Admin Notice: Factions

[Madvillain]

Right now there is no reason to join faction.. if you can do all as indie.. and even don't care what faction tells you.

That's pretty much it.

On the other hand giving an absolute, total control over factions to official factions is something I definitely do not want to see. Some of the current, new faction leaders just scare the hell out of me with their inexistant capabilities of leadership.

When on a regular basis the most active faction players are threatened to be kicked out from the faction just because they didn't agree with the faction leader on a totally irrelevant matter, I certainly wouldn't, ever want to see this extended to the whole playerbase of a faction.

That's why faction leaders should be under more supervision.
If a couple of bad faction leaders manage to kill off entire houses activity,
they should be punished , easy as that.
Many people squeezed in that faction leader spot , and once there , don't do anything productive at all.

4.4 Administrators reserve the right to limit recruiting for certain official player factions for a certain period of time to keep server factions balanced.

This rule could be enforced if seen that one faction has a huge growth on the expense of other factions dying.

4.7 Official player factions have authority over players of the same NPC affiliation, as long as RP justification is provided. This authority applies in forums and in-game, and applies to player faction diplomacy, and strategic and tactical direction. However, exercise of that authority, on the forums and in game, is restricted to official faction members with the rank of the official faction leader and one rank below him/her. The authority may be exercised through the use of in-game in-RP orders, which, if not obeyed, can result in in-game in-RP consequences (arrest, court martial, and even "lethal" force in extreme circumstances). Official player factions cannot, under any cicrumstances, require another player to follow non-canon RP if that player doesn't want to.

With this authority comes great responsibility.
A responsibility some leaders can't handle.
Instead of removing the responsibility , remove the horsepoo leaders and if that doesn't help , revoke the factions official status.

4.10 Official player factions may request that the reputation of a player's ship be changed to hostile with respect to their NPC faction.

Remove the ''with respect to their NPC faction'' part.
It makes totally no sense , and can lead to extremely frustrating situations, where people make a indie character of the same ID as the official faction with the only intention being to undermine official authority, and trolling around.
In it's current state, it makes rule 4.7 worthless.

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