No you are looking at the problem from a wrong angle.
We have a boom in unofficial groups forming up and rp'ing. Look at the Open Market, Player Base and in the Communication Channel. The will is there for players to form up and play in groups and to RP (and by using tags they are being accountable for their actions too, voluntarily), problem is that official factions do not seem to attract those players at the moment. So the emphasis should be on how to make official factions more open/welcoming so people choose to join existing factions rather than just forming their own.
