The Newsroom

[Arioch]

I'm a fan of these.

I do though have one piece of feedback, and more to open up the discussion:

... As I've clarified in an earlier post, these articles are based upon the NPC factions that make up Discovery's (theorically) rich tapestry. This is done for a number of reasons but the chief among them is simply so it doesn't intrude on player factions.

For example: In the Mackinac article I made no mention of Gallia despite OSC's faction page clearly stating it as being a stepping stone into the Kingdom. That's because from a developer point of view OSC and Orbital Spa & Cruise are two separate things. This allows player factions to take their own direction whilst leaving the template (NPC faction) unchanged, the same logic applies here.

I get that when you have a Player Faction be a subset of the NPC faction. But in cases like [LN], or Order|, where they are the primary faction of the NPC ID and have been for many years, should they not thus in essence be the deciding factor of the direction the aforementioned faction goes? Especially with The Faction Right #2. If an official faction is able to direct the RP of both NPC and Player factions, then should not the Player Factions be consulted/factored in on News? I feel like that is a perk of being an official faction, that you can advance the RP/lore of the NPC faction (an example is requests to change the Rep/lines in both Official and NPC ID's).

Just curious, because I could this looking like Player Factions no longer have any say/control over the direction of the NPC faction. Thoughts/concerns?

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