Quote:Aknowledged power to represent the NPC faction in role-playing. Aknowledged right to own a system.
But representing the NPC faction doesn't give you the right to police other members, as an NPC faction would, apparently, thus invalidating the statement.
But you do not have full control over the system in the same manner that you do not have full control over the independent players.
Look. I don't have an issue with indies. I like them, I was an indie Outcast captain long before I took over the 101st, and I know how it is to be an indie. For the most part the indies will do whatever the faction asks; they're cooperative, and they look up to the factions as the senior members of the NPC Faction playerbase as regulators and policymakers (Hell, I just got a PM from a player asking for permission for an OC Dessie, despite the fact that he knew full well that sales are currently not regulated, and kudos to him, if he reads this). The issue comes when you get an indie that decides to make himself Uber Admiral Chamragnajer of Faction X and put himself above all the factions. We are going to blow him up, because as far as we're concerned he's trampling on all of our RP and the RP of all the indies who take cues from us (most all of them). It gets more difficult when you get somebody who says "NAU! U CANT MAIK ME!" and throws a hissy fit, dragging an Outcast Dreadnought (as is the constant in all of my scenarios) through space, trampling all over everybody, raiding solo in caps, starting wars, and being so barely in-roleplay it's painful. You can't have them sanctioned, and your repeated attempts to explain to them what they're doing wrong are ineffective, so what do you do? Roleplay them into exile, generally by the Big Stick method. We can't even stop him from entering our sovereign space, the sovereign space we paid for control of, to walk out with a huge warship an become the last example, just because he has his tag and ID straight. I think that's a really big problem. Allowing the factions the power to police their own indies is a positive thing; the only issue is in cases like Black Squadron, where the regulation exceeded the limits of Canon. That's where the Admins come in and establish that the faction is out of bounds and reign it in. It shouldn't usually happen because there are rarely instances where a faction has to go outside of its canon, but denying the right to police the playerbase (as any military force, policial force, and the things in between are expected to do) outright isn't the way to go.
Quote:Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen
