Why join factions?

[Emperor Tekagi]

It's been many years since I joined my first OF.
In fact, my first true OF experience was an immediate takeover as 1ic.

Over the years, I led three factions in total and was in a sheer ridiculous amount of HCs. OFs, all of them, are shadows of their former selves. Joining an OF is a trinket, a goodie, an illusionary feeling of being meaningful. Especially lawfuls got screwed several times by artificial rules and restrictions, rendering their status entirely meaningless in reality.

The sole reason I stay and join other OFs are legacy reasons. Countless people built these factions and put many hours of effort, sweat and passion into them. OFs have a meaning only through their legacy, their real and fictional weight.

An OF rework granting these additional tools I've heard about should really help making OFs interesting beyond the small benefits of perks and "weight" to their legacy.

I'm also looking forward to the overhauled activity system, differencing time, effort and even the instance of forum work and reflecting these points in staff judgment for OF suitability.