I am pro indie. I really do not see a lot that these perks would take away from the indie population, not to mention that once some of these go through a trial period with the official factions, they can be then added to the main ID as well, so no worries.
If anything, the perks related to income can be a good reason for official factions to work with indies- especially mining factions.
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Also with speed how perks can be obtained, their effect won´t be significant for at least several months. And at least third of current official factions will be indies in half a year in my opinion with current re-establishment of activity requirements. Once the update hype will fade away and people will be busy with studies again, lot of factions won´t make it.
Try again after the uni stuff has cooled off is good activity and prevents stagnation.
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Quote:Elaborate why. And no, ''cuz'' is not an answer.
Quite tempting types of perks, I'd say. If one wants to be a Rogue, why not joining the official Rogues and have some advantages over indies? I won't start explaining what advantages these types of perk have, 'cause it's not hard to understand.
Or just get it as a joke, 'cause I'm an indie too, and I'm not gonna rip myself.
But really, quite tempting perks. How about just forbidding being an indie? Would contribute officials to increase their activity too.
There is a big different between having more perks THAN an indie and perks OVER indies.
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Quote:Elaborate why. And no, ''cuz'' is not an answer.
I won't start explaining what advantages these types of perk have, 'cause it's not hard to understand.
This sounds like a "cuz" answer.
Go to the first page and read those perks and their advantages over indies. If I wanted to play a Rogue, Hacker, Outcast, Corsair or anything else I'd join their official factions. But I don't want...
It doesn't need much logic to understand that Indies and players with Generic IDs are being oppressed.
I really prefer pirating an official faction member than an indie one. So the more active officials become, the more fun and interesting RP will be on my side too.
Quote:There is a big different between having more perks THAN an indie and perks OVER indies.
In any case, indies are oppressed. Why should ONE have more advantages in game than the OTHER player? Don't tell me "because of RP quality, 'cause there're indies RPing better than many officials".
Well, I know with this you're trying to help officials, but do you think a faction deserves officialdom if it can't gain activity on it's own?
The majority of the problems encountered by the official factions that I was involved in was that we were held accountable to the actions of indies, but didn't actually have any powers over them; when their actions became unpalatable the official faction was punished like the indies (im thinking of the events that stuck bhg out in the darkest darkness and nommies like... nowhere to be found, and corsair noobs flying caps in cambs, giving the rest of us a bad name).
With discussion, could a blanket zoi extension be applied to official factions, if only for the chance of being able to get away from the indies for a while, and mayhap drive official faction membership up.
*not all indies are horrible. Most are nice. I'm an indy on several characters, but heres the thing: all idiots = indies (cos they get kicked out of official factions) but indies =\= idiots, cos that would be calling myself an idiot, which would be weird. Ok? Flame war prevented by 'fire retardant blanket apology in advance'.
Offtopic. Yo benitez. Have a decent computer. As soon as cny is out of the way, will be looking for you buggers to start playing earlier.