Does a Faction's Rank-Limitations keep you away from joining?

[Angelfire]

I'll answer this one as honestly as possible.

I love disco, none of these comments are meant in any negative light. I merely hope to shed possible light on facts that may be of assistance.

When I (and some of my friends) joined disco, it was because the mod advertised that you could fly any of the Capital Ships and Gun Boats.

I strongly suspect that this is true for most (or at the very least - many) players who join up.

Finding the RP element was a bonus. It was fresh, exciting and challenging.

And here begins the journey of challenges.

Joining a faction was difficult. I remember applying to 4 over a period of 2 weeks and finally getting a reply and a complicated test from 2 of them.

We (myself and my 2 friends at the time) went through with it and struggled along by ourselves in this strange new RP universe until we passed the tests etc. (all necessary by the way - as in a good thing!)

The big excitement was to fly all these new and cool ships that were all over the place - like the Ravon's Talon... Which all three of us flew around happily until we wanted to try Gunboats.

This is where our faction life ended.

As n00bs, we had no clue how, who or where.. besides being indies of course. We wanted to be part of a faction with our Gunboats though... it semed a lot more fun.

The three (mainstream) factions that we joined had us flying light fighters for a set amount of time and various other trials and tests... we never got to fly those gunboats!

My friends eventually went back to WOW calling Disco 'an elitist cesspool of nerd w***kers' (Direct quote). Naturally I stuck around because I enjoyed this new found RP element.

I then fell in love with the community and joined one or two factions where I enjoyed my limited play time. (as most of you know, I have very little play time - none lately).

After a year on Disco, the only Gunboats, VHF's and Capships I have been able to enjoy have been as an Indy.

Unless you have huge amounts of play time or have made friends (as I have now) it is extremely difficult to enjoy both ship and RP elements of Disco as a N00b.

Upon my third application to RM I was accepted but simply had no time to run the gauntlets.

The unfortunate truth is that those who have experienced all the fruits of Disco tend to forget how excited they were in the beginning about the ships, the RP and the PvP.

A sense of guilt is projected onto well meaning N00bs when the desire the same experiences (not talking about lowutter douchebags).

I don't have any answers to these concerns because I am neither admin nor faction leader.

there is probably not much that can be done about it because the community is growing so fast.

Possibly the Need for Speed approach - Where you get to test a really cool vehicle right in the beginning before working your way up the ranks to that and better.

Anyhoo... twas all just rambling about my experience... I am not even sure if it is pertinent to this thread.. but there you have it!

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