|I|I| Daemons (Also known as "The Binary')

[Jinx]

a few comments about the whole business....

this IS a delicate issue - it is not only a much greater fuss about a faction that is either falling apart - or is meant to fall apart or is only rumored to fall apart ( but any way..... it can be a self fullfilling prophecy ) - but its also a precedent about the effords of a custom faction that is / was close to get a fully official status in terms of identity, ships etc. .

part of the problem is also of course the delay of 4.85 that would have pushed the faction further - but it would only be ONE push - a faction needs to propell itself further after that.

what i have seen from the harvesters recently ( based on a subjective point of view ):
- i have seen harvesters in-game... not many, by far not as many as there were when it was "fashionable" to be an AI - but there were 1 or 2 around quite continuously ( mind 1-2 are not enough to be a factioin )
- i have seen the admin mention about inactivity
- i have ( myself ) mentioned doubts about the status the harvesters would take up - and the realiy ( different forum )
- i have seen quite some hysteria about it
- there was a roll call ( which did not really go too well, i daresay )
- i have seen multiple threads that explained / reassured the situation to calm down

now - it shows that there is a lot of interest in the faction, yet the faction is quite inactive ( compared to some other factions ) .... however... factions like "natures last hope", "farmers alliance" or even the "KNF" have periods ( sometimes longer ones ) of relative low activity, too. ( especially when compared to high activity factions like "=CR=" "benitez", "opg", "LN" or others )


i think what is really needed is less rumor - more facts. - and honest facts if possible.

the harvesters faction ( and there is a reason there is a leader or a second in command etc. ) should explain that the faction is still up and running. - i am sure that there is no problem with a few weeks / months of low activity - but the faction should still be running. - rumors won t help there at all.

so if scorn does not come back - it would be nice to know if the reason for that is that he is just tired of freelancer, has no time due to RL stuff or ... maybe there are other reasons that do not include the first 2 options. - it should be looked into it in case if fixable or not.

if scorn does not come back, the second in command should take over and try to get the faction running again.

making a faction when everyone wanted to ba an AI ... thats an EASY job. - now is the time to prove if the faction can make it when AIs are not as fashionable anymore.... prove that the faction can still attract ROLEPLAYERS and add to the disco servers enviroment.... if necessary - reform the faction from the very base. ( other factions have done it, too - just recently i learned that the NovaPG has sort of reformed completely in terms of faction history etc. )

the faction HAS more to look forward than other factions that form up. - if you manage to succeed, you get your own ID, your own ships - thats stuff that other, much larger factions and factions that have been highly active for a long long time waited ages for.

so i d suggest to pull yourself together - gather what you really have and revise the faction concept. if you don t get new recruits.... its mainly due to the fact that the server has changed and the faction has not - time to change then! - if it turns out to be too much work .... face the inevitable... maybe the time of AIs is gone, and AIs are "only special RP chars" anymore - but not whole factions.... .

** and if you give up, i ll have the harvester cruiser put onto an inaccessable base and request to fly it exclusivly:laugh:

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