' Wrote:If indies keep up the good work they can never be "punished" by the officials, so to speak. For instance, Cerberus had some little "problems" with the official Order faction, but as our RP evolved, we attracted many eyes and lots of positive impressions. If indies really want to enjoy the game without carrying of the server rules, they can go for the other nonRP servers, like the DoD, or the "Relaxed RP" ones.
Thing is... if indies respect the rules and have a decent RP with the officials, there wouldn't appear any problems.
Oh really ? Make a gallic Char and come and see in Gallia.
Then we will talk about official factions helping or considering the unnoficial ones.
For the metagaming stuff, i agree.
People act as people, being in an official faction doesn't suddenly make you fair and RP accurate, you're just in a group. I saw and see people defending their faction like their "piece of meat" even with other chars with other IDs
No, seriously, i'm more and more untrusty with this official faction stuff. Who decided about who must lead an official faction and for how long ? The official factions leader should be known by indies too and have relationship with them. This would avoid lots of problems.
We created a faction some times ago, unnoficial faction (GAUL), first we just wanted to play council ID faction with some exploration and diplomatic stuff, nothing more, just for having fun between us who didn't fit well with the official one.
The official one is not often here so we're put in first place: Interactions change, "allies" official factions like brigands change and developp, wich is normal but enter more and more in conflict with council ID, so you wanna RP it but as you're not official, you're just constantly ignored or provoced or asked to justify cause you acted and have no right for this. Surprisingly, the most welcoming faction is...the GRN ! :D
It's ok, nobody ain't gonna cry or die but it's just breaking fun to feel as an intruder, and on a RP server, none should be kicked for trying to RP. Even if the way he/they RP is not the one wanted by officials factions
