(07-25-2025, 08:53 PM)The_Godslayer Wrote: 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.
Honestly many valid points here. What's the point of official factions if multiple privileges that were reserved back then are now granted to indies anyway? One of the big things was blanket bounties which Indies can do now. Officials right now only have access to Core 5s which is an extremely niche feature only meaningful to corporate/miner factions, factions like Xenos or Gaians will in most scenarios not benefit enough from that to justify doing it. OFs can still get some players or factions barred off solars under their IFF, but I don't see any reason why that should be something exclusive to officials too if some indie also does (good) RP about it and then files a player request.
