Should factions receive money from the admins?

[eyvind]

Free money, money for nothing, that's not what this is about. Those of you who keep saying that should look and think over the idea once or twice more.

It's also not about devoting time to a faction, either. As a faction leader, there is a plethora of things to spend time on in the faction. There is in-game role-play, diplomatic and other forum role-play, event organization, recruitment, teaching and training, discussions with admins and the development team, so on, and so forth. If a faction leader is spending more time trying to get credits than doing these things, he's either doing something wrong or the system just isn't right.

What I mean to say is that the act of devoting time is irrelevant and needless in itself. The saying "work smart, not hard" might be fitting. A faction would very likely be far more successful if its leaders spent their time on leading the faction than if they spent their time funding the faction.

Perhaps it's this kind of wording that leads some of you to conclude that this, in fact, is about free money for nothing. But even though spending inordinate amounts of time funding the faction is unhealthy, funding the faction is an important part of faction leadership. Some leaders decide to do it themselves, others ask for donations, others organize fundraisers. It does not make sense to completely eliminate it from the equation entirely.

Some people here at DiscoveryGC love using the supreme and ultimately versatile non-argument: "It's a game." I don't -- and I'm not -- as a matter of principle, but it might make some sense here. Spending too much time trading -- whether it's the faction leader or faction members doing it -- isn't synonymous with having too much fun.

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