' Wrote:A question. Would this co-operation have happened before all this debating on the forum?
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This is a difficult question to answer, n00bl3t. If you mean this thread, yes, this co-operation have happened before this thread. The independents vs. factions debate, though, has been happening on the forums ever since I've joined the server.
There has been a specific time, yes, when the RM have retracted a great deal in its stance of co-operation with independents. It's safe to say that this has happened during the last big "explosion" in the server population (more specifically when Microsoft's global server died) and when Disco slots were increased. There has been a big influx in the server population and this was a time when we had some big problems regarding, not independents, but more specifically rogues.
It's safe to say that wave has somewhat passed and that's why the RM specifically (I can't talk about other factions) has been less resistant to independents over the past few months. This is something that has been happening gradually. What I can tell you is that we are working to be even less restrictive in the near future.