Think now, on the LN or the BAF or RM. You see them and know that they are official. That they are primier RPers. That they are senior members of this community and are note-worthy characters by their own processes of trial and error.
That is the benefit of becoming official.
Actually that's the benefit of time and visibility. Anyone can be in that situation, including unrecognized factions. It just takes staying out of Group chat and visiting the forums. I'm curious to know exactly how the "Acknowledged power to represent the NPC faction in role-playing" works, since the system-owning end of officialdom doesn't appeal to my group, and we are planning to RP exiles.
Our attraction is "Special RP status", but when we get turned down and are out 500 million, what then? What encouragement are we to have to try again? What does "Acknowledged power to represent the NPC faction in role-playing" really mean that is different from being non-official?
