' Wrote:[*]Host one organized event per month

' Wrote:I don't understand the need you have to make everyone join an official faction, or any faction, for that matter. Let people be independent if they want to.

' Wrote:This is meant to be a place to have fun. Not a second job.

' Wrote:The reason so many people prefer being independent is they don't have to follow proper role play.

' Wrote:Hehe. I do not think you know me:)I am opposed to making people join factions. I stick for indies every chance I get. This is NOT about forcing indies to join factions.

If factions don't want to put up with these activity requirements, maybe they should cede some power.

' Wrote:This is meant to be a place to have fun. Not a second job.

' Wrote:So this is really about trying to take power away from factions by making the time requirements so high that all the factions will fail and then have no power. Very subtle.

' Wrote:So this is really about trying to take power away from factions by making the time requirements so high that all the factions will fail and then have no power. Very subtle.

' Wrote:Hehe. I do not think you know me:)I am opposed to making people join factions. I stick for indies every chance I get. This is NOT about forcing indies to join factions.

If factions don't want to put up with these activity requirements, maybe they should cede some power.

' Wrote:No, no, no, no strawmen please. Factions can and should have power. Just represent that power proportionately!

' Wrote:This isn't a job. We have lives, real jobs, wives, husbands, children, etc etc.

We come here to have fun. Your suggested standards, as Ath pointed out, kill over 75% of the current factions. Funny thing is, there are very few unofficial factions clamoring at the gates to replace those factions. Thus tech requests and faction to faction interaction would dry up.

In effect your suggestion kills the server. I know you'll claim that people just need to pick it up. Guess what? People play here as a past time, not as work.

Your required event per month merely puts more strain on faction leaders, who are already under the strain of recruiting, dealing with faction to faction role play, planning faction role play, dealing with tech requests, playing the game themselves, and having a life.

Do try to remember this server has a very had cap of 200 players online at the same time. With the number of official factions we have, we'd have to have an event every day or two for all of them to meet this requirement. Which means admins would have to kick people off the server to allow people participating in the event to get on. They don't do that because it is wrong. There is also the fact that not everyone here lives in the same time zone.

' Wrote:Your suggestion will make it impossible for any faction to remain official for very long without forcing indy players to join the player faction.

Thus role play immersion breaks down because everyone is claiming to be the highest ranking admiral or CEO of a corporation or the King of Kusari.