Admin Notice: Factions

[Pavel]

... if folk can think of activity boosters that do not rely on any new goods or FLHook being created, feel free to share thoughts.

remove Food Rations commodity from the game. Keep Paste and Rice, Buff Paste routes. Activity boost for LWB and FA ( or do you consider merging LWB with hessians?...)

As for the AFA... another victim of the indy pirate ID is my personal feel on it.

not only them, de facto all unlawful factions suffer from that.


As for people joining factions, there needs to be a motivator to do so. IMG| tends to do well because of 2 things: We run coordinated, protected convoys that almost always make their destination, and have frequent (semi) organized pews, usually with the Outcasts Tauside. Generate such events on a regular basis, invite your indies, make some screenshots to show people the result and invite more to join the fun the next time. Even getting wiped out can be quite fun if you've had a good brawl prior to it (going in with the expectation of eventually getting blown up is a nice mindset for such events).

the Guild has excellent leaders, who know what they do. But you can't organise people in an unattractive faction, Kruger let's say. At this moment there's no reason to play as Kruger, while IMG in this mod version got bonus to every single real ore on the server except Aluminium and Helium-3, while having zoner-like diplomacy with many unlawfuls, capitals in the ID, own shipline and possibility of trading in every house including Gallia in a 5ker, and lack of sworn enemy ("may treat as combat targets IMG IDed vessels"), what means IMG player always have an option to pay, he won't hear just "die IMG!"
In such situation that would be difficult to not have people playing as IMG, while house mining factions are dying.

I also hope you're not talking about official factions, because forcing certain groups of people to work together against their will wouldn't end well, trust me.

Of all people , official faction leaders shóuld work together.
If any leader has a problem with that he ain't fit for the job.

heres my idea:

Stop letting indies use ID's other than freelancer.

If they want the perks of a faction ID they can join the faction that works hard to keep the ID.

yeah I dislike Indies.

This would actually save a lot of bullshit.
It's not like the freelancer ID leaves you with too limited options.
Better communication would keep things like fair play and stuff like that easier to manage.

In return official factions(leaders) should be way more responsible,
there should be harsher rules keeping them (and especially their leaders)
in line, and punishments for malicious behaviour.

And I do not dislike Indies at all.
There's just a overkill of indies present at the server.

If some factions would radiate a different attitude there would be way more faction members though.
Factions should be open to the input of it's members , not just a faction leader's private army.
remember it's supposed to be fun and entertaining , not for the select few but for everyone who's not here to take joy out of ruining someone's disco experience.

edit: sorry for going a bit off topic, I'm not pointing fingers at any of the factions listed here, but in my opinion these things are related to the shrinking of official faction numbers.

Joey said exactly what I think. If you, admins, have problem with faction leader being complete retard, you should be able to dismiss him. More power for officials, but not without more responsibilities, and more power for admins over faction leaders.