I guess you were misleaded by note in RHA´s FSR. However, it is actually not accurate.
(06-02-2016, 03:09 AM)Wesker Wrote: Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
This is all of what rheinland gave RHA in a month which is pretty sad. Pewpewing RM, oh wait there is no RM. Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with? Rheinland is dead, I need a big RM player base now to shoot. Seriously, I hate waiting in omega-5 for 80 centurions to show up and gank the 3 RHA online. RM is dead, RFP is barely alive, Rheinland needs to be like a good house. Is there anything you would like to add? Make Rheinland a good house again with players.
Faction / last month / last three months
[RM - Rheinland Military 3d, 10:25:27 / 11d, 03:40:47
BDM| - Büro Der Marineintelligenz 2d, 14:36:43 / 7d, 17:03:16
RFP| - Rheinland Federal Police 1d, 12:25:42 / 4d, 10:51:48
So, "dead RM" is actually most active faction recently and "barely alive" RFP has its best activity numbers in several months (sorry, we never generated huge amounts of logged time and also majority of our members are not clearly pvp oriented so they don´t log purely to shoot RHA when they see you online). Activity should not be judged by number of blues, you know...
Generally, while the activity could be of course better (but hey, all houses except Liberty can say that), there were time periods when it was way worse. Of course everyone welcome anything to support more activity in Rheinland, but running around and screaming "Rheinland is dead" is not appropriate description of current state and may actually discourage some players from playing in it and may be counterproductive.
Also, I´m not sure if there can be much better contraband route than political refugees, considering it goes all the way through four systems.