Nobody cares about the Kusari civil war. I know this because I was involved in it, and the devs didn't care about it either and they invented the blinkin' idea. We got the most tangential system of Nagano turned into Leeds lite, a lane broken (which just slows trader players and hurts pirates by removing the incentive to use the lanes) and some battleship movement. Kusari doesn't feel any different. There's no reason to use the planetary atmosphere because only BD have an incentive to be there. You have to be actively wanting to fight in the atmosphere for it's own sake to get people to fly down there.
Oh well, I got the Matsuda moved during my time as ~*~ 1ic and got them to official. There's that.
Both me and char left our respective faction 1ics for lots of different reasons. The primary ones was the devs not giving a damn.
KNF, start some roleplay, go to the Liberty Border, invent a territory dispute and make this happen yourselves. Devs can't stop you if you start shooting.
Now there's the Rheinland/Corsair thing which isn't going to work out because RM is inactive, Devs have an apathy for telling faction leaders anything (and have for years), Admins and Devs don't work together, and Official factions get cut out of the loop. People badmouth the admins but they take suggestions and act on them. Devs have a devving process and a bunch of insular committees more cryptic than the Nomad Lore was in 2013.
Stay in the rules and uphold them. Other than that? Don't let the staff control your RP. This is an RP server, not an ID-and-infocard-enactment server - do it yourself. Do whatever you want within the boundaries of the rules. Go out there, and have fun.
Probably the worst offense I've seen is Solar getting merged because HF needed to become two factions for the advancement of a faction RP. That was an asset in use. Solar was a fascinating faction which was a corporate rival of GMS, not a close friend. Repurposing an entire faction from the most unique house to give to the Hellfire legion for just one or two NPC bases? Why!? I'm seeing indies using the Solar restart and rocking up with a frikin' Commonwealth IFF.
Story devs should serve the factions not the factions serve the story devs. The story is a foundation, not a guideline. It certainly shouldn't direct where you choose to play. The players are not dolls in a dollhouse.
I'm extra-irritated because I was going to make a Solar faction before Durandal decided it shouldn't exist anymore because the Hellfire Legion's story development requires an entire new NPC group to represent the split between the civillian and military population. Grrr. I do like you, Justin, but wasn't there any other way of doing that which wasn't destructive to the potential of Gallia?
I could just /restart Solar and ignore the modification completely. Oooh, that could work.
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)
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