I think a lot of people are really off the mark. I think indies in general do things just as well as faction-people. I have had ridiculous nonsensical encounters with both official faction players and indies, really. Only difference is that indies might be a bit more humble. Also take a look at the lolwuttery of the Zoner-Corsair disagreement and how that panned out over 60 pages of OORP rage - please don't tell me that official faction people are more sensible etc. than indies...