Stronger Factions

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If a single player was the head of each major house faction, and there were no side player made groups, their would be highly seen strength of each faction, and the personality and goals of that faction wouldnt be so hard to understand.

You seem to be saying that if we all joined the vanilla factions, the faction roster of each would be HUGE. yes, it would. Is this a good thing? probably not. Not everyone is suited to work within a faction; some are better as freelancers. I tend to view the smaller non-vanilla factions as freelancers banding together for common interest.

I don't think we really have the super-power disease here, though.

I think that that is due to the canon of FL. Edison Trent was an ordinary joe who ended up helping to save the galaxy/mankind from the squishies. His super-power appeared to be the ability to be blindly indifferent to the charms of his constant companion, Junko Zane.
In WOW, it's fantasy. I'm not trying to say that FL is real, but it is based on science, and maths, and laser beams; stuff we could have if we could work out how to overcome the plasma effect. WOW is different, its based on magic powers, and frost-resistant swords; medieval fiction, stuffed with monsters and dragons and heroes. Its a tough life for heroes; blacksmiths' bills, anti-dragon cream, wear and tear on virgins. Having Uber-Super-pirate-assassin-cyborg-mutant-alien-ninja-battlemage powers does make life somewhat easier.

I think its also a question of age; i'm quite happy playing average joe, without super-powers, cos in real-life, i dont have em, and i get by. When i was a teenager, life was a big and scary world, and having super-powers would have balanced it up some.

There are a few hundred of us.
There are a few thousand of NPCs, millions on the planets.
We CAN be the wierd superhumans simply because we are the minority.

Yep. The npcs are pretty evenly matched - the pirates are better pilots, the lawfuls can bring caps to a situation. The npc's would be 'ohnoez! its a superhuman! Ima gonna get pwned!'
Npc's aren;t hard to kill; that makes us superhuman, or them subhuman, or something...
There, now you don't feel so bad about killing all those xenos: You are acting to improve the bloodlines of the NPC's, and one day they'll be good as us, due to the process of darwinian natural selection.

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