Official Faction Activity First Quarter 2022

[Garrett Jax]

What would be the different system though?
This is a game, it's meant to be played - if a faction isn't interested in playing the game for even 48 minutes a day on average what else would justify it being official?

What you say certainly has merit, and I don't think anyone would consider zero effort in-game to be acceptable. However, official faction activity checks were implemented during a different time in Disco. It was a time when there was much more activity. You might have an official faction with very low hours in-game and one or two unofficial factions clamoring for their official faction status. If the unofficial faction was too similar to the official faction, it may be held up from becoming official. It wasn't fair to the unofficial faction to have to step aside and wait to become official when the official faction was putting in little to no effort in-game.

Today, looking at the activity in Disco, there doesn't appear to be that same issue. Activity is much lower. Consider the case of Ageira. Do they meet the official faction activity checks? No. But, are there any unofficial Ageira groups reaching out for officialdom? I would bet not. Why remove their official status then?

It's like running a company. You might have an employee that isn't putting in the desired productivity you expect to maintain the job. You've worked and worked with that employee, but he continues to put in less than the required effort. The problem is, there is no one else willing to do that job. The little effort that person produces is all the effort you are going to get. If you fire him, now you have zero productivity. This makes it harder on the rest of the company to be productive, because you now lose an entire department and what little production they had. If this company problem occurs across multiple departments, then you have to sit back as an owner and reconsider different ways to adapt to the current situation.

Disco isn't as popular as it once was. When was the last time we reached even close to peak activity? Why not adapt to the current state we find ourselves in? My suggestion was to consider forum activity on the part of the official faction as a factor in remaining official. Particularly, RP activity on the forums that show there is an effort on the part of the official faction to generate in-game activity with other factions, official or otherwise. If there are sincere efforts being made by the official faction to generate in-game activity via forum RP, at least some in-game presence and no other unofficial faction clamoring for that official status, then my recommendation would be to let them remain official. At least there is some effort being made, whereas if you got rid of their official status, you might just kill any productivity altogether.

In the case of Ageira, it could be they are not producing any effort at all in regards to their faction. I don't know. Maybe they have given up. Maybe the current state of Disco makes it too hard to motivate themselves to log in to the game. Would their motivation change if the requirements to remain official changed? I don't know. But since there doesn't appear to be anyone else lining up to do the job, why not give it a shot? What do you have to lose? You could argue that if you 'lowered' the requirements to remain official, everyone would just do the minimum. That is a valid point. But, I would argue that the quality of hours being played would improve, if not the quantity. Factions would log in-game because they want to, not because they have to. RP presence on the forums would hopefully lead to quality RP in-game and benefit Disco as a whole.

That would be the new system I would implement. A system that reflects the current reality of Disco.

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