PFI| - Planetform's future

[Enko]

Planetform.

What is the future? That is those of PFI|. As since, well ever since the hype of the new faction wore off and the picture sank in that the trade routes were crap, not much interaction between other factions and the most fun to be had really was the administration areas of the faction, activity has been a major issue. But what happens now?

The faction is, in all terms, dead in game. Dedicated members such as Ogris and Gloucester have soldiered on with the trade part despite all its downfalls, however other than that the term comes on as to why bother? Why bother going for a faction that has hardly any trade routes that come close to todays power trading requirements to have something useful come out of your trader. I dont know really, we had a scientific division going, with a few spatial explorers we bought of IMG|, then did some surveys of possible planets. We can go into more detail with this, however this will be another part to work on.
There are three outcomes of this, possibly four depending how you see it.

1. We carry on how we are, try to make the best of the faction how it is, possibly remake the entire faction again and start from scratch in terms of members and internal policies.
2. We turn into a RP body, where we get enough people with good Role play to progress with the faction on a pure RP standard, that is developing reports of terraforming, doing interaction with others and if/when we go for official, act on behalf on the NPC faction due to the lack of indies and other factions (Though I have seen like one person in another made up faction based on Planetform NPC).
3. Give up. However much I do not want this to occur, there comes to a point where a faction just isnt a faction anymore.

Im particularly interested in current members of any Planetform faction, be that ours here or anyone else, including independents opinions of how to proceed with this endeavour to get one of the backseat factions upfront into the game. However, all participation in this thread is encouraged.

Im interested to see what the community thinks of all this, we do currently have factions that are unused in essence because they have been brushed aside in development in a way. Its hard to manage a faction such as this. Various things have been tried to boost activity, including over generosity on my part, which from other experienced trade faction leaders have told me is too much and I shouldnt really be doing it such as buying a fully kitted out Transport to anyone who joins and other things like that.

Basically what Im looking for here is a small discussion about this before I proceed in whichever way we go along with just general discussion about our faction and the NPC faction as a whole.

Cheers

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