The Pros and Cons of Official Factions

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When Foxglove and I founded and made the Vagrants official, we took it more as a challenge than an attempt to become official for the sake of officialdom perks. Back then, the Vagrants were different from what they are now, mind you. We simply wanted to have an alternative to K'Hara with our own little bit of lore, an evolution system, missions and achievements (trials) and generally wanted to provide a less shooty-shooty and more strategic approach on nomads. Eventually it lead to the Vagrants becoming an NPC faction, which I myself did not really want but Foxglove enjoyed that thought so he went through with it.

Another advantage of being official is that people are more likely to contact you as established and approved faction than a faction that was conjured into existence within a month or two and pretends to have a say over anything while not having accomplished anything yet. Without official factions, that is something anyone could do. Just spawn a faction and respond to comms any way they like.

It is mostly a passive boon of official factions, but to people like me, they have worked hard to have a better roleplay foundation than unofficial factions. That being said, there are obviously a few unofficial factions that either used to be official (like [LN]) and some unofficial factions that never were official but managed to become seen as an established group to contact for serious and valuable roleplay. So even that is not a firm thing.

If you want my honest opinion, there is no negative thing from trying to become official, but I would also avoid stressing out over the process. All in all, it is just a nice achievement with a bunch of perks, but what should always be the primary goal for any player is to enjoy the game and never turn it into a job.

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