Should official factions have more power?

[Athenian]

I think the thread has been derailed - by the usual topics, i.e. who "controls" ships. "Complete" control, ie ownership, is an unenforceable pipe dream and not permitted anyway - and besides who wants to spend their time frowning at the fact that other players fly a ship by themselves and don't want to join you - maybe it's you who is at fault...maybe it's you who come across as an unimaginative ignoramus.

The other hijacker - the fractious, and ficticious indie/faction divide. With the changes in ship balance, the days of being your own independent one-man nation in your gunboat are over. Organisation is necessary to survive. Factions survive because they are organised.

If there are changes to the status of official factions being contemplated, why has a thread initiated by a member of the Admin team gone to ten pages before some people have to be reminded of powers factions already have by another member of the team?

If the concern is that the use of that power causes you to be accused of something, then perhaps it's worth looking at why people might accuse you of that. Maybe encountering a random faction tagged player in space hollering "You are not permitted to fly that" to someone who has done nothing to disrupt game play leaves a foul taste in one's mouth, as it should. A faction better be damned imaginative in how it behaves in game when it comes to exercising its power.

You could deal with player complaints in a RP manner.....because this game would be heaps more fun if people only ever posted on these forums in role play....but I can dream...

The other aspects of faction "power" - forum presence - got overlooked in all of this. And, crucially, their role in defining what is "accepted roleplay". Isn't destroying an enemy with overwhelming force acceptable roleplay? Is a player who waltzes into a fight to assist members of the same Navy in which he serves acting appropriately? Sure, messing up a dogfight if you are a little eager to try out your flak turrets might be unsporting or whatever, but it's not a reason to start burning crosses in people's front gardens.

What new powers could possibly be contemplated? Because frankly I can't think of any that don't already exist in-game.

That's not to say I don't want more power. Muhahahaha. Er....

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