Official Faction Activity First Quarter 2019

[Lythrilux]

Too many systems aren't the issue. It's bad connections. Why on earth Omicron Tau hasn't been relegated to the other side of the map and the T-37-Alpha link hasn't been rebuilt is beyond me. People say "oh well we made the distance shorter" - it's still an inconvenience and nowhere near as good as the connection used to be.

In regards to faction redundancy... I'll say the following:

• Harmony has basically developed itself to overlapped HF - maybe even doing HF's role better.
  
• Hessians utterly dwarf Bundschuh and whilst Unioners have made a push to make themselves more distinct, arguably all other Rheinland unlawfuls still play second fiddle to Hessians.
  
• Mining bonuses being handed out like hotcakes to factions has undermined the speciality of vanilla/original mining factions and given them needless competition instead of keeping mining activity centralised.
  
• A lot of Corporate IDs desperately need a bonus or perk of some kind to make them worth playing. People have said for a long time that groups like OSC should get a bonus for delivering people commodities to places.
  

I think people are starting to get the idea that this isn't just an issue with a faction's leadership or the player faction itself. Lots of factions desperately need assistance from a development perspective to become attractive.

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