Unofficial factions in relation to official factions

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Suppose within a faction's structure Rank A has authority over Rank B. (Admiral > Commander, for instance.)

If an individual is doing a decent job of RPing a member of Rank A, well enough the people around him say "yeah, his rank is Rank A" rather than "oh that idiot", and there is another individual who is doing the same for Rank B. The Rank A individual gives an order to the Rank B individual, who has a few options:

1) Follow the order as befits the rank structure.
2) Ignore/defy the order. The Rank A individual can then reasonably order the Rank B individual to report to a base for court martial or whatever, and shoot them if they refuse.
3) Declare the order illegal (no ordering people to break server rules) and defy the order. At this point, the RP thing to do is have one or both parties (the Rank B player in particular) dock, exchange contact details for skype or the forums, and work it out.
4) Follow the order grudgingly, then go to the forums/skype to:
A) Figure out the proper thing for next time and/or talk to the other person about the issue.
B) Bitch about it, often utilizing the staple "faction oppression" or "idiot indies" argument patterns.

1 and 4A are best.

Note that this is completely irrelevant whether or not the individuals are in server factions, official or otherwise. I don't care. Members of official factions tend to have consistently solid roleplay enough to fulfill the preliminary qualification for this example, but not always, and plenty of indies do too. Not important. This is a generalized thing that doesn't change if one guy is tagged and one isn't, if they fulfill the qualifications above, in RP they have their ranks and should know where they fall.

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