Considering the low numbers of active players, a consideration for remaining official could be to determine what kind of RP presence they have on the forums. Particularly, RP interaction with other factions, official or otherwise.
Low numbers of players make in game interactions scarce, lowering the desire for logging in game. By allowing an RP presence on the forums to qualify an official faction to remain official, it may increase desire for that faction to continue as well as generate RP opportunities between factions. This, hopefully, would bleed into RP encounters in game. A nice circular pattern.
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