"Elite factions"

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It's perfectly possible to join an "elite" faction based on ingame RP. In fact that's how das Wilde have done it, in my experience.

Why is it wasting your time if you want to join? If you get accepted your time obviously wasn't wasted, was it? You would probably spend more time trading to make the money to buy and equip your "elite" ship (plus any others that followed it) than you would writing a small recruitment post.

I believe when they say "why should they have to join your faction" they meant that they want public IDs.