Should factions receive money from the admins?

[Quorg]

Please note that this is coming from someone who is a faction leader.

1) Regarding an earlier post, official factions already do receive their 500 million deposit back upon receiving official status.

2) Good faction RP for new factions is already incentivized with the CAP VIII armor program.

3) Determining what a reasonable amount is will be tricky and result in much whining.

4) Determining which factions will and which factions will not deserve subsidies will be tricky and result in much whining.

5) Handing out subsidies to factions based on nebulous factors such as "good RP" or "well-RP'd events" will be tricky and result in much whining, not to mention the fact that it will grant some factions financial benefits over others that are OORP- giving more to the Xenos than Interspace Commerce, for example.

All in all, this program would be hard to implement fairly and almost certainly result in conflicts of interest, whether they be real or imaginary.

However, if you want to do it in a way to maximize the fairness and avoid as much whining as possible, simply grant each active official faction the same amount at the same intervals. That way you can make it easier for factions to stay afloat financially without splitting up costs in a way that could be perceived as unfair.

As for the idea that some factions would just sit on their hands- we have a system for that. It's called abolishing inactive factions.

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...mongs like Quorg being like a malignant little cancer...

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