Should official factions have more power?

[Dusty Lens]

I would say yes.

I believe that, in response to the irresponsible manner in which certain persons exercised the implied power of their positions within official factions over players who declined to sign on that the balance was shifted in a manner that ultimately proved to be overcompensated.

Which resulted in the groups whom represented the "official" face of their respective ID being neutered.

I would like to see a return to potency of the official factions in determining the course and policy of their domestic houses and factions. However I do not believe that power should come with the additional ability to overtly dictate the manner in which non-alligned players of the same ID conduct themselves. Such as we observed with the 101st and the Order before their respective impacts on the way that factions operate.

So that's a very fine line without easily determined means of being enabled, let alone clearly defined.

We have, however, collected a bevy of lessons thus far which nicely demonstrate the destructive tendencies of either moving too closely towards factions maintaining an iron grip to the detriment of the region, such as Rhienland of old, or to when factions can do absolutely nothing save look on in frustration, such as the Rheinland of today.

But suffice to say, almost meaningless drivel aside, I feel very strongly that official factions should witness a dramatic increase in potency coupled with maintaining room for the development of individual efforts and the interests of small "unofficial" groups who wish to follow their own paths.