How to make official factions better?

[ryoken]

Just throwing an idea out there I've partially thieved from I-have-no-clue-who.

Changing cap licenses;
-To enter certain (rare) bases, you'll need to be friendly with the guard faction
-There is no way of becoming friendly with the guard faction aside from the faction's official faction approving it. Eg, like Nomads, Wilde, Phantoms, Administrators, etc, your rep to them doesn't change further to neutral in this case (should be possible right?)
-There's some thread stating who the indies are with permission to fly a capship
-Those player names are made friendly to the guard faction by the admins (once a day, once a week, whatever), at the official faction's sole digression
-Other players are only neutral to the guard faction (possible right?) and hence unable to purchase a cap ship (possible?) or a cap license (possible?)
It'd then be up to the official faction to post once a day/week/whatever who needs to get friendly with the guard faction (or lose their capship if neccesary)

That way, work for admins would be minimal, eg one admin checking the thread and doing the repping once a day/week/whatever, is all.

Basically official faction leadership deciding who gets to fly capships, possibly with some variable to turn it off server-side or something, for other servers.

In a nutshell, bye-bye to all lolcaps.

...Input?

EDIT: Note, indies would also be able to have caps, but ones approved by the official faction leadership with the sole requirement being able to RP well & having been around for more than a week.

I'll add a couple of the random ideas we've argued about over the last 12 months:
- restrict capship purchases to factions (enforced by admins in some manner)
- as above but only for the very biggest capships
- restrict access to bases (through some sort of flhook thing I guess), i.e. LPI locking down Manhattan.
- post in game news items
- allow factions to have one/some custom ships

That's all I can remember right now; I'll post others as I remember them

Many of these do have the problem in that they take something away from existing players. This isn't necessarily a bad thing in itself but it would hurt a number of players. We'd want to be very sure the advantages out weigh the disadvantages.

Agreed, no need to Force people into joining factions. That would simply destroy the game name would it now?

But for this to be a creative post:

The faction's main problem is capital ship control is it not? Make them special Rp only, I mean, if you have no time to write a short story up, the hell are you even here?

All these Idea's so far just benefit faction player's,and screw indies. I play both. I have been on server's who restrict people if they do not join a faction,and guess what? they are no longer around. Also you might as well change the name from discovery to "join us or we screw you" server.
If limits are placed on non faction/clan player's? all you will get is .....
1/ a huge burst in faction creation,and who is to say which faction gets what?(probly the vets will screw newer player's)

2/ a drastic drop in player count(I myself will be gone,and talked to many in skype that will also leave)

I think giving control of a guard system is enough for faction's, you limit other stuff to indies,and they will just stop playing,and all you got is "clan wars server" which was around,and sied after a few short month's.

My rant/2 cents worth.:angry::angry::angry:

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