Setting official faction activity minimum at 48 hours?

[Echo 7-7]

Well, or that.
But the time limit that is preventing other faction going official should be definitely higher.
Also, the decision of making or not making a new faction official one should be based on the, let's say, (as an example) past 2 months, that would prevent things like "ohnoez we're being challenged let's log in more this month and then go into hibernation mode again".

So if you're keeping yourself under the limit, you face a constant risk of losing officialty. Well, can add an option that allow currently official faction to compete even after the Officialty request from another party has been posted on forums (IF it'd get approved), but that will make things go too slowly, imho. Like, certain faction keeping itself under limit for 2, or 2-3, or 3 out of 4, whatever (numbers are an example) months, then there's a request by another worthy faction, then at least 2-, months to watch for the activity levels of currently official faction... that's 4 months already. And even that won't prevent em from spending *slightly* more time in-game for 2 months, if the limit will be low enough.

No faction would intentionally keep itself under the limit. Sometimes, individuals just don't have time to play. It's not as if they have a group gathering and say "let's all play less for the next month because no one is challenging our official status".

There are always activity fluctuations during the year, which are influenced by holidays (more activity), school & university exams (less activity), and so on. If a majority of a faction is busy inRL, why penalise them for that? I reiterate that it is only fair to compare factions for active time when comparing two factions that are using the same ID. 30 hours of IMG activity is totally different from 30 hours of LN activity. A saying about apples and oranges comes to mind.

I agree that a line has to be drawn somewhere, and I am in favour if it being closer to the 24 hour mark than raising it above 30 hours. Conversely, it would be more beneficial to reward factions for being more active, not punish them for being less active. Faction salary scaled according to days active, perhaps?

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