Consultation: Revised system for official factions

[Lord Caedus]

I'm going to be asking questions within the quote in this color for convenience of formatting

4 - OFFICIAL FACTION MEMBERS

4.1.b - “Ninjaing”, or flying ships belonging to an Official Faction without prior roleplayed character membership, is prohibited.

Clarification on how shared ships are going to work would be nice here, though the initial change itself does look good. Presumable shared ships would have to be registered in some format as being shared?

5 - OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

5.4 - Official Factions representing a given NPC faction may:[/pi]

5.4.a - Exercise a level of in-game and forum authority over players of the same IFF. They may enforce roleplay consequences on players of the same IFF, as long as the roleplay follows established canon.

This is a nice change from having to drag out your faction 1IC to have the option to "order" people to perform certain actions as an OF member, and is a good incentive for more people to join OFs.

5.4.c - Temporarily restrict the ability of individual player ships to dock on their NPC faction’s bases with the /nodock command. House Police factions may additionally prevent player ships from docking on any House Police, Military, Intelligence, or Corporate faction base.

Another good change, but as I believe has been asked previously, this would be available to all factions, not only lawfuls, right?

5.5 - All Official Factions may, at any time:

5.5.a - Create an Official Faction restart locked to members of the Official Faction, starting on a base of the faction’s choosing with a fully equipped fighter and the Player Faction ID.

Another good change, nice to see things like this no longer needing the use of "faction perks" and simply being a codified part of the normal rights of an OF.

5.5.b - Deploy a single Forward Deployment Ship (a Core 1 POB with two weapons platforms that may be deployed freely once every two weeks). While deployed, an FDS extends any ID with a matching IFF’s ZOI to the system it resides in. FDS deployment location must make in-roleplay sense given the Faction ZOI and ongoing RP. Staff reserves the right to refuse deployment if the desired location is found to be impossible to achieve inRP.

Aingar already went in and ninja'd an answer to my question on this, but the post might need to be updated to reflect that probably change coming in.

5.5.c - Equip “faction flair pieces including insignia, logos, color schemes, et cetera, pending their creation and approval by the Art Development Team.

Is this going to include OF specific color variations of existing ships, such as with the XA version of the Rebel, and if so how exactly will it be implemented, as I doubt Haste would want to add a ton of bloat to existing ship sell locations for new entires on an entire shipline for example

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