Should official factions have more power?

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If official factions who claim to be the entire NPC faction get more power, they should be put under another round of community scrutiny.

In my view, there should be no player faction that controls the entire NPC faction.

This is a game, I come here to enjoy myself. If I want to go buy a battleship then I will go buy one. I don't want to spend months trying to work up a damn faction ranking system just to get my hands on a ship that I may only use infrequently anyway.
Pretty much the most important thing to me in Discovery is the freedom you have to RP things the way you want, as long as they are within the server rules. If I want an Order Osiris to go off to the far reaches of Sirius on research missions, I'll do it. If someone can logically prove that it would be more useful elsewhere, I would go there instead.


Giving more power to Official factions to control the system they own would make sense though. Move the guard restricted ships to ANOTHER system. It can be one that already exists even. It is not hard to place a station with guard rep and some guard NPC patrols around it in a normal system and it achieves the EXACT same effect that guard systems have in reducing cap numbers currently.
Let Official factions have total control over their system and to enforce whatever laws they want within it.
I mean, why not? Guard systems tend not to be used in trade runs and you only go there with intention and with the guard ID required ships moved or available elsewhere too, it eliminates that issue completely.

However, the more power that is given to player factions to 'control' independant players, the more restricted the independant players are and overall, the less fun they will have. All it does is actively encourage bullying.

Why the hell should a player have to work his way up the ranks of a faction, that only has power because they were there first, for months simply to roleplay a role he probably now has completely lost interest in?


People being idiots in OOC ways should be dealt with in OOC ways. Not by a faction.
What's to stop a faction simply saying 'You can't do that, it goes against the roleplay we made up and since we are the entire faction, you are then subject to this' and going off and blasting them?
Nothing.
Giving them that control just encourages power abuse and solves a problem in a way that, while less work for the Admins, could be and IS already dealt with by sanctions.

I really don't see why a player faction would really want to be the entire NPC faction anyway. They have less freedom in their roleplay simply because they are completely tied to the NPC faction roleplay already set down.

I hope this doesn't come off as biased by the way, I have more faction characters than independants.

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