Actually the "game", any metaphysical game you can think about is a set of rules and limitations. Without limitations there is no game. Limitations here allow us to have a more immerse RP surroundings, like we know that there is a fixed and relatively small amount of battleships inRP even for such house as Liberty so it strikes me deep when I see them on every corner. But then people go further and put their totally oorp battleship hordes as actual RP essence and start talking about changing something in relation to this.
And what about factions? Factions are not necessary. You have mystical rights to control something yet there is nothing to control. And no one that would follow you anyway. The only thing is a TAG which allows you to /fm and /fi. Apart from that you don't even need a tag as a whole since it is, in fact, a shiny neon sign over your head while someone taps "Y". Well known factions are bound and forced to use a tag in order to have their activity tracked and this makes them to be very vulnerable to this, yet we can't do anything with "Y" list. And shouldn't actually. So it's a dead end. We have 120 players top online yet 30 of them are in conn so it's not easy to find an activity.
Continuing about the factions. Responsibility. As being said. Yes. If you're an official faction you have to pass all the odd procedures of registration just to get a pain on your poor arse and separate section on forum that people barely visit anyway. It was better to have all official faction's MDs in one section, all faction's descriptions in another one. And all the RP in comm channel. Now we have a very hairy part of the forum people barely even try to visit that makes this official faction's advantage to be void. With all MDs in one place you could go between them fast, see which faction have the most recent MD, etc. This was simply better. However it's a clear trend to see the changes being implemented just for reason of implementing something no matter it's necessary or not. GG on that. The mod is not feeling any better then 4.85 while becoming heavy out of content.
Now on overall game.
I will repeat myself and, since this reply won't change anything anyway, I won't waste a lot of words.