Have to have connections to get approved? I'd one hundred percent disagree with that notion, I don't know where people are getting the idea that the official factions are in some joint conspiracy with the admins to hunt down and exterminate all indys, I really don't.
Second point, some of the factions do represent the entirety of that faction.
Liberty Rogues we are the entirety of the Liberty Rogues and I would expect independent rogues to respect that, although we treat them according to thier ship class so a captain of a Destroyer only has to listen to the orders from the myself or my two seconds.
Rheinland military is the entirety of the Rheinland Military and acts accordingly
Kusari naval forces equally so.
Liberty security Force respects indy rights in the main as does the LPI.
Most of the player factions have no issue with indys, someone wants to fly around in a Rogue Gunboat pirating, I'm all for it. Let them have fun. Someone wnats to hang around New York in a Outcast Destroyer killing every fighter that steps into his path, so that I get a hundred PMs and Skype messages from peeved indys and faction members alike I ain't all for that. What people seem to be missing is that despite the fact we don't control you the factions still get flak for poorly RP'd independents, people telling us to reign them in. When we try to we get flak from the independents. A faction leader's life is one filled with endless complications and not a job for the faint hearted, ask any faction leader how much time he gets to play the game. I guarantee you it isn't as much as you think. It's no surprise that some of them lose patience when folks jump on them for even the slightest breach in demeanour. They, like you are only human.
Let's kill this debate between Indies and Factioned folks once and for all. The factions don't hate indies. The indies shouldn't hate factions. So long as everyone RP's or trys to then we should all just get along and enjoy what time we have to play.
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