Faction Activity - January

[Laura C.]

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

I'm actually planning to do this, hopefully I can publish the results later today.

Please do. Personally, I'm very interested in helping out official factions in a way that doesn't alienate indie players.

It can be interesting. But...
I don´t want to be rude, but don´t you think that effort to doesn't alienate the indies brought us where we are now? That officials have problem to keep five active players? That 80 % of online players in the evening are indies? And seriously, how much factions have more than TEN active players. ..:J:.., IMG, GMG...maybe two or three more?

For example I personally don´t propose some strict restriction like "allow indies just HF, light bombers and freighters". But imagine that for example indies of trader corps would have maximum of 1 000 cargo units less than officials. That makes 4 000 cargo units for most of them. Is that really hard hit for indie players? Even Junker and IMG ID have just little more maximum at the moment.

So indies could have ALMOST same gear like officials. But I bet that lot of them would want to join official factions after some time on server just to be able fly the most shiny (or in this case the biggest) ships, despite the difference in cargo space would not be big.

As was said. Officials need something special, something what will attract players, so they will want join official factions themself.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.