Admin Notice: Faction Statuses Revoked; Warnings for Inactivity

[Hone]

And you get to give blanket bounties

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User was banned for: Griefing others
Time left: (Permanent)

[Penpen]

I guess We've got the XA out of trouble for now. 30 hours it was, right? We're good then.

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[SnakThree]

If the faction struggles to hit 30 hours and is aiming only to be official, that's rather filling unplayed spot :/

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[Enoch]

If the faction struggles to hit 30 hours and is aiming only to be official, that's rather filling unplayed spot :/

If a faction manages to hit 30 hours, no matter how much it struggles, no matter how many unofficial groups are waiting to take the spot, the faction remains official. There's nothing more to add.

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[DarthBindo]

If the faction struggles to hit 30 hours and is aiming only to be official, that's rather filling unplayed spot :/

Maybe, but there's not too many people hustling to make a Xeno faction.

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gone four years, first day back: Zoners still getting shot in Theta :|

[Penpen]

We've been hit with Rl issues mostly. We're a bunch of 7, 8 people that love the Xenos RP. Yet, the lack of new game content aswell as the flood of RUS)) traders that don't want to talk in general, hit us hard. It's frustrating to be a Libertonian these days. But it's still fun to be a Xeno. Best faction i've been in for over a year.
We don't 'struggle', we're just not 15 anymore and have tons of time to spend. This is about it.
Also: Summer

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[SnakThree]

Yeah. Thought so. Sorry for quite out of place comment. Hey. I heard XA has many targets to choose from in fights. I like diversity. Gonna join to help ya then.

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[Penpen]

You gotta like the Xenos. If you're annoyed by being attacked wherever you are, it's definitly nothing you should ever try. However, we're not a faction, but rather a big family. A big family and Joe:P

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[SnakThree]

You gotta like the Xenos. If you're annoyed by being attacked wherever you are, it's definitly nothing you should ever try. However, we're not a faction, but rather a big family. A big family and Joe:P

Hey. My nick is just for XA! YAY!

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[fencore]

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.