Stronger Factions

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Okay less emphasis on the character types and more on the faction strength in my post.

My point is sort of this, in the story where it currently is what is Liberty's goal? How many players are rping towards that goal? Or all they all in New York playing police even if they are LNS? What is Kusari's goal? Do enough people even play Kusari forces to rp towards that goal? What is the Outcasts and Corsairs goal? Does every side faction within them spend more of their time focused on pirating in sigma 13 and fighting for pirating space rather then focusing on the rather escalated war according to the story between them? I dont even see the allies that have joined each side participating along that part of the story, or recognizing it for that matter. The farthest it goes is "I can fly this ship cause last update they became our allies" or "now they wont attack me and i can land at their base since we are allies." When things that would create enormous amounts of interesting RP would be these allied factions strengthing their ties through RP events.

Yeah i know i cant say "You cant play it this way." No one can but admins as they lay down the rules. What my point is, there IS a story to this game. Is Bretonia's story being played out or is every Bretonian force playing police? Is Liberty's story being played out or is every Liberty force playing police? Is Rheinland's story being played out or is every Rheinland force playing police? Are any of the unlawfuls stories being played out or does every single unlawful faction and its side factions focus on pirating?

Im saying i see a game with mods and admins talking to the players like crazy. It has the best potential to have its story driven by the players, and the news at bars could be updated constantly to keep all the players in the loop with "foreign affairs" or even "internal affairs". So no one would be exactly left in the dark on what each faction is moving towards.