(12-13-2012, 03:53 PM)madvillain Wrote: The vast majority of the indies do their best to fit in the established RP , and don't need to be official because they function perfectly as a indie.
At the other hand there's faction players who act like asshats and give official factions a bad name.
The difference is , official faction players can be corrected if they show bad behaviour.
Indies don't have any responsibility's as Rodnas mentioned , that's why I think official factions should get more tools to deal with those cases.
Basically, I agree with this. ^^^^
As one of the leaders of the [LN] player faction, I see good and bad behavior from indies and official faction members regularly.
When one of mine, that is, an [LN] member, behaves in a way that is really not great, and it's brought to my attention, I generally try and correct this by speaking to the person in question, generally, within an official faction that has 'effective leadership', problems can be ended through communicating with people and making sure they know right from wrong.
With indies though, many seem to think that when an official faction member tries to "Give orders" to them, or get them to act in a way that makes sense for whatever ID they're flying with, that the official faction member is "being a jerk", and while that may be accurate sometimes, it usually isn't.
ON THE OTHER HAND, there are also indies out there who don't need too much direction/and or know how to work with official factions and act in a sensible manner.
Anyway onto the original point of this thread:
Lea, I'm not sure what you were trying to illustrate w/comparing indie activity to official faction activity. *shrugs*