Official Faction Spring Cleaning

[Reverend Del]

You need to be careful you are not trying to make factions the way you thing they should be because theres something about that that just doesn't feel right.

Tree has some very valid points .. To me it seems like a few people don't like the way a few factions are run and want a chance to give there views on it .. Fair enough but I don't see why this needs to be in a public domain where all manor of flames will happen .. If your not happy with something to do with factions PM Hoodlum or the faction leader and try and deal with these problems privately.

The idea is a good one in essence but I have a feeling this will just give a place for the whiners and flamers to vent there anger at what they "think" a faction should be run which in turn will leave allot of hard feeling and the community really doesn't need such a think.

Forcing everyone to comply because you have a problem with a couple is wrong in my opinion.

And im not just saying this because I don't want the factions im in to be re-evaluated because I would put The Brotherhood up in a heart beat and I don't believe RM would have many problems.

But there is allot of hard feelings towards some factions and how they are run, there back story's, the not FL enough and I think this would just get very messy very quick.

And lets remember that everyone has there own opinion on how something should be done, on how a faction on Discovery should be run but yours is not always the right one.

Hope that makes sense.

The RoS put up their faction status yesterday for critiquing and feedback and I must say it went very well indeed. some points were clarfied and the thread was well intentioned, in the main, yes it nearly got messy but it was reined in quite quickly.

Now the RoS is one of the factions whose back story is not entirely Freelancer, and yet they were able to avoid turning that sticking point into a flame war and take into consideration a number of points raised.

In my opinion these factions are old enough not to worry about back story so long as they have persued attempts to make themselves gel with the rest of discovery, after all that's what it's about, a cohesive server adding different politics to the whole of Discovery. We are not a bunch of Clans interacting with each other only when the firefights break out.

If more factions do this voluntarily including the ones that need it, then I would simply suggest a feedback forum to keep it all in one place. I am not intending someone to follow how I think a faction should be run. I would just like to see all faction status containing the same information that any new faction proposal must contain. At the present moment in time a large quantity of them do not.

Again I must thank the RoS and the QCRF for showing that this can be done without it breaking out into a flame war.

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