Faction Activity - January

[St.Denis]

I have been running a Faction (GMS|) for approx 18 months now. At no time have I ever thought of making the Faction Official.

People have often suggested that I make GMS| Official and when I asked why they have said:

You get FR5 rights.
You get a free CAP 8
You can be on the Official Faction Leader Skype Chat.
You can help mold the future of your Faction within the Story.
You can post Blanket Bounties.

My answer has always been what do I miss not having FR5 rights. As far as I am concerned - absolutely nothing.

As for getting a free CAP 8 - no big deal as I can afford plenty of them (if I wanted them).

Being on the Official Faction Leader Skype Chat - I can't miss something I have never had.

As for molding the future of the GMS Faction - I was always happy to go with it as it was and if somebody came along and made an Official GMS Faction I would have been happy for them.

Blanket Bounties - If I want to Bounty somebody or more than 1 person I can put up multiple Bounties. It just requires a bit more writing in the Forums.

That is all the positives for being Official.

Now to the negatives.

I would have had to do numerous Faction Pages for the History of the Faction, Ranking Systems, Bounty Boards, Recruitment Pages, Feedback, keep the Wiki updated etc.

I would have to make sure that I had 5 active members and that Faction's activity was kept above 30 hours/month.

Being Unofficial I don't have to worry about logging certain ships each month to keep up the hours. If I don't want to log those ships for a few weeks then I don't. I don't have to chase the other members of GMS| to make sure that they keep their hours up also. We are a loose group of people who log when we want and work together when we do and have achieved quite a bit, in our eyes, over this time. I do some Forum RP, at times, even though I don't have any fancy signatures or transmission bars I think I get my message over and people respond.

So all in all what have I lost, if anything, with not becoming Official?

As far as I can see I have saved myself a lot of time with which I can spend more time enjoying the game.

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