How to make Discovery better?

[barrenwzste]

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.

- Shryke

Wrong, those are all factions. They have faction ID's, faction rules and limits, faction philosophies and mores. They aren't part of the larger factions, and allow more freedoms in some ways and less in others, but they are still factions.

And what if I started my own faction (like I did with the LRF)? Am I still penalized because it isn't official?

Ok, you want to start your own pirate faction, that's not a problem. First pick the larger faction into which they fit, probably pirate. Then develop rules, guidlines, mores, and territories that define the character of the new faction while not violating the role play of the larger faction in which they fit. Then you can either play the new pirates with a few friends, or, try to gain enough members and a deep enough story line that the community is willing to accept it as an official player faction. But untill you become an official player faction, yes, you are still independants.

Your idea of player factions giving out sanctions is so wide open for abuse I almost died laughing.

- Shryke

All systems are open to abuse. For example, right now the npc faction system is being abused. What you do is establish checks and balances to prevent that abuse. The player factions already have a system of checks and balances in place that would prevent abuse.

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.

- Shryke

First, it will never be exclusively in the hands of admins. In the case of the discovery community, our power as a community is somewhat limited. In the game, if we do not like you, do not like your role play, we can personally sanction you by simply ignoring you. Also, player factions police themselves. If your actions are innapropriate your player faction will punish you accordingly. The factions are not abusing thier players, they aren't going to abuse the independants they have to sanction either. If they do, they will be quickly ganged up on by the other factions and sanctioned themselves. As I said, the system of checks and balances for the player factions is already in effect.

Second, I see more official faction memebers reaching out to help people than I see independants. In fact, it is a part of many of the official factions rules. Members are to help guide new players and new members in developing thier role-playing skills as well as thier game knowledge base. It is a perk of being part of that factions community, as well as a service that makes the members feel good about thier own role within the game. Most lolwutters are independants, most players that take them aside and say, "You can't do that, you'll get banned." are faction members.

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