Consultation: Revised system for official factions

[Karst]

I generally agree that there should be a review process that somehow accounts for what a faction actually does beyond simply passing the activity requirement. That's a good approach.

There are two things I want to talk about here though.

One, this ruleset is extremely long and convoluted, which kinda goes against the spirit of the heavily condensed rules rewrite we did in February. Pretty sure it's significantly longer than the entire rest of the rules put together.
I'd like to think you can trim some redundancies out of it, like I'm pretty sure it goes into vague "standards being upheld" stuff more often than really necessary. Maybe try to cut some ultra specific rules out of there and treat them case-by-case.

And two, I'm perplexed by this extreme hostility towards shared ships, and ship sharing. 4.1 de facto blanket forbids shared ships.
The requirement to link ships with specific characters that must be catalogued is completely nonsensical to me. Most faction players will have one or a handful of specific, defined characters with personalities and backgrounds, but might also play random clerk/miner/escort pilot #14. Since even the smallest factions in lore have thousands of members, that makes far more sense to me than a faction in which the same 5 people happen to fly every single ship and perform every administrative role across Sirius.
And related to that, it is inexplicable to me why you would bar nonmembers from logging ships for smaller roles. Faction players that need a quick "can you log a miner/combat ship/hyperspace beacon real quick?" having to rely on actual members is completely unrealistic with the current player numbers, which in terms of ships on the server stood at 5 at the time I started writing this post. And to do such a minor task, anyone who is willing to help would have to make a public recruitment post, come up with a character for every single ship they ever intend to log, and have those characters be intrinsically linked to said ships? Complete idiocy, that one.

That bizarre, arbitrary restriction alone, that unofficials don't have, would categorically turn me away from ever applying for officialdom.

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