Admin Notice: Factions

[Madvillain]

@Anaximander

You raise a very important point:
''You need to open the faction system up, be inviting to more players, and not take the douchebaggery to the next level. You still hold the most vital selling point: In Disco, gank is King and noone can gank like a faction with high numbers of dedicated players. Joining a faction most likely means dying less and killing more - two things a lot of Disco'ers fancy. Plus you get the privilege of being treated as an equal and actually RP'ed with by some of those players who "dislike indies". Try to kill off skype and use the forum and the game, where transparency and accountability is ensured. It's a law of nature that in the disco universe that any power that can be wielded will be wielded. You are very much on the wrong path if you think the answer is to give factions more power.''

The problem is , a lot of people feel looked down upon by official factions and in return , start looking down upon them, by ignoring their bids to apply common sense , by ignoring their bids to at least show the slightest of intend to RP, by totally ignoring ingame orders , and by acting dominant over official factions , while those -really- have to deal with the feedback of all the faction id carrying indies too , not just their faction members.

I do not think the problem lies in skype.
As far as I am aware all the popular ID's have their own skype channel where there can be a very transparant debate between indies and faction members/leaders equally.

Problems arise when there is a lack of communication, either on purpose or because out of ignorance about the ''whole picture''.
Someone said something interesting in a skype channel the other day:

''There are a few types of indy.
1. The indy who just hasn't thought about joining the faction.
2. The indy that hates the faction because big oppressive evil doers of evil and shit, yo. fite tha power. fuck tha police.
3. The type that would like to join the official faction, but perhaps has poor communication skills, or an inadequate grasp of the rules/RP, and feel they would be unwelcome.
4. The type that actually have joined the faction, and keep an indy cap along-side their official faction character.
5. The reasonable loners. (these people tend to listen and be cooperative)
6. The great unknowing. ''

number 2 is posing the only real problem to the server as a whole (especially when they are right! in some occasions they are in fact totally right about that! In that case the official faction(leader) in question is posing the problem by not following these guidelines that are in fact not only guidelines because they can result in the official faction losing its status)
The other ones can't and shouldn't be blamed for anything.
In some cases they just need extra attention and guidance.
That extra attention and guidance is what lured me into signing up for official factions back in the days.

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