Tracking official factions online tame is irrelevant.

[sindroms]

Greets.


Before you reply, mind you I am making this thread as someone who has been in a faction, who has lead a faction and someone who has plenty of indies. I have nothing against official or unofficial factions, this thread is subjective, yes, but is not built on some sort of agenda, something that a few people have blamed me for recently.




Now then, we all know that Official factions have a special place here on Disco. Admin-approved groups with the right to evolve and shape the future of their NPC factions lore is; in some cases they could make up the majority of the active playerbase of an ID, not counting the invite-only factions, and some are but a speck in their player pool. Faction activity tends to fluctuate a lot not only depending on the month, most of our players being highschool age after all, but also on what is going on in the particular region that ID covers.


My question is this, while no doubt deciding on faction activity via ingame time tracker is the easiest choice, does it really reflect the impact the faction has on the progression of the lore of the ID they chose to represent?



Quite a few arguments have been raised about whether the active official factions do not stagnate, their activity being only ONE of the many ways to judge their impact on their ID. The question I ask you here is pretty straight forward: Shouldn't we judge the RP activity of a player faction rather than crude online time? While it is true that a faction of 3 active people is a sad thing to see, wouldn't it be a good thing to have 3 active people who constantly participate in forum and ingame roleplay scenarios, create events, progress the NPC faction they represent in a whole rather than just disbanding that faction altogether? Even more so, while the larger official factions have no need to worry about their rights being taken away due to ingame inactivity, do they really deserve them if they, quote, sit on their laurels and contribute nothing apart from ingame activity? I am not saying that ingame activity is bad, no dobut that the majority of a factions impact comes from ingame interaction between their members and the rest of the server, but shouldn't we give them a nudge and remind them that they need to move their lore forward in a much more active manner?


I talked to a few people about this and one thing did come up. People are afraid of change, especially when we had such a nice example of how devastating change can be to a faction, namely the Order as an NPC faction. After the destruction of Minor, the faction activity, especially indie activity, plummeted. Is our community really that scared of the consequences of making changes to their RP to mix things up a bit? Is the overall contribution from a faction purely its ingame activity they show in either doing convoys or raids? Or is there perhaps a bit more they could do to actually have the right to carry the name Official Faction?


I realize how much thought and effort has been put in the creation of a faction and to promote it to its officialdom. However, shouldn't that same drive persist throughout its life? The faction rules clearly state that apart from all sorts of rights, they do have responsibilities. Then why do we judge official factions purely by ingame time?



Discuss.

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