Faction Officialdom

[Monsieur Baguette]

Firstly, no one really needs any faction. To think like that, you're not completely understanding that this is a hobby and not a job.

How does this change all of the above? (x3)
I will explain what I mean: the creation and development of the faction must be approached seriously. Even if this is a hobby, then this hobby should be of high quality.

If this is a hobby, it by definition is not supposed to be of high quality. People playing here do not owe anything to anyone. The community too rigorous on "quality" factions is already infamous enough for discussing how "bad" new factions are solely because of their not advanced bbcode or anything else. Quite often such factions are made by newcomers which are immediately put off by such a harsh elitist treatment of the others. In addition, "quality" is a relative concept and what is a "no-go piece of garbage" for one person can be "neat doable simple concept" for the others.

Official status is a title, an achievement. This is, damn it, an occasion for all players to follow you and take an example from you. People, putting the tag of the official faction on their ship, shoult be proud of it.

As of now, the status of OF doesn't give any real benefits to be proud of. Unless you go for a specific RP that transcends the basic faction lore (like revolution faction, or completely new faction) - you don't really need OF to enjoy playing the game. Many vets here have said it before, and I agree with them - that staying unofficial is the way to go as it is burden- and drama-free play, where you can easily change the faction concept without any requests, you can RP whatever you want within the scope of the rules without caring about the backlash, etc. Look at GMS - they are constantly in top activity and they have never been official, nor even applied for OF. Ofc, they are traders and are supposed to have high activity - but their activity is even higher than of OF trading factions which just proves that perks of OF are not really beneficial. As for "pride" - I absolutely have no idea how being OF makes you proud, unless you belong to those elitist who consider unofficial factions "trash".