How to make official factions better?

[Thurgret]

I'm all for official factions being permitted to restrict/provide permission for capital ships. That said, it hardly applies to any of the factions I'm in. Don't forget that there are NPC factions out there which don't even have capital ships.

'Locking' bases sounds like a good plan. Setting people to hostile to one's NPC faction might be good. Perhaps each faction leader could be provided with some sort of special, mountable object on request which s/he can then distribute as is felt necessary, and which enables that 'repninjaing'.

The ability to change the affiliation of bases (following well-documented RP) if that's possible with FLHook, rather than everything just remaining static.

Access to a small number of 'super-super-transports' for factions with reason to get them. Ones with a cargo hold larger than the current maximum 5,000 units. They'd not need to make a SRP request for that, just have an admin beam them to Bastille to pick it up, then leave again.

A handful of new CODE weapons, made available for sale in Bastille, unlootable, which only official factions can get. Or alternatively one new 'normal' weapon of each type - tachyon, laser, photon, neutron, plasma etc. - which are only for sale in the Bastille, and are set to be marginally better than the 'best' one of that given type currently available. Factions may request guns of the same type that they usually use e.g. IMG| may request the special tachyon one, or the Liberty ones may request the laser/plasma 'special' ones. To save on time, I guess faction armouries could stock up on these all in one go.

Might think of some other bits too.