Official Faction Spring Cleaning

[Reverend Del]

Is that a metaphor for a euphemism for forcing them?

I don't mean to offend you, Del, and I certainly don't want to hurt you in any way, but I believe that my point stands.

We're all obsessed with making things better that we're forgetting the fact that this is a GAME. People don't have the time and ability to turn this game into a full time job. This obsession with making things better, and etc... is coming into conflict with a lot of the freedoms of the people involved here.

If something needs to be addressed in a certain faction, address it in that particular faction. Don't make it a universal thing and pull everyone down with one issue. Make it an option to be able to submit a particular faction to evaluation or something...

I'll cite the BPA itself as an example. We once considered the use of Gunboats, but then after members of the community suggested against their use, we gave up the idea. There. It was simple, easy, and stress free. We smoothed out what could have been a potentially oorp problem for the BPA.

Your idea is swell, but the thing is, it's not a vaccination. It's rabies shot that you give to factions with the problem, not before it happens.

There's no point in submitting every single faction several painful needle jabs to the stomach for no good reason.

If this goes ahead, great. Just don't pull everyone down with it.

My point is that the BPA and other factions had to go through stringent tests and hoops to get approval. A bunch did not. There is no where to take up the matter with other factions, most factions do not have a thread you can go to to say, "hey I don't like this about your faction, can you address my concern". The LSF does but that used to be sub titled "Whine here". Hardly constructive. Usually this manifests itself in a thread that starts up becasue Faction A did something that player B is not happy with. Result: Trial by Forum and a flame war, topic gets locked and nothing gets done.

The reason that this has been suggested is because there is no comeback for an official faction, so long as it has the members, it stays. The admins do not have the time to watch every single faction, we the players, do. I'm playing a game, yes, but I'm playing a game that has a player base of some 2000 people. It is imperative that we are all held to the same standards when it comes to factions, is it fair that Faction A is just there whilst Faction B went through four weeks of hellish waiting? No. Is it fair that Faction A could just put up it's faction status without issue, and that Faction B had to meet targets and waypoints set by the Admins? No. Fairness is not a right, but here in this community it should be a standard.

All factions require feedback to avoid complacency and stagnation. As the system stands there is no feedback.

This would not apply to any factions created after the Admins took sole charge of approving factions, so the BPA, the GC and any faction currently with a thread in the Faction Creation sub-forum would not have to go through this, as they have already recieved the full going over and meet the standard currently set by the admins, this is about the other factions.

I'm not intent on pulling anyone down, I just believe that each and every faction should be held to the same standard. One that is already in place.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.