ADMIN NOTICE : OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

[Rudo]

As the official leader of the official Junker faction, how much backing do I have in trying to regulate what other Junkers do?

Not that I plan to flex it much, aside from a very impending request to all Junkers to clarify just what the hell they're all doing in Kusari. Yes, there's a bit of RP there to justify an expansion. But that doesn't mean everyone and their mother should be in there harassing what is a sparsely populated and fragile RP environment.

The inside perspective was brought to my attention, certain anti-Junker factions expressed their irritation at just how much of their online time is being spent chasing down Junkers (besides Tink in his barge, which is an issue I'm not touching with a ten-foot pole) who are running trade everywhere and ignoring the "no lawful Kusari docking" portion of the ID. This apparently happens enough that their RP, and their overall enjoyment in playing the faction is impacted.

The Junker IFF/ID is possibly the most abused trading neutrality card out there. While I'm going to put out a request to Junker players out there to pay closer attention to what they're doing, many won't even heed my request or will snark at it like the kid in the back of a high school class does at the teacher. Many of the individuals making Junker tagged transports synonymous with powertrading don't even read the forums.

Leaving them to die at the hands of their enemies apparently isn't working either, as the AFA have expressed to me that they spend at least half their time doing that in Kusari rather than pursuing their own RP.

So with this new ruling, the Congress has the ability to exercise power over what is the most poorly policed and easily abused faction in Discovery. I imagine this is going to be very poorly received, and that .:j:. tagged characters telling independent Junkers to quit trading Optronics out of Honshu are going to get some very insulting replies.

The kicker is that it's completely contrary to Junker RP to open fire on their own, and I'm not interested in killing other Junkers until they learn as they don't listen to what we ask them to begin with. So... what do we do? And who do we turn to when in-game solutions fail?

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