IC/IND

[Durandal]

Didn't want to be bothered with this mess but it'd be irresponsible of me not to, given all the fighting my way to the top that anyone with a non vanilla faction from the days of yore had to.

Man pines for his old roleplay and his old tag and the old days and the old ways, and I'm not seeing a whole lot of anyone who was even around for that era, so that brings us to the inevitable; how's this gig different from the RoS?

The IND had a very rich, complex, aristocratic, and outright one percenter lore which led to the faction being extremely unique and providing a lot in a world full of run of the mill miners and socialist revolutionaries, navies and intelligence factions who could do a great deal more shady stuff but instead opt to be the good guys, unless you're Gallia because then you're told you can't.

If a thing's vanilla and dying, that make it inherently better than a living non vanilla faction? Has the disappearance of IND from the server resulted in folks flocking to ye olde vanilla IC or USI or Samura or Gateway? Not so far as I've seen.

If a thing works it works, and if someone cares to bring back a thing that did work and worked mighty well, the notion of stopping him seems like the kind of thing a sack of hammers would put forward.

Scratch the superiority complex you had when recruiting people, maybe self nerf a bit (the silent 5ker gig happened when you weren't around, granted, but it's a valid complaint), and the whole shindig is more or less good to go in modern day Disco. The lore holds up, and if people want to get it off the ground then who in the hell are you to stop 'em?

"Walk away from it and play a vanilla faction" is the clarion call of people who'd rather see the server pristine and dead than messy and active, and all the vanilla in the world's worth zilch if you can't fill it with people.