Talk:Official Player Factions

Pages that have to be merged with this one

• Liberty Player Factions
• Bretonia Player Factions
• Kusari Player Factions
• Rheinland Player Factions
• Hispania Player Factions
• Other Player Factions

Allied/neutral/enemy/etc.

I think the information about who is ally/enemy/neutral towards whom would be better placed on the pages of the factions themselves.

Nodwick 08:05, 14 May 2008 (GMT)

Not sure about the format yet. Will add info from http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1304 to make this more precise.

Igiss 12:21, 14 May 2008 (GMT)

Please have a look at Liberty Player Factions for a format proposal. I took the time to format the factions that were there into a sortable table.

I like the idea to put Affiliation there instead of Alignment, that would make the Outcasts/Corsairs easier to classify.

Is the list you put up composed of official factions only, or does it contain unofficials, too?

Nodwick 08:40, 14 May 2008 (GMT)

Table is better. But I'd suggest to add a new page for it like Factions Table to keep the current list. We (admins) may have certain use for it later.

Also, separate page with table will allow to make it all sortable (include all 32 factions without separating them into houses).

I'd suggest the following table column order: Name, Tag, Affiliation, Home system, Description. Area is nice, but won't work for Hispania factions (which are not only in Hispania) and for factions like Junkers, Zoners etc.

Reference info for official factions is here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7453 most current. I used only factions listed on this page.

Igiss 12:49, 14 May 2008 (GMT)

Having the data redundant is a bad idea, I think, because in the long run, updates won't be done in both. That will either leave one massively outdated and the other one current (better case) or both in a very inconsistent state (worst case).

About the columns, those seem good, I'll update the pages as soon as I find the time.

Nodwick 09:01, 14 May 2008 (GMT)

How do you put the time stamp here? :)

Anyway, the list of approved factions is quite consistent, and admins would probably prefer to update it on forums instead of here. So, there will be a slight delay anyway. If the table will be compiled, it can be used as the main resource for factions, while my list will be used as backup (possibly for adding more info/admin notes). I'll just move current Player Factions to a new location, then move Factions Table to Player Factions.

Also I'd propose to remove links for NPC factions (if I'm not mistaken, they are placed in the "description" column, right?), most probably no one would ever add any detailed info on those.

Igiss

I just sign with 4 tildes (~) and the wiki fills in the rest. :)

NPC factions should get their own pages. They will probably be quite short, but that shouldn't stop us from adding them. After all, there is the page Defender (original), which is mostly interesting for people who don't use Discovery or who want to compare it with the Discovery version. I'm on the 'Wikipedia is not paper' side in this case.

Nodwick 09:54, 14 May 2008 (GMT)

Factions that might not be official

These factions have been merged here from the page Liberty Player Factions but were not in Igiss' list: King of Fighters, Liberty Police Incorporated, Xeno Alliance

I'm not sure if they are official, can anyone confirm?