Flying Tigers

[Xoria]

9. As a member of the FTS, you must agree to full account dedication in regards to faction tagging. We will not allow members to belong to the FTS and other factions at the same time. Alternate untagged characters offer a good change of pace but please DO NOT show any hostility or be negative to a tagged FTS member when untagged. Review the rules regarding alignment and IDs for the untagged ships.

Well I went back and read the faction post again, and this is the only thing that really jumps out at me as problematic.
Those two parts in bold are actually mutually exclusive.
If John Q. Shipper joins [FTS] and also has an independent pirate/unlawful character, then it is contrary to good roleplay for him to just ignore / or assist [FTS] when they come along. This introduces a serious potential for unlawful characters to be assisting lawful ones contrary to "alignment and IDs".
For example, John Q. Shipper could be playing in his Liberty Rogue character and when other Liberty Rogues try to pirate [FTS] transports, John Q. Shipper [Rogue] can pipe up and say, "Hey, I just taxed them, leave them alone", because he wants his friends in [FTS] to not be taxed.
Now you can say that you are not that kind of players, and I am not accusing you of being that sort of players, since in fact I have never even seen your crew on the server yet. But the problem still is that your own faction requirements create this possibility by failing to distinguish between players and characters. They are not the same thing at all. There are plenty of players on this server who are allies and friends as certain characters, and are bitter enemies as other characters. It works fine and it actually creates more fun because once you have worked alongside someone, you trust them when you are fighting against them to be a good sport and play fairly. If it is just one sided all the time then it can create real life bitterness against other players caused by always being on opposite sides of the roleplaying fence.
I personally, have a couple of traders whose names are known only to myself and no other member, and I have actually been pirated in those traders by members of my own Lane Hacker clan that I am the leader of ! Not at any time did I try to get out of it by saying, "Hey, this is your LH faction leader, bugger off." I gave the pirates a run for their money and they still don't know it was me.
Frankly, this clause is contrary to the spirit of roleplaying and creates bad incentives and unhealthy potential for problems.
Besides which, how exactly are you going to enforce this? You don't know who a player's characters are unless he tells you or gives you access to his account. And even then he can have multiple accounts that you don't know about. You are just creating an incentive for players to start lying about their activities, and lies always snowball into other problems.
So to sum up,
1. Players and characters are NOT the same thing and should not be regulated as if they are
2. This restriction incentivizes out of roleplay behavior
3. This restriction provides an incentive for deceit among your members
4. This restriction runs contrary to the accepted roleplaying norm at Discovery, and won't be accepted by the already established members here.

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