Colonial Remnant ID

[themasterelite]

Wort,

I have decided to make my weekly post here...of all places...because I was experiencing an urge and my Barbed Strangler Warriors were incapable of suppressing said urge as it had WAAGH!, which rendered my attempts null and void.

Firstly:

"So I pose this; Lift the restrictions on the CR ID. Perhaps at the coming of 4.86. If it all goes wrong and indies screw you over, change it back, simple as that."

Perhaps it didn't occur to you but...as soon as a restricted faction opens the floodgates for the indies, there's no going back. As others have voiced here, to make such a faction unrestricted is to basically allow people to do the exact same thing as they would in the faction, but without having to abide with the orders given them by the Officials. To give the indies a place there would be to effectively create a copy and paste of the Order as it is now, namely having indies left and right completely disregard the orders of a superior officer due to A) lack of knowledge, B) lack of interaction, and/or C) blatant insubordination because they don't care anyway.

Being in an official faction forces you to take more responsibility generally, especially when it comes to dealing with superior officers, and as such results in far less of these roleplay problems. Additionally, the persons in the faction are much more immersed in the mechanics and lore of the faction, allowing the newer players among them to learn and improve. This does not mean they always do, but there is far more room for them to. Of course, all of this also depends on the faction itself in regards to how effective this immersion is.

Want to be a Colonial? Join the faction. You don't want the responsibilities that come with it? Well, that's your choice. The "association with the lolwutery of the faction" is also something you'll have to live with. Allow me to suggest that, if you don't like that, join them and labor to improve it. Also, I advise you learn to discern what is and isn't worth your bandwidth when it comes to "Community Reputation". Its what you do about it that matters, not what they think about you.

Secondly,

"Vampyroteuthis.Infernalis"...Karlotta, the being with a thousand names...surely you have something better to do with your time? You have the internet at your disposal. You could go learn a foreign language with all the information and dedication you spend posting here. Allow me to suggest that you go try it.

Thirdly,

"Well, thats the thing, even if they are originally an import, I think the RP is beleivable and good enough to be built upon by the ENTIRE community, not just faction members. A faction member isn't going to speak in argument over another faction member about something, but an indy would."

I give you full marks for intelligence, but limited in foresight, you are. Eat more carrots [and cookies] you must.

If you want to build upon it within the faction, why not aid the faction members with said suggestive development instead of simply hindering it by tying them down with uncontrollable indies? Want their roleplay to improve? Join the faction. Talk to the other members about it. You'll get much more ears if you're one of their own anyway. Once again, this can be done without opening the floodgates for the indies.

As I'm continuing to read, I have started to wonder if you're looking to improve the faction, but trying to solve it in the wrong way. With that in mind, consider my suggestions. When it comes to Community Reputation, its pretty much all a popularity contest, and there'll always be someone else. Ergo, its better to ignore Community-imposed reputation than operate with it as your standard of measurement for what you do and don't want to do. If anything, you doing exceedingly well in the faction only fights against that imposed reputation.

In the end, it boils down to whether you have fun or don't have fun. If you think it'd be fun to improve CR's roleplay depth or help the "lolwut" officials become more civilized, join the faction. You might have more fun than you expected in ways you also might not have anticipated.

If you don't think it'd be fun to have a reputation pinned on you by the community that you don't feel befits you, well...guess what? This is Disco. Need I say more?



Wort.

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