Faction Officialdom

[Typrop]

I sometimes had a question about how fractions, being no one and not showing themselves in the game, have the right to try to become official almost immediately after their creation.

Seriously, one gets the impression that the fractions have become bargaining chips. 500 million is not such a huge amount, so everyone who is ready to trade 2 days at a maximum already has this money (namely, for this period it is easy to collect this amount). And when GMs do not affect the economy, but update the rules, the creators of the official factions are outraged about how everything is unfair and wrong.

That is, you refuse to make sure for 6 months that someone really needs your fraction, that it makes sense, that it is interesting to people. You are ready send to hell any preparation and any work on errors in exchange for applying for official status in the very first days without making sure that you have any sense. At the same time, you have neither the composition, nor the backbone that you could create online in the long run, nor just the final RP concept of your fraction. You are ready to give up self-development in exchange for the fact that you have 500 million.

I think that this change of rules can correct this situation by equating the official status as something to which we should strive, and not what we can buy.

In short, being someone that doesn't lead official factions, I simply see this as an artificial time barrier in a game where certain groups simply don't have factions, (Cryer, Union Corse), and existing official factions are essentially activity farms. Consider this akin to heightened, almost arbitrary FDA standards. Lots of small restaurants come up, and they both have to compete with existing chains, coupled with strict regulations that can impose pretty heft monetary concerns on said restaurants. Things like ensuring that shelves are at least six inches above-ground, etc.

Eventually, they go out of business in the next two years, while the larger chains seem to do almost nothing. Sure, the quality of the larger chains' food has gone down, but it doesn't matter, because they're the only people you can really buy from anymore. Just like how certain official factions are those chains, and how this is comparable to increased regulations. It's more arbitrary than anything in an environment that needs either a good change-out of existing factions, or new ones to be cropping up. Definitely, I can understand the intent behind officialdom being something to strive for, but at the same time, you don't make something strive-worthy by appending a mostly pointless time gap.

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