy a system and mod it however they like (Within certain limits).

Official factions are the backbone of discovery. Without factions, there would be no indies. There would be no Roleplay for everyone else to take after. That is what makes an official faction. That example to everyone else. Everything else is secondary to that. If someone here thinks that a faction is here to boss around other factions, he should rethink his outlook on factions.

EDIT: In other words: Factions are fine.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.