(07-24-2025, 09:56 PM)The_Godslayer Wrote: Neato! Another reason to never aim for OF! We were just running short on those lol
Yeah, what a quizzical change. OFs can barely affect story (if at all) and now they get less of a mining bonus. What's the reason to go OF, again? Hmm
Why do you need to be materially compensated for playing cooperatively with other players?
Whats the point of doing something if there's no point in doing it? Joining an OF, currently, is just being an indie with limitations. You have to have realistic RP, you can't just shitpost. You have to wear a tag that gets you targeted, you can't just be a Firstname.Lastname with no visible faction identification. You may even have to follow a uniform and not just fly whatever ship you want.
That's it? All you get from being an OF is limitations? I could try to join Aegis or ARM, but then everyone instantly knows I'm a bunter coming to bounty hunt, and I have to be serious about my roleplay. OFs would have to contend with a feedback thread and metagaming punishment threats from staff if I just detagged and name changed to catch someone who's been avoiding me. As an indie I can just rename whenever I want and catch that person without a care in the world.
Everything I can do on {DHC} I can do on an indie six times easier because there isn't a flag next to my name saying "Red Hessians come 5v1 me am a DHC".
Now, if your argument is just "delete official factions", ok, cool, great, you've really added to the conversation. We are about 2 changes off from OF being nothing but a limitation with no reason to do it, so you're getting what you want in the end. Congrats or sorry or something.
I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.
"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"
