Official Faction Activity Fourth Quarter 2020

[SnakThree]

TBH, we need to rethink what we expect from OF's. Attaining officialdom in itself is a huge chore that few successfully accomplish - and for little or no tangible benefits unless they're trying to make a new kind of faction or canonize a new NPC faction.

The process of maintaining officialdom has little or nothing to do with contributing to the server in any real capacity - a lot of people either just log out of sheer obligation and do the bare minimum to keep the legacy of their hard work from dying, and it's not a good look.

On top of that, not all factions are equal in terms of offering gameplay aveneus. It's much harder to keep active as purely trading faction than it is to be active as mining+trading faction. Same with police and navy or intelligence comparison - you can see every house have rather stable active military faction, while there is only LPI (in most active house) as longterm official faction at this moment. At least police factions get the TLAGSNET and /nodock as their features, while trading factions have no edge over mining factions.

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