Admin Notice: Faction Activity and Creation changes

[DiscoveryGC Admins]

After listening to the community and with a lot of deliberation the Admin Team has finally finished the revised faction activity and creation systems. We have also been at work on a revision of official faction rules and rights, which will be published at a later date.

What has changed:
- The required amount of active, unique members has been reduced from 5 to 3. A member is considered active from the moment they have accumulated more than one hour of activity per month. Minimum global ingame activity required for the entire faction remains at 24 hours.
- The Hardship Program has been removed. Warnings are active for three months, 2 active warnings and official status is lost, pending discussion http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=138802.
- Groups wanting to become an Official Faction may now be considered for official status after 2 months, down from 3 months http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1746.

In addition we are introducing the Faction Status Report system into the requirements.
More paperwork you say. Well yes, but for a good reason.

Activity checks have always been a one-sided process. We are looking to change that with this system by allowing factions to show us and the community they are well alive and contributing to the game. This system also introduces your roleplay efforts in the activity equation and not just raw activity anymore. We hope this will shed some light on slightly more niche factions more active on the forums than ingame.

All in all, this will allow everyone a better chance to understand your faction. This form should not take more than 10 mins to fill and can be posted by either the faction leader or his/her second in command. Do not go overboard with it, keep it simple.

In order to keep things clean with this new system, all Faction Activity related posts will now be in a dedicated subforum you can find here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=282

We need some help!
A little bonus we have been working on. Some factions out there are in need of new blood but making it known to the community tends to become a difficult process in our gargantuan forum. In order to make this process easy, the faction activity summary page has been updated to receive this little icon the administration team can place on any official faction:


Warned factions will automatically receive this icon.
That's all folks!