Official Factions

[Xoria]

Because a large number of people (in fact, I'd say the majority. See siggie) disagree with the official ruling.

Did you ever bother to read the fourth post of the thread, in which the leader of the faction cited in the poll states that RM does not engage in the behavior that the poll assigns to them? Virus's post obliterates any meaning that poll might have to assist your position, because the policy of the RM that you seem to think that the poll is about does not even exist! I voted in favor of the recent Admin Notice, and I could just as easily vote Yes in that poll, because the actual RM policy is not contradicted by the Admin Notice.

The term "non-canon roleplay" is being bandied about quite too much as well. It is an entirely inaccurate and inappropriate term to use, and there is no server rule or Admin Notice which utilizes it.
The only term that might even come close in here : http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24488
might be "anti-canon roleplay", but not even that term is used. The ONLY prohibition is against forcing other players to follow roleplaying conventions that are CONTRARY to canon. That means opposite, opposed to, contradictory to, in opposition to.

Roleplay that is "other than canon" / "non-canon" is entirely permissible, and is in fact the subject of most of what goes on in people's stories. An example of "other than canon" / "non-canon" roleplay could be the Liberty / Rheinland embargo, which it is entirely permissible to enforce, and is only possible due to the existence of official player factions who create it.

But what I find most interesting is this : when player factions are prohibited from enforcing "anti-canon" roleplay on non-player faction characters, and when player factions are prohibited from preventing non-player faction members from setting up their ships as they desire to, suddenly some people claim that there is no reason for a faction to be official at all.

Is that what the great benefit of being an official player faction is : The ability to force everyone else to contradict the intended and established roleplay in the mod and prevent other characters of your own npc faction from pursuing their own storylines and ship choices? Must be, since that is all that is prohibited.
The necessary inference from this is that those are the two most important abilities that a player faction could have, because only the loss of something that is the centrally important role of a player faction could render officialdom meaningless.

I'm sure that must come as quite a shock to all of the official player factions who A) Do not own a system and/or may never own a system B) Have no desire to restrict other people's ship/equipment purchases.

I guess Fellow Hoodlum leads a merry pack of fools in IND, along with BMM, Gateway, IMG, NLH, OPG, BLS/SOB, and numerous others including, lets see, oh yes, The Lane Hackers. How stupid I have been this past year in missing out on all the restrictive fun I could have been imposing on all these non-player faction Lane Hackers. Maybe I'm alone in believing that its best to lead by the carrot of a good example than by the stick of "thus sayeth the system owning faction leader", which is both ultimately vain and an onerous distraction from, dare I say it, fun...which is what this is supposed to be all about.

Guard systems are a faction resource to every character which is affiliated with that npc faction, and it is nothing less than abusive oppression for the owner of the system to lock away its use from those characters. If you want one that only your player faction members can use, then buy one for which the restriction does not onerously and negatively impact every other member of the same npc faction.

Or are we to be told now that the only reason that any player faction has bought a system was so that they could prevent their own non-player faction npc faction affiliates from using it?

I don't know what else to conclude after that is what is prohibited and people demand to get that power back.

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