concerning factions and their influence

[Sarawr!?]

I don't think it is reasonable when factions choosing to operate in a certain way and struggle with activity and find it hard to recruit members because of it then ask for other players' roleplay to be hampered. That is too unambitious.

Oh I agree with this for sure, but that's a problem for individual faction leaders to rectify, and not really something that involves external hands (like the devteam or admins). If a faction is struggling with activity or with retaining members, then they're obviously doing something wrong, (or their particular play style doesn't appeal to very many), and their leaders should step back and take a look at what they could change, or what they could do to encourage people to fly more, and to join their faction at all.

That's something that I had to do when I was the leader of the SCRA|, I did some very unpopular things in an effort to try and encourage more people to join, and to see that faction as a good option, and it worked, to some degree, for a little while.

I had relaxed the recruitment "standards", and made the whole process a little bit more "newbie friendly".

Some factions are fairly newbie friendly, the [LN] is one of those. Some factions are not newbie friendly, and generally they suffer with smaller numbers and lower activity for that.

I would encourage all factions to endeavor to be "newbie friendly", but that again, is each individual faction leader's choice to make, as it should be.

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[LN] Recruitment | Rachel Baker Bio