Story Railroading.

[Miaou]

Why allow player governments to exist, or official factions to exist, if not to allow for player agency?

Reminder that "player house governments" don't actually hold any power and only really came from official factions banding together and using their combined faction rights to help dictate and regulate more standardized things like pobs and updating house laws.

At no point we're they supposed to play the government as a whole, just the smaller bureaucratic departments. Players just assume and the staff didn't correct. Bit of a whoopsies on all sides.


As for official factions, you exist to showcase what the faction is about and help guide players to act in line with the faction, such is why some faction rights exist to assist in keeping indies in line so we don't have KNF ships making friends with blood dragons and skipping down the lanes.

You don't control your npc faction. You can suggest direction for it like anyone else and perhaps staff should consider the 1ic's suggestions a bit more. However they don't have to accept your suggestions and I don't blame any staff from ignoring often times bad player suggestions.

Imagine being wrong. Imagine dragons. Imagine radioactive.

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