Should official factions have more power?

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Ability to direct npc faction RP in the long run and have it treated as canon (such as RM's development of Rheinland's RP)

No--with a slight caveat.

I am all for creative rp that gets anointed as canon after popular and long-term acceptance. IF it adds to what is already there and does not otherwise restrict it.

We have had factions here propose that other faction bases be removed from areas they wanted to play in. Factions that wanted rights to deny weapons, ships and access to space they wanted to control. Factions who wanted others playing the NPC faction to be forced to join theirs.

Absolutely not.

If a faction comes up with a creative twist that is inclusive and it ADDS to what's there without forcing it--all for it. If it FORCES other players to stop what they do in deference to the faction--big no. And no matter how you couch the idea, their will be people who think their right exists to do this and will lobby by whatever means they need to get it once they realize they might be able to.

I am ALL for more creative freedom. I still remember playing a Hogosha and when hitting npc Bretonian shipping just at the Leeds gate being pmed over and over "That's oorp", "That's not your zoi". When I explained my Hogosha was also an "ultrnationalist who saw it as a duty and a chance to profit I was told over and over again, "Well its still against the rules for the Hogosha." That thinking does need to change.

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