Why join factions?

[sindroms]

From experience, the best factions I have been a part of were the ones that ticked off two very separate boxes. It is either completely mindless fun with friends, usually involving very... minimal roleplay and just an in-chat or in-voicechat ''vibe'' - see LSF/DSE/BHG/JM teamspeak squad in the 2015s, or a faction where I was allowed and encouraged to peruse my own RP and character-based diplomacy without having a leash on my throat - LH, LPI, LSF, 101st, Keepers.
I am not exactly saying that they are mutually exlusive, but from experience I have noticed that they tend to work best when they provide a focus on either of those things.
But the fact of the matter is that apart from very specific toys - such as nodock for LPI IDs and the extreme amount of internal gameplay mechanics of the LH, all of these could have been done without the official tag and ID.
At the end of the day, it was the players involved that kept me logging those characters. Be they the ones in my faction, or those I interacted with.


EDIT: Actually, climbing ranks. I really enjoyed doing that in the factions where I participated. LR, RM, LPI especially sticks to mind. Sadly, there is a bit of a lurch when you hit the ceiling and it is sometimes easier to scrap the character and try again.

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