Official Faction Spring Cleaning

[Reverend Del]

the idea is good. - and what i like most about it... a fair approach towards the new factions. ( especially when they ask themselves why get i rejected when an old faction is basicly the same .... well, in terms of how carried away the ideas are )

what i am concerned about is - no matter how hard you try to keep it civil, - there will be hard feelings. it allready starts when someone utters "darkwing" - without a proper and plausible explanation behind that comment.

what i d wish it to become is a constructive discussion - which involves constructive critizism but also open minded factions. - its not a one way road to go. old habits won t die easily, but the factions must be up to make sometimes drastic changes which will often lead to extreme limitations. if everyone is up for that, - it may turn out to be beneficial. - if even some are not up for it.... it ll rather turn into a detrimental flaming with some "new enemies" afterwards.

I think it's safe to say that hard feelings will be a product of this, but that should not deter us from this course of action, fair and equitable treatment for all should be the name of the game.

As I said, we should avoid calling specific incidents to mind and focus on the general shape of the faction, treat it as if it was a new proposal, and give it the same treatment, there's no factions so poor as the Black Lagoon, or the LRDN proposals on the Faction Status page, so most of them will not get a harsh treatment, but this should be about scraping the barnacles off the bottom, as it were, really giving these factions a good hard look at where they are and how they go about doing the things they do.

I don't really see the need for this ... Hoodlum already keeps a close eye on the factions from what I can tell and if they go inactive or have not been updated then they get a warning to get it sorted or loose there faction status ...

Why should old factions have to resubmit there faction status if everything is in order anyway? seems pointless.

I'd invite you to take a look at the Faction Status page, some of those have not been updated for a while, plus I think that this would enable the community to see how these factions are holding up, as is said so often in new proposals, it's the community that has to deal with them, interact with them and so forth. But there is no place to go to bring particular issues to light re:overall status. You have to PM an Admin about it or start a flame war in the forums, this would be a polite way of getting all the factions to the same stringent level as any of the newer factions which are being posted.

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