Well, even when I'd looooooove to get more power on my overpowered Chujo, and even when some of these ideas are great, the first post made by Cannon is losing its purpose a bit.
Before anointing the official factions with these -cool- things (like the Leader ID, the /lockdown (for leaders only), the discount in some items due to the ID), remember, what made you join your faction? Something has changed?
There are people who likes to be independents, and that's not going to change just for adding cool stuff to the O.factions. And people joining the factions to get the cool stuff, is what we want? For example, restrict the capital ships to official factions, sure a lot of people will try to join it, then they will be official, then they get their cap, then they screw it like if they were lolwut indies (not take me wrong, there are awesome indies, but the point to restrict it is to avoid caplolwuts right?). Some factions are easier to climb on the ranks than others, some factions allow their lower rank bigger ships than other.
Example, in the [LN], to get a gunboat you have to be Lieutenant Commander, that's the 5th rank, that means that you have to work to get it, just a Siege cruiser is the 6th rank. So, if you want a capital ship you have to work a lot of time to get it, and a lot of people don't want to do it, so, they quit or they never join in the first place. Alright, one lolwut less, but, the whole point isn't to get more people in the faction?
To get more people in the faction you don't need to offer them a wonder world, nor tons of special things, because if they join wanting just those things, they are not joining to the faction, but they are joining to the power.
What's my point?
Remember what made you to join a faction, if it was one person, a friend, if it was their actions in game, if it was the faction status, the recruitment office. And emule that.
Also, be the best person you can be. Some factions have a hard RP (pirates, terrorist, privateers, KNF (?):P) but remember that a simple PM with // in the begining could make you a new friend or save a bad moment to someone.
But even then, a lot of people don't want to join, just because they need more freedom in their characters.
Tito Vendetta (corsair) will never join an official faction (even when he was invited) just because I need him to be free.
Like me, there is a lot of people.
I belive that we need to get to a compromise between O. Factions and indies, the factions must respect the indies as equals, and the indies must respect the factions as the people who leads the NPC faction, and their general relations. One thing shouldn't step over the other.
Note: Please give the O. Factions those shinny new things:Pbut remember if they get those new things, it doesn't mean that official factions will be better, nicer or that they will change because of it. It's not about the size, but how you do use it.
Note 2: You can ruin someone's day in a capship or a bomber, as above, it's not about the size.
