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

[torchwood]

This is a really interesting topic. As a faction leader, the idea behind restricting the ships in the XA is to filter out the people who wouldn't be particularly dedicated.

I recently instituded the same idea in the LN. I put the new guys in Executioners to start with and they fly in that ship for eight hours (same as the XA) before getting a promotion and a VHF (Guardian or Avenger) and bomber (havok:().

I have seen a massive improvement in people will to roleplay with these ideas in place. Neither faction is all about the pvp, and both are based very firmly in Liberty and thus people need to get used to exploding, a lot, and often for very stupid reasons.

Not only does it get people used to the idea that winning and losing are not that important it also gives people a sence of achievment and a trophy for that. In the XA you'll see very few people in taiidans (the indy xenos seem to use rather a lot) but only the most trusted and high ranked member of the XA get the taiidan bomber at the moment (next mod we'll be switching them all out for civvy's anyway). This is a symbol of all that they have acheived in the faction, and keeps a lot of people motivated.
I'm all for it in if I'm to be honest. I think it keeps the interested and dedicated guys motivated.

Restriction = challenge
Challenge forces team play and inventiveness
Team play and inventiveness = fun.

/signed prove youself and you get rewarded

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