How to make official factions better?

[Colonel.Tigh]

Why does most post here read like : "How to FORCE people into official factions?" ??

Thats moronic people, if the official faction cant attract members, maybe they dont deserve them!
Saying, you cant play on this server properly, if you do not join one of the factions is the wrong way. factions should better think about their attitude and rules for new recruits, then crying, Admins, please force people to join us, or give us better things so we wtf pawn all the indies.

Official factions have the advantage to participate in the further development of the disco story line, do diplomacy with other factions, that should be enough.

Most of the time, i get better RP experience from indie players than from official faction players.
If a faction says, new recruits have to fly a mk 1 light fighter, i wont join, as simple as that, i want to play the game, not suck up to the ego of some faction leader.