Does Disco still have enough player base to keep running all factions ?

[Adam_Spire]

Why would anyone bother to join a faction or bother to make a faction when they can have their ships, their guns, their ID, their IFF, and not ever have any responsibility to that faction., it's as we in the dice roleplay world call, "Munchkin Heaven."

Does anyone remember the Ori? Zoner tech, zoner ships, Zoner ID Zoner IFF. Blew the hell out of anyone and everyone to mirror the Stargate theme. Oh they died.

Now! We have tons of Indy Zoner dreads, cruisers and carriers flying all over the place in house space and where ever they please doing the exact same thing. Oh but they are Independents. Problem solved! And for some god damn reason, we're just dandy with it! And -just- incase someone tossed my Zoner carrier into that mix, I went through the Roleplay fire of making damn sure the Zoners knew exactly who and what that carrier was to be used for. If I screw up in that ship, Zoners know exactly whos door to knock on. These Indys have not a care in the damn world who they tick off.

House governments are to blame as well. Rheinland started "talking" to a Zoner and Bretionia independent Battleship making a base in a Rheinland system and did not a damn thing about it. This is Rheinland we're talking about. Something has fundimentally when off the wall. I cannot even tell the parts of the Rheinland faction any more. I mean we were taking orders from an untagged, ubiquitously named independent Rheinland battleship, helping the other independent Zoner and bretionia indys. Really? I've been in Rheinland, roleplaying the last 2 years and I have no flipping clue whos who.

What could -another- faction help to prove or benefit Disco if the existing ones are all screwed up?

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