OF Perks/Requirements

[Lord Caedus]

Every single OF perk affecting matters like ID/ZOI/Techcells can be Player Requested for the Indie ID already, as basically no perk that wouldn't make it for the Indie ID gets approved for the OF ID anyway. Officialdom benefit basically boils down to owning a Core 5. That's it. Everything else, everyone else can do. Even law updates were already done via PR (although with the relevant OFs consent).

This is by far the largest issue with the OF system as a whole, that being that anyone else can get the exact same thing with a minimum amount of RP. OFs to function as a concept that draws players to them need to have an advantage over the Indie ID. This does not always need to be a pronounced advantage, but there needs to be one that exists. A prime example of this would be for the IMG| OF. They should reasonably have and/or be able to RP out them getting access to 5k transports. This would give them an obvious advantage, but outside of organized mining with a marginal bonus and potential RP, there is no reason to actually join an OF like IMG|.

Yes, having advantages like this would cause a disparity between the OF and the Indie ID, but that is the entire point. Commiting to joining an OF, and an OF commiting to upholding the standards required of them, should come with tangible perks. The current trend of people going and just making a throwaway character to fly an Indie for PvP or an event is a testament to how undervalued OFs are in the current game state.

If the leader of the official faction doesn't like a suggested lore/story change, system change etc etc which effects their faction- It doesn't happen. Instead, the faction leaders have full control over which direction the faction goes- within reason.

I have to say, I do agree with the concept of an OF being able to veto a story beat happening to them, to an extent. Obviously they shouldn't be able to do these things unilaterally and turn the NPC faction into something its not, but having a marginal amount of control like this would be a nice thing to see. I will say that when Barrier was doing events, he would check in with relevant OFs to see if they had input, but it was an informal system, and with a new Event dev coming in to replace him, now would be an ideal time to formalize this practice.

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