How to make official factions better?

[Caelum]

No, they don't.
They have more than enough power. Plus a cap 8 armour upgrade if they have been around 3 months!
And about the making them faction only, or allowing them to give permission for caps - even worse. I can see this power being abused because of personal opinions already.

Yes, true, it might be abused. But everything, literally, can be abused, doesn't make it bad necessarily.
It could also be more than just the faction leader, eg a sort of committee/council of members from a faction, but yeah.

Just an idea after all.

EDIT: And to clarify, I'm saying this as someone who's not in a single faction at this moment and has has several indies.

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