Statement: Players and Factions must have more influence on what is going on, their actions must be reflected.
Totally wrong, stupid and narrow minded assumption it is. This won't work. The balance between players per all factions is totally broken and not working at all (and not going to work in either way in the any future prediction). Players can move between factions freely or can be out of faction completely.
Also the original idea was that player population (those barely 1000, well, 300-400 to be honest, more realistically - around 200 maybe) is just a tiny bit in the ocean of the NPCs. Thus can't influence things directly, nor indirectly. The storyline and the changes are being developed out of concrete gameplay concepts and not out of what is going on on server. The gameplay and storyline just provides the playground sandbox for the players to play in withing the provided roles.
Now if we go on the concept of bigger influence then we can get into the problem of some factions being overpopulated and some being none populated at all. Now how does this going to work? If straight away then we'll have overpopulated factions dominating over low populated and none populated factions. If with limitations then idea is going to be obsolete since overpopulated factions won't get the influence they want.
Both ways are stupid waste of time and effort. Gameplay must be the thing players have nothing to do with, have no influence on and be just under it's rules and limitations because gameplay is always a limitations.
Now a little comment on all those yelling "limiting caps". Gentlemen. Capital ships are already limited by the money factor. Cau and cap itself costs a nice share of cash which takes some time to get. However the process of getting cash here is a pure grind procedure. But we're on RP server. The proposed limitations are adding to RP limitations on the capital ship availability. Mean, additional to the cash you will have to RP on RP server. I have an idea. Let's sanction everyone who refuse to RP on RP server just for the nice sweet start.
