Should official factions have more power?

[worldstrider]

Now, if it were carried out this way, that would be perfect, but I honestly fear that giving factions power over indie players is a bad idea, because for all anybody knows, the said indie could just be doing something within the rules, that a faction member just happens not to like, and...I dunno, do you see what I'm getting at though?

It's already happened. The reason there are complaints and a recent thread about too many rules is because those factions screamed and fought with every means at their disposal to "stay in control".

From their point of view, those were "the good old days" because it was their faction, their friends, their rp and their rules. How rude for others to come along afterwards and want to change and affect that.

The admins have made consistent steps towards a more democratic balance and sometimes need a nudge but without fail--at the first appearance there might be an opportunity--some old faction rep will pop up and say, "Give us back control and we will fix it for you."

No they won't--they will fix it for themselves.

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