Quote:First and foremost, joining a faction is a requirement to playing on the discovery server. You must choose and join one and then mount the proper id for one. Factions are what define what roles we play. This game is about, and always will be about, your faction and it's relations with the other factions in the game. Rant against that all you want, it is the truth.
Freelancers, independent traders, mercenaries, independent miners, civilians, smugglers, slavers, generic pirates, that's eight off the top of my head that don't put you in a faction. The rest of your post is irrelevant because the rest is based on your false assessment. And what if I started my own faction (like I did with the LRF)? Am I still penalized because it isn't official?
If you want to make official factions more appealing, giving them inherent gameplay advantages is not the way to do it. Your idea of player factions giving out sanctions is so wide open for abuse I almost died laughing. That is something that should always exclusively fall into the hands of the admins, not someone that is angry at a lolwutter who is probably new and needs a polite talk to learn the rules instead of being slapped silly by the system.
Just because you're official it doesn't make you any better than me.
