Story Railroading.

[Groshyr]

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. But 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.

I'm sorry but I think you are partially wrong: perhaps it was so in the past, perhaps it is so in Liberty still, but as far as I know, Rheinland allowed all active local factions to be part of it (unless my information is outdated) and the Gallic Government has both official and unofficial factions, including qualsi-legal one. Yes, the goal is to combine effort to regulate region and in theory provide local player-driven story, however we all are busy people and can't put all our time for this game and community.

Official or unofficial, but yet player faction has to represent a branch of their official faction, not a whole NPC faction. You don't own it, you are still subordinary of story, but story has to listen and value your opinion, if you can deliver it as adequate adult person. If you are incapable to do it - then don't expect anyone listen to you. Moreover, as official faction your responsibility is to teach other who comes to play same NPC faction as you how to play this faction, not to wave your pixel dong, telling about how cool you are.