Nomads: indies vs. officials

[Treewyrm]

The title is quite misleading though - one might think it's one of those where two "camped mindsets" bash each other and nothing comes out. It still remains to be seen what can come out of this one though, but at least it's not about bashing anyone, at least shouldn't be.

Anyway, the one part I don't like myself is this one:

"But officials have to answer for everything what indies do"

Why? If say I take harby for a flight to Bretonia and, following this idea, I have to answer for everything what indies may do - I'll simply take none of them along then, for such clause would essentially mean I have to put same amount of trust into them as I would into members of the faction. But I would not. With members there is control and there is a very real possibility of being kicked out if a person decides to do something bad, with indies however there is none, a character might be expendable to the person playing it, and a such they wouldn't care what they do - responsibility, as you put it this way, would befall on a faction instead.