@Mad: yet - there are some that either demand, wish or agree that we require a change of rules of circumstances in order to save those factions.
i do not deny that rules need to evolve with time - but not as a savior of factions. factions can only save themselves by playing their strength without trying to make others weaker or playing to others weaknesses.
however - suit yourselves - each occasion where a selected group had enjoyed more freedom than others has failed so far - and i don t mean a mini faction vs. a generic one - i mean the rock hard rules within each faction.
a gaian IDed player must always be treated the very same like another gaian ID player, no matter if one of them has a tag and the other one has not.
ps.: madvillain, post #30 - you agree to deny non-factionized players the right to obtain a faction ID and leave them the only choice of a generic one. edit: yes - its different and actually not what i wrote before about "inner faction equality" - but really... its on the same page. it says "official factions gain an advantage over non-factionized players - no matter what" - you have not come up with exceptions and if there had to be exceptions ( like non-factionized players with faction IDs ) - how/who would decide on them.
anyway - that is a simple announcement of factions that do not meet the requirements. - what more is there to say. there are requirements to keep a status, and those requirements are not met. they were met at an earlier time - ( when the requirements were the very same ) - so what changed if it had not been the circumstances - unless the death of a faction is caused by the storyline or added / removed features of the game.