How to make official factions better?

[barrenwzste]

First, a point. No matter what is decided on this matter, once a decision is renedered, a good amount of people are going to be po'd. The question becomes, is it important enough to the developers and the majority of gamers that factions have more power/rights than indies that they are willing to po the indies? Personally, I think it is. You can't expect the factions to channel and induce roll play if they have no power or rights to do so. So, with this conclusion on my part, here are my thoughts as to how.

-Limit caps to only player faction tagged characters. To you indies out there, if you want to keep your Liberty Cruiser, join the Navy or the LSF. If you want to roll play that you are a police man, join the bleedin police.

-Give the trade bonuses Ivan spoke of to the factioned players. For example, scrap metal is going for 3k now at the right station. Drop that to 1.5 if the miner/trader isn't Junker/Hogosha. This will do things, help to boost faction recruitment, and/or, improve indie faction relations as the indies start making deals to sell the scrap for 2 so the faction traders don't have to mine it.

-Stop editing and changing the faction Id's so much. When you join a faction you expect to play the faction you joined, not have it changed into something different with every update. It's hard enough to keep up with all the factions when they are stable, but darn near impossible when they are always changing. After we settle this issue, lets focus on technical aspects for awhile, and give people time to adjust and grow into thier factions.

-Limit the number of factions more severely. I've been here a year now and I still don't know them all or thier roll as pertains to sierius. Yes, diversity is interesting and good, but to much just dilutes the dynamic between the factions.

Well, good or bad, these are my ideas on how to increase faction attendance. I'm out.

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