I want either less powergaming or a bigger chance to participate in it @Devteam

[Teerin]

One current goal of the planned update packages is to provide better base placement for every faction. This not only means giving factions with stations in only one system some external facilities, but also giving all Gallic groups outposts beyond that House, and lending a hand to factions with only a handful of bases and poor spread. No matter how many allies a faction has at the moment, limited base options have proven time and again to harm to faction activity and opportunities.

The HF Legion are by no means special. And yeah, as with every other faction leader, I do encounter some bias when discussing future progression for them with @Durandal. However, the other three story developers ( @jammi, @LunaticOnTheGrass, myself) keep things in check and from getting out of hand because we debate on the logistics of every change, even plenty of times to the disappointment of Justin's HF aspirations. Or Lunatic for Bundschuh, myself for Corse, and Jammi for Bretonia. We try to keep ourselves balanced.

Official player group roleplay is great, but doesn't always have to be done for new stations or if the NPC faction lore needs advancement. While official roleplay and NPC lore are interdependent, they are indeed different as well. I always encourage players and leaders to conduct roleplay for upcoming changes, but A) there's not always enough time, B) the station infocard usually contains sufficient lore about it, and C) sadly I have zero way to enforce the roleplay requirement without being totally awful to them.

I appreciate the feedback here. I think Justin covered the basics of what happened with the Hudson Crisis and the Judicator. Issues with the former case, where the storyline was not done under one roof, have since been corrected in the Dev Team so that a more continuous, cohesive story can exist.

As a bit of a correction to the Ageira post, @Durandal is only the acting systems department head, as such is needed, but it's temporary because he actually doesn't want the full position. And @Yber, he hasn't "taken over" either. Also sure, I'll freely admit that he could be more of a people person, but so could many people and we all have our flaws.