Faction Control of Capital Ships... or...

[tfmachad]

The thing, Linkus, is that official factions don't really have "their" own view of role play per se. More than money (the 500 million stuff) these factions and their "own RP" (when they do have some blatant deviation from the original canon) have been and are always being extensively scrutinized by the community as a whole, through their proposition and feedback threads (not to mention random threads like this one, "X faction does this, Y faction does that).

So I retort the question, "Why independents should answer about their RP?" with, "Why factions should answer about their RP?" If factions are no more than glorified groups of independents, why is it that we feel the need to conform them to the community's standards through all the bashing and nit picking they go through in their proposals and all the hassle of the feedback threads and why is it that independents should be exempt from that same kind of scrutiny?

EDIT: The thing is that official factions are visible and environment influencing game entities because of their player base. Capital ships are visible and influencing game entities because of their size (and firepower). While factions are prone to capital ship restrictions more or less imposed by the community, individuals find themselves impervious to those regulations. While factions are limited by the whole faction creation process, individuals simply "appear".

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