How to make official factions better?

[Evan_]

(..) role-players find role-playing to be it's own reward (...)

That partial sentence is so close to my hearth that I wanted to cut it out of its original sarcastic context and clean the dust from it. Have you ever thought about how being in an offical fraction affects your roleplaying possibilities? My humble opinion is that's a great deal to not be alone, and not becuse you can pirate in packs. Why? Because there are experienced players there, who are monitoring the events in Sirius probably for years. And their knowledge is what a rookie realy needs out there.

If you play a tabletop rpg and unsure of something - you ask the storyteller. But Sirius is so vast. And if you ask the wrong people you'll be misinformed. But how would you know who to ask here? I'd think someone who's been here long enough and having enough time to maintain a long-lasted fraction is your best bet.

Example. Do you know why corsairs and outcasts hates each other? Yeah, so do I. But I guess if we'd go to ask their offical fraction leaders about it we'd be ashamed how many details we didn't knew about. Of course I can make my own theory about that and roleplay acordingly. But when I (my char of course) says something as a member of an offical fraction, I feel myself backed up by players more competent than myself. Even if they never did anything for it other than not telling me that 'you are doing it wrong'.

I imagine some only need to be in a situation like this to feel 'lorded'. Call me cynic but no special gadget would overcome the feelings of those peolpe. It needs a realization. Others might be able to accept any restrictions just to be supervised.

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