I must +1 here. I like the proposal/rant a lot, it is well thought and make a lot of sense.
I must also give another PoV.
Why we talk about unique ships as thing that belongs only to single person/player?
From my PoV it is a way more logical to have Faction Unique ships. Like the faction leadership is passed from one player to other the unique faction ship is passed to the newer generation of faction players. Using this model the activity issue of the said ship should not exist.
If the devs/admins/whatever that have the right to decide allow again unique faction ships this would fix two problems- first is the return of the said ships second is the bad official faction activity and the lack of official faction perks.
This bonus would stack up together with level 5 PoB bonus so there would be any real benefit to be part of the official faction instead indie player of the said faction.
If the unique ships are not official faction only then the official faction should have some advantage in the application process considering that they are more likely to keep the ship in-game for longer period of time compared to single individual.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
