Admin Feedback Thread (Archived)

[Lythrilux]

@aerelm
Whilst there's definitely the possibility Protégé was exaggerating about how taking away that line took away reasons for his faction to log, I do have to point out that we've had niche factions reach officialdom before.

For example JM got official focusing on it's piracy line. That was the part of Junker roleplay we focused on. But we didn't just so that, we did smuggling as well as handle supply contracts.

Same with Wisp. The part of RP they focused on was anti-cardamine. They hunted Outcasts and their allies. But I think you are very misinformed to say they don't roleplay other qualities of a Cryer faction. They've set up medical clinics, they've made a POB, they even asked Core for research materials. All it takes is a glance at the roleplay they've done to see they do defiantly roleplay the qualities of a Cryer faction.

And well, like I said in the moment it's entirely plausible Protégé was exaggerating. If at the time of it's officialdom request the Admins removed the Junker piracy lines, I definitely would have been inclined to say JM lost it's reasons to log.

Whilst it's fair to argue that Wisp may have started out as a revenge faction, over time it clearly stepped away from that and became something worthy of officialdom. The OC and Co hunting line they had was hardly abusive, but at the least I would have nerfed it to just being able to hunt OC Sirius wide. After talking to the leaders of some of the factions Wisp shot, I do think some of the fault lies in their enemies just being a bit upset at being unable to kill their opponents and not doing anything about it, and just taking their upset to the admin team instead.

I think it's highly unfair for Wisp to get shelved when they are officialdom requests of much lower quality that have had so much more leeway and have even been approved (including the approval of requests built on a generic ID). Even some of the factions Wisp interacted with bullied Wisp and continues to bully factions that try to give them raid activity into not logging, yet I don't see their names coming onto the admins desks.

I've always been informed that officialdom is about how much of a positive impact and contribution a faction can make both forum and in game wise. I don't see how Wisp don't satisfy that requirement.

But then again, I'm not sure if it's fair to say Protege put up a good defense for himself or not.

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