Official Faction status and its obligations

[Enkidu]

As an OFL leader, I'll say this.

OFLs have a certain amount of responsibility to generate activity for their house, to press the concerns of indies in mod updates and changes, and to set the overall diplomacy, rep and style guide for Indies in order to stop RP from being completely incoherent, whilst still letting indies do what they like. OFLs have a greater ability to shape mod story, physical content, and set up events. They share responsibility with the devs for defining how each IFF can be played and roleplayed.


I tell all my members to treat indies with respect, however, two thirds of all the indies we run into use roleplay tokenistically - as a means to an end - be it an unspeaking Solaris carrier who can only type in the cyrillic alphabet or a trader who sends PM insults at us after he rejects a piracy demand. We're meant to help, not hinder, independent players, but there's a certain amount of give-and-take.