What would attract you to a corporate faction?

[Benjamin]

yeah the zoners/smugglers in this thread have identified the fact that jumphole trading makes way more money, is much safer, and requires less effort (both mental/roleplay and physical clicking/checking/running from pirates). While that continues to be the case, corps will continue to be a niche thing.

But I don't know, maybe it's because I only recently became a corp faction leader so I just wasn't aware of how it was before, but now at least, it seems like people are making noises about it. Like Eyvind said, we're banding together in our secret skype halls and such and looking for ways to increase our power/activity/fun/money/all that.

As for whoever said corps don't run houses, I guess you're basing this off a handful of Disco changes, rather than the whole vanilla history, which is very much driven by corporations. It was either Daumann or Republican (can't remember) which started the whole Nomad war, even. The entirety of Leeds system was handed over to corporations to run as they saw fit, and that's basically how it's stayed. Obviously the current war changes that, and Bretonia's government was starting to impose health and safety laws and such in the recent past, but it was basically a big corporate playground. Doesn't even have any pirate bases, for example. And there's however many more arguments. Vanilla has what, 24 planets? With like, 9 entirely under the control of corporations, 3 being weirdo planets in corporation-less space (toledo malta and crete) and a bunch of the other police-tagged planets being massively under the control of corporations, like Leeds, Honshu, Stuttgart. Blah blah. Made this argument a million times.

OPG Ivan, for a fruity dude, has some good ideas here, at least in my book. I just don't know how implementable it all is. The hamstrung IDs shut us out from a lot of in-game play, and the current attitude towards governments (i.e. king of army = king of house or close enough) shuts us out of a lot of forum play.
But this is the sort of situation I'd like to see. House governments acting like they need corporations and trade. Which, you know, obviously, they do. Like someone said, Rheinland isn't living off Liberty Navy money, it's living off Liberty corporation money. And why is it in that situation? It was forced in to a war by one of its own powerful corporations.

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