Quote:Your right, factions do disrespect indies, and they seem to resent indies, perhaps because indies don't join them?
The server shouldn't be a place designed just for factions to have fun, and guess what, it isn't!
The extent at which you will go to skew my words in order to prove your point is disgusting.
I will requote what I wrote, including the parts you conveniently left out.
Quote:Factions disrespect indies that march around and try to act like faction leaders. Factions disrespect indies that are indies for the sole reason of getting a capship and skipping the whole rank-advancement process. Factions disrespect indies that have no idea of what ZoI is, and create massive amounts of trouble and discord in their ZoI.
You might be confused as to why this is the case. Allow me clarify what you can't seem to understand.
PBF, or Player Based Factions, especially those that are modeled after pre-existing, ingame factions, are composed of players who want to RP in the command structure of a faction. There are leaders and followers of different ranks. Part of their RP is taking orders and enforcing what they perceive to be their faction's policies.
Independent players can walk about, but the thing is, if they choose to RP as a member of a faction where there is a player based faction for, they really ought to have a better reason than the fact that they want a capship. Why? Because capships are usually restricted, as an enticement, for advancement in PBFs. If an indie joined a PBF with hopes of a cruiser, his/her dreams would be shattered, due to the fact that it would take (OH NO!) time to receive that battleship. Thus, the indie goes off, gets a capship, and RPs as the big admiral that he was too lazy to become through the faction process.
Then, when he orders faction members around, how can you not expect them to be pissed off?
The guy is pretty much sh**ting all over their RP. How is this respectful?
I agree with you, blanket policies are utter crap. But they are the best we have.
Finally, regarding your ranting about how most of the people on the server have no problems with indie capships. Allow me to enlighten you.
If you're not registered to vote, you can still have an opinion. But do your opinions get to affect the actual decisions? No.
These people that you talk about...The unregistered. They choose NOT to participate in our community via the forums. They choose to not care about the events that go on day to day, the very decisions that will affect them. They aren't on the forums, they don't participate, and frankly, when it comes to making decisions, they don't COUNT.
Trust me, we value them as players in the game, and they aren't treated any differently when it comes to the rules. The reason why they don't get counted in votes, tallys, debates, and discussions is all due to themselves. They refuse to participate on the forums, they pay for it. People have been asking them to get on the forums for ages. They aren't budging. Not our fault.
Thus, Akumb, you are wrong. The MAJORITY, the voting majority, disagrees with you.
