Faction as a property

[Altejago]

Factions as properties, hmm, well.... Me and Widow and Kettle own DSE). Yes, we own it. It is our property, we worked bloody hard on a faction that's bloody boring. We turned it from a faction that had a poor player base, crap RP and nothing really going for it and transformed it into the behemoth it is today. I can easily say I could run it into the ground, but then I'd have Widow and our 3ic being rather upset about that. Infact, there was an incident a week or so before my month long holiday in December. I was pissed off with how something was dealt, let emotions and RL trauma get to me and I made some bad decisions. However, the stable one of us two, Widow, managed to save it through diplomacy and a swift kick up my behind. 90% of DSE) members are folks who come to play in our faction because me and Widow run the faction in a good manner. We cherish our members, include them in some of the decision discussions and share some of the wealth that goes with it. Very few people came to DSE) for it's vanilla role play, and the people who do join us these days are a majority of powerminers looking to make a buck under the protection of an official faction. As soon as they realize we don't spend our hours powermining, they die off and end up leaving. So those that are left are there because they enjoy playing with us, not because DSE is an exciting faction to be in.

Liberty Rogues on the other hand, has that excitement players want. And I like to think I own it, but the reality is that the LR- was here long before I was, and I am steering the faction in the direction it's always headed except with my own flair under her blouse. Spaz retorted the other day that I was ruining the LR- because I am not doing it the way he did. Sorry mate, but if I did it your way, or Ashes way, we'd be sitting on minimum requirements and with a crap hierarchy. We have a leadership council, veteran members who have been here a lot longer than I have, and I use their knowledge to help me make the right decisions. Sure, I made some controversial ones, but at the end of the day, doing it my way has the Rogues where they are today, and I've been in the crime bosses chair for a year now. And look, they're better than they have been since Dels time and I have a player base who agree.

The motto here is that each faction is a reflection of the person running it, regardless of how ever you wanna look at it. Take IC for example under snak3's rule. He doesn't have much support here, neither did IC for a long time thanks to his doing. Hell, it's only now someone with a good head on their shoulders that IC could actually be a possible contender again in Liberty's market. Good on you Charos.

So really, factions are owned by the people/persons running it. If they weren't, then we could absolve any responsibility for the factions wrong doing and blame it on the next guy. If my DSE) were being douches, Widow or I cop the flak. When LR- does something wrong, I cop the flak. Why should I cop it if I don't own it?