Rule 4.1

[Baltar]

Ok ... I'm going against the grain here ... but I say leave it. The rule does not say you cannot be in more than two factions. It says you cannot be in more than two "system owning" factions.

Now the limit may not need to be two, but I'd say there does need to be some sort of limit. You shouldn't be able to be a member of EVERY system owning faction on the server. Personally, I don't see how anyone has the time to be dedicated to more than one or two anyway.

Here's one problem we'll run into: Each faction is required to have a certain number of members to be considered an official faction. Further ... each faction is required to have a certain number of active members to "own" a system. Just because you have the required number of members on your membership roles does not mean they are all active members.

Problem #2: Say you have a faction #1 with 10 members that own a system. Say you decide you want to own more than one system, so you create faction #2 and everyone that's a member of faction #1 joins faction #2 with new (different) characters. In effect, you are the same faction but own two systems ... especially if you claim factions #1 and #2 are allied.

Now ... if we say we get rid of this rule, lets consider changing the number of systems a faction can own. At a cost of 1 billion credits per system, we'd see quite a bit more trading going on by factions in order to purchase multiple systems.