Faction Activity - January

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You could ask indies what would make them join a faction rather than speculate about it. Just a thought.

The problem is that official factions can't offer anything substantial over indie factions. They're expected to uphold roleplay standards, and as such have to be somewhat restrictive in what a member can and can't do - indies can do whatever the [censored] they like. In a sense, joining an official faction means limiting your own freedom.

There's just so much more you can do as an indie. You can dock on Junker bases as a Rogue escaping the cops without causing the Congress any real diplomatic issues as they can just shrug it off as "Well, indies can't be controlled". The other way around: if you, as a random independent Junker, smuggle Cardamine and get caught? No big deal. A personal FR5 at the very worst, and that's still probably not gonna happen. The Congress, however, would have to talk its way out as the repercussions could be severe for them if they ever get caught.

I'm sure anyone can come up with plenty more examples.

All an official faction can hope to offer is what any faction should offer: a bunch of players with similar interests to fly with. However, official status doesn't help at all there.

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