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

[Blodo]

I have been thinking about this for a fair while now: what do you do to prevent people in the same NPC faction as you (per admin allowance, factions like Phantoms or SCRA need not be concerned) from ruining fights and/or RP you are involved in?
Do you shoot them if they disobey your orders? No. Not only does that solve nothing, since it teaches the guy exactly nothing, it is also an offense on the Discovery server, one that will earn the shooter a nice, shiny sanction.
Do you try to prevent them from acquiring your ship's faction in the first place? No. There is no possible way of doing that without sitting on the server 24/7 in a force appropriate enough to take down the stragglers.
Do you try to get them to register on a list and make them promise that they will obey your orders? No. Morons won't comply with that and/or will just sign the list then go ahead doing whatever they were doing before. People who aren't morons will meanwhile be inconvenienced by the paperwork.

I suppose some of you may remember how I posted some time ago my theory about how a non tagged NPC faction player is regarded by the other people of the same NPC faction not by the rank that he can make up for himself, but by the respect that his presence commands. If he is respected by the others, then they will respect his RPed rank as well. If he acts like an irresponsible idiot, then he will command no respect.

So what then do we do about people who we tried to help fit into the community time and again, but they just refuse to comply? Those who simply can't take the hint to improve and who to top it all off rule lawyer their way out of sanctions? We leave them alone. When they need us in a fight, we don't come. When we find that the battles they bring to us are pointless, we don't fight them. When they want to drag us out to go kill someone.. whoever for the sake of killing, we don't come. If we have less respect for them than for our enemies, we let our enemies sort the deal. If all else fails, passive vigilantism seems the be the way onward.

Aside from my rather cynical attempts to answer the question of "what if all else fails..." above, I do find myself agreeing with Xoria despite my initial concerns over the admins involving themselves in faction restrictions all of a sudden. You can't try to apply force on the internet, it simply does not work that way. Now, the way I have been taught, if an approach does not seem to be working, you need to try something new. Like psychology...