(06-02-2022, 05:22 AM)Relation-Ship Wrote: think of creative ways to make OF status actually matter in the first place.
This right here is paramount. I know it's not the subject of this post, but the OF system needs a serious overhaul. I mentioned once to someone that on Asgard (an old Freelancer server that some people might remember) we had custom ships made for each official faction. With PoB's being able to make equipment with commodities, maybe it's possible to even build these ships in the OF's PoB utilizing certain materials. That's just one example of what we could do for OF's to make them actually worthwhile to get.
As it stands, the only real benefits (that I can see) is you get a custom place on the forum to post your documents, message dumps, RP, intel, etc. You get a custom ID for your faction in game. You can get an opportunity to upgrade Core 4 bases to Core 5. Lastly, you might get the opportunity to be apart of Discovery history in different patches. That's it really. There are no other benefits. I mean, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here but from everything I've seen that's it. Kinda makes getting OF pointless for certain people.
Example: If we use ZDF (the Zoner faction I started recently) you can see where this is a problem:
ZDF doesn't need a custom place for documents. We have Discord and the Unofficial forum to post in.
We don't need a custom ID for the faction. It would be nice, but it's really not even necessary.
We don't have any bases and probably won't either since we have plenty of Zoner bases to patrol already.
Making history is all well and good, but I would rather write my own stories for the faction I help to run rather than have it plugged into an ongoing story that someone else has been writing (no offense Story Devs, I'm a control freak)
So it doesn't really make sense for a lot of people to even be official in the first place. This is just from my personal point of view though, others may have a different viewpoint. If you wanted to comment on something I wrote here, please feel free or correct me if I'm totally wrong.
