ID Restricted Ships?

[Jinx]

This is what you may call "a negative reason" to join a faction - something you might like to avoid. Factions should try to generate a postive reason to join them - richer roleplay, friendship, organization - a place with structure. Among the reasons to join an official faction - there should NOT be "so i can use [insert ship/equipment]" ... if you do that, you simply end up with people who really just join the faction to "get stuff" - and if you are really, really unlucky, - sooner than later, the majority of your faction is filled up with "those people" - who are not interested in what i listed before.

It is a way to actually kill off an official faction slowly.

Other than that - you also create an environment of "us and them" (something Disco actually suffers from, although some people do LIKE that state - an faction vs. indie attitude for example) - Once you start to generalize instead of looking at the individual skills and contributions - and just look at a tag ... you will start to dismiss people who are an enrichment to the community - while in the worst case - defending people who are toxic to it - all based on a tag.

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