Admin Notice: Factions

[Durandal]

That and there's too many of them. Planetform, Synth, Ageira... these are all niche factions which frankly, can be merged into/made subsidiaries of respectively Bowex, Universal and DSE. I'm sure there'll be some strong opinions about this, but frankly, we don't NEED a crapload of house haulers. 2 per house more then suffices. Kruger and ALG merging was also something that was thought of.

Oh, okay. So you're trying to tell me that a corporation with the know how to terraform entire planets would be bought up by a shipping corporation. Or the sole faction capable of constructing lanes and gates for that matter.

I've got a better idea. Allow people to hire these factions. Allow people to hire Planetform for terraforming operations, allow people to hire Ageira to construct gates and lanes. Allow people to hire DSE to turn their playerbases into permanent ones.

Stop keeping this stranglehold on every little microcosm of Discovery, devteam. Player facilitated change is what drives people to do great things, instead of just random krieg or sitting around and cybering.

Set up a proper system for it. ie; Planetform is contracted to terraform a world, like they currently have been with Murilo. They construct a playerbase in orbit of the planet and deliver a specific amount of goods to it and get paid a certain amount of money from their employers each month until the next mod version, with which the planet draws closer to completion, going from say a frozen wasteland to a Harris type planet, or an ocean one to a Los Angeles type one.

The same system can be applied to permanent bases, jumpgates, and tradelanes. Stop trying to point the finger elsewhere. If you want people to continue playing this game, you're going to need to loosen your grips and allow people to change things.

If there are any factions that should be merged, it's the generic trade ones, of which Gateway/Bowex and Universal/Interspace fit the bill. The in RP tensions between Kishiro/Samura and DHC/Kruger should be kept in place.