Alright, so, now that I am actually more or less awake, let me try and explain the actual reason I posted this thread.
For those of you keeping an eye on things might have noticed that ever since I took over the LR, I revamped the ranking system 3 times. This was due to a number of reasons and right now it seems that I might implement changes for the 4th time. First it started off by doing away with the ranks altogether. My reasoning for it was that ranks were, for all intents and purposes for the sake of the players- useless. They were free to fly the ships they were comfortable in, use equipment they were proficient with (As long as they themselves dealt with RP repercussions regarding stolen tech and whatever) and do their own thing.
This did not last long, because it mostly felt like yet another "Spazzy Group" so to speak. While it was geared to be player-friendly with "Less of the unneeded bull between you and fun", it seemed a little bit bare boned, if that makes sense. Especially when it resulted with many older members surprised that their titles were nuked.
With that in mind, I revised the ranking system the second time, this time implementing the Five Rogues system, which would basically leave me as the faction leader oorp and the ingame events would be lead and coordinated by five of the more active and enthusiastic members with other members choosing which project they wanted to follow. Needless to say this system was a little bit too complicated and we only had 2 people sign up as the top rogues after a month of waiting.
So as the third and final attempt I said ''screw it'' and once more did away with the ingame ranks by replacing them with an oorpy hierarchy. Depending on the amount of RP contribution the player had in the Rogues, they would be rewarded accordingly. I specifically made it so that any individual RP on their part would have great impact on how the faction progressed and would reward the faction members to have a sizable control on how the faction did even though they were not in the "HC" so to speak. This was only complimented by the Titles system, which allowed members to earn titles for themselves based on ingame accomplishments.
So why this thread? Well, it is still not working out as I want it to. There is not enough drive within the members to actually do any sort of RP for their characters. They are content enough to log their ships when something is going on, the log off once it is done. Which is not bad in any way, but it is not the kind of stuff I saw back in the 2010s.
So the purpose of this thread is to gauge the interest of faction players and the experience of faction leaders of how they are handling this situation. I can note only a few factions I personally know are doing well with ranks and that was the RM and are the LH. Ah well. What do you guys think?
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