This thread alongside all the discussion in it is pretty pointless. It's nothing we haven't seen before; it always turns into this 'Official factions need more shiny crap to attract players' argument with a handful of people going 'nuuu keep Freelancer free!'
By now folks like Govedo are already angrily hitting the reply button to call me any number of unsavoury things. Troll, asshat, hatemonger, Nazi - doesn't matter. I think everyone getting stuck in this conversational loop is missing the entire point of this server.
Roleplay.
This server is about roleplay. Y'know, playing a character, developing them, shaping them based on their experiences and all of that. It's not about which faction has the fancy toys and who has all the power. It's about roleplaying. I see everyone whine and moan about factions instead of getting to the cream of the game, and it's a little disturbing.
Furthermore, before I did drop the game, I noticed a trend amongst a few official factions which more or less said 'Screw indies, time for intrafaction RP'. Basically ignored everything that wasn't a) their friends OOC or b) in their faction, even going as far as to do this bogus preplanned 'roleplay' ignorant of everybody else in the region.
Really I'm not seeing many officials as deserving of more. :>
EDIT: Factions shouldn't be some entity above and beyond people. sucking up resources. Factions should only exist if they improve things - and if they don't, people can and will go indie.
