"New faction creation process and representation" discussion thread.

[pbrione]

The main flaw in Magoo's plan on the previous page (besides its compexity) is the issue of resolving disputes through Civil War - are we honestly saying that if some pirate groups comes up with a proposal that the other pirate groups reject for being stupid, then group A can simply beat the others in PvP and then they will be forced to follow his proposal or be sanctioned?

Why must these councils be official? It is unneccessary and unworkable regulation. OORP councils as a forum for discussion between players of a House, certainly - it is useful and it already exists. But having "voting rights", chairpersons, compulsory representation of certain indies (still not sure how that is to be decided - bear in mind that new players will have no idea whether the person trying to order them around is a powerful "Council" indie or just some random idiot) - there is really no need. Faction leaders of established factions tend to be responsible people - that's how they got their jobs after all - I am sure they can act responsibly and reach consensuses without having to go through voting meetings (which would each take at least 2 days to get anything decided, as people won't all show up at once).

As for the faction creation rules - I'm fairly sure that the current system is fine with regards to how it grants certain factions "monopolies" over their npc group - in fact it doesn't. There is nowhere in the rules saying only one faction per npc faction, what there IS is an encouragement to create factions for npc factions that are currently unrepresented instead of fully represented ones. I'm sure if you could create a proposal for a new Rheinland Military proposal that managed to both differentiate you from and not infringe upon the activities or reduce the RP of the [RM] then it would be given due consideration, I just find it highly unlikely that you would be able to.

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>