In fact most well known pirates should be working like this anyway. RPwise the hackers should be doing it 24/7.
But of course, most faction ideas -are- good. Now here are the drawbacks and reasons as to why it has a chance of failing, even though I don't play disco, my 4 years of experience will be talking here:
1. People will hate you and say that you're metagaming. Because, to the retards which think they know how to rp -more than half of disco- but obviously don't, will see it as metagaming because ''skype'', they won't understand that not all communications have to go through the forums to be legit.
2. Your ''proxy agents'' will be the reason of your ''originality'' because no one else as know it actually does this (even though they should), without it, you'll be just another pirate faction. And those factions are generally run by a tight group of friends, and won't be getting many recruits.
3. Your proxy agents will have to be people that play all the time, you have to give them some kind of fun. Sure, the gathering intelligence thing will work a few days or a week or two, but it's going to get really boring if you can't find something else for them to do, up to you. But once they're bored, your faction becomes just another pirate faction, and -will- die.
4. Since you don't have any faction background, I can't comment on your ZoI, but you can easily make it all of sirius.
5. I don't like the name. Not original, too mainstream, and retarded in my opinion. Yeah this 5th thing isn't as important, but still, just putting that out there.
Those are just the things I see immediately without checking your diplomacy or anything. And as to what you should do:
1. Do not give a damn about the hate people throw at your faces, simply pirate them again and again, make them rage, sanction and ban, less retards to deal with that way.
2. More stuff for your proxy agents to do.
3. Make a damn background, even if it's ''James Callahan and a few of his buddies which are all rich decided to be *******s and pirate everyone, then The Shadows just happened.''
Yep, I can see more problems and many more suggestions to give, but it's best if you saw them yourself.
