' Wrote:I think you should be given leading of an official faction for let's say week so you realise what you're talking about.

You would have to try to find active people to do something in group but find out half of them dissapear or went doing something else, browse through the 10 technology requests of the week, check the FR5 requested by your faction and indies and look at each screenshot and have your own opinion on the matter then make a thread for each with proper formatting, uploaded pics and description. Then being insulted because one of your member did something apparently bad to another player (usually ganker ganked) and decides to put the whole faction in the same bucket so you waste one hour of your life talking through it. What next ? Oh yeah, faction relations. There's always at least one or two comm threads per week directed to the HC of an official faction. Now it's time to check the applications, verify who's active and who isn't, update the roster, correct the wiki and discuss suggestions for activity with your high command.

Oh wait, it's already bed time.

' Wrote:"With great power comes great responsibility."

' Wrote:And to think that I'm going to make another faction.

' Wrote:If you can do it better than the current official factions then go ahead. :D

' Wrote:You've always been crazy so I'm not surprised:D

' Wrote:Now I know it's of a rather significant point of importance that our official factions maintain their activity. I think the 30 hour rule is well fit enough for the purposes of showing a reasonable and attainable amount of play time to keep in touch with the goings-on on the server. Given some recent thought and a turn of perspective at playing among other communities, I do, however, feel that keeping solely to this 30 hour rule provides too much room for a faction to hold on to its status without contributing meaningfully to the server's roleplay base.

Has the administration considered adding a few more requirements to the criteria for an official faction to stay as such, regarding forum-based roleplay and a faction tieing their forum and server presences together as well? Or, more directly, has there been thought to placing a general guideline/requirement on official faction to demonstrate positive and constructive roleplay within the community?

The vast majority of us consider official factions to be the roleplay base for their particular NPC faction. That's why we have our faction rights, and I do believe there's a pinned thread somewhere in this moving chaos we call a forum under construction that states as such. If an official faction is to hold such a responsibility, does the administration ever check back up on the recent goings-on with a faction every once in a while to check that they're holding to the example the administrators want them to set?

Granted, I'm not behind the scenes, but I have this impression that unless a faction does something horribly and utterly catastrophic, y'all don't really poke your noses in again once official status has been reached, and even then the vote generally seems to be a matter of meeting the 30 hour rule to begin with.

I ask these questions in the name of ensuring that our official factions are held to the highest standards, my own included. We need to be kept on watch to be sure that we're providing the roleplay that's meeting the approval of the administration. Personally, I'd like to see a more active role in the administration working to observe a balance between time online and given roleplay within the faction and among other factions.

That said, now to a different note entirely. I know we've got the scheme so that an unofficial faction can challenge the currently official faction for a spot, but there's been kind of a grey area regarding the two IDs that still have multiple factions attached, the Corsairs and Zoners of course. I think we've all managed to reach a state of begrudging equilibrium at the very least, but what would happen if an unofficial faction were to gain enough steam to challenge for the spot? Would that result in the removal of all three factions?

Edit: Also, I really think this thread would be better served being moved to the Faction forum overview board. It's kinda buried down here. That's just my humble opinion, of course.

' Wrote:Maybe, in the future. Currently, the present officialty system is too distasteful for me to want to. I am posting these threads to try to improve the "taste," not to poison the brew.

' Wrote:Currently, the present officialty system is too distasteful for me to want to.

' Wrote:What's distasteful about it? What would you change?

' Wrote:I hone