Official Factions have the benefit of requesting specific bonuses to enhance their activity and roleplay. Once an Official Faction is approved, they will automatically be able to start requesting benefits. Requests can be both beneficial and detrimental, allowing you to adjust your ID lines and benefits in order to match the kind of group your ID represents. What about the poor indie player? Indies may receive a trickle down benefit from a perk chosen by the Official Faction representing their ID. The Staff will examine each approved perk and decide if a 'lesser' version of this perk might be suitable for the Open ID. Nevertheless, these perks are designed primarily to reward and promote activity for Official Factions.
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General Perk Information
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The perks listed below include the most frequently requested, but aren't limited to them.
RP should be something that takes place over a period of weeks and involve, if possible, in-game activity / events.
Perk requests can be made every two months by Official Faction 1IC & 2ICs.
Each perk request will be handled on a case by case basis.
Consider the indies when making a request, is there a lesser version of the perk they can benefit from?
Staff reserve the right to alter or remove any perk request.
Official Factions are a valued part of this server. In order to qualify for Officialdom, they must exhibit excellence in RP. They must be active. They must respond well to negative feedback. Any decision they make, whether good or bad, they have to live with. Since their standards are high, it has been hard for them to induce players to join. It's far easier to play an indie, where accountability is negligible and any bad decision can be erased with a name change. Therefore, the Staff wishes to implement this Official Faction Perk concept to the community in an effort to reward those that choose to live up to the high standards of becoming Official and to provide them a way to induce others to join their ranks.
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Mining Bonuses
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Mining Bonuses could previously be increased.
A change was made to give a flat bonus of x3.5 to all ores mineable by their respective Official Factions.
With well thought out roleplay, Official Factions can obtain technology exemptions.
This means being able to use your allies' guns, ships and equipment.
Requests where the exemption doesn't make sense will be rejected.
Such as Liberty Navy requesting use of Rheinland Military technology.
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Zone of Influence Extensions
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Official Factions can potentially see some real movement with their faction and lore with an expanded zone of influence.
Limits include House Military / Police factions cannot have Sirius wide ZOI.
Tweaks that can be made here and there based on RP.
Factions with a Sirius wide ZOI could request to perform certain actions in specific systems.
This is a request that would have to be the most cautiously implemented as it could disrupt game balance severely.
Small, carefully considered tweaks are probably best.
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Bounty Increases
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Increased payouts when killing NPCs hostile to the Official Faction.
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Ship Class, Cargo and Named Ships
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Factions that have a limited ship-line would benefit most with this.
Take advantage of their relationships with other factions and upgrade their ID's to allow for heavier class ships.
Inversely, you may request to have ship classes removed from your ID.
Cargo limits can also expanded or reduced.
Named ships can be added to the ID, bypassing any ship class or cargo limits.
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Custom Equipment
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High level of roleplay is required to obtain custom equipment.
Will be heavily scrutinized by the balance team to ensure balance and economy remain unbroken.
Custom equipment is included, but not limited to:
Brand new equipment.
Upgrade / sidegrade of existing equipment.
Bespoke player base factory with exclusive craft recipes.
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Restart Ships
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A "restart" ship that's preconfigured with the faction's navmap, equipment and ship.
Cannot include any equipment of value or unreasonable reputation / map.
These restarts will be not be accessible to public, and each faction restart will be password protected.
Intended to ease the process of setting up new characters for members of the official factions.
Does not require roleplay & is exempt from the two month cooldown (if adjustments need to be made)
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How to Lose Perks Quickly
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Perks will be removed if an Official faction's conduct proves harmful to the server, such as:
OORP hate manifesting itself as Meta-gaming / Power-gaming.
Breaking server rules in the use of any perks one might receive.
Low Activity in the Official Faction.
If the perk is discovered to create a severe game imbalance.
Staff reserve the right to remove any perk if they see that it creates harm to the server.
If an Official Faction is found abusing their perks, each offense is handled by:
Loss of that perk.
Loss of all perks.
Loss of Officialdom.
If a faction loses a perk in this manner, they will have to wait an additional two months from the date of its removal before applying for an additional one.
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