How to make Discovery better?

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Yes, let us all be nice to each other, not flame and not like an idiot in-game or on the forums. Sounds good right? (The answer is yes.)

Point being, that has as much chance as me feeding Pluto barbeque chips as it rests in my backyard after one long party the previous night.

So, after reading the previous thread I realised the "problem", a term which is to be used lightly since factions already have enough power to deal with "role-play challenged" players, was being approached incorrectly.

It is not about making factions better, it is about making Discovery better. Hence, there should be advantages and disadvantages to being in an official player faction, and there should be advantages and disadvantages to not being in an official player faction.

I think you missed the point as well. I believe what Cannon was trying to propose, was a reward system for official factions for maintaining a higher level of game play by groups that show good examples of role play & promoting it.
I could of course be wrong..

Independent non-existence. Apologies extremists, the chances of it happening are quite low. I am sure, deep down with whatever large or little count of brain cells you have, you know it will change the mod and not for the better. This is Discovery, not Freeworlds. We are also talking about making factions better, not dropping an anvil on everyone else.

Custom ship-lines. Whilst I would support it, unfortunately, adding more ships, for every faction can give rise to problems. It makes the mod bigger, much bigger, if every official faction were to get a ship or two, and all these ships would need balancing. A lot more work, however, it may be worth the effort.

I agree adding more ships may cause more problems, there would be alternatives that could be considered. That was merely a suggestion

Pre-emptive capital ship requests, probationary periods, official faction approval and all associated phrases to describe similar actions. So far, every capital ship registry I have seen go up, has either fallen out of use because the official factions and/or their nominated manager of the registry has failed in keeping the registry up to date, or has resulted in egotistical self-inflation and bias decisions. As for probationary periods, it should be innocent before being proven guilty. (Take the ship away if repeated, provable abuses can be shown.)

To be quite blunt, I would like to know why official faction players want more control of independent players. Are you insecure? Or is it just jealousy that they can trade for the credits and you cannot? Perhaps I am wrong, however, at the moment there are a lot of controls. The server rules, read them. This keeps out most of the role-play challenged players. Apart from that, if someone is being a problem within an NPC faction, you can re-adjust their reputation. Everyone knows what happened to the Apocalypse_ and various other groups when that happened to them. The leaders of the official factions can even give orders, within reason, that have to be followed out. (As for special role-play requests, the Administration appears to be struggling to get through them currently, and by the time they do, quite some time has passed.)

Insecure? no, Fed up YES. It has gotten to the point when you log on to your faction character, you get pm'd by 3 or 4 people complaining that Indy so & so did this, Indy so & so did that, Faction so & so did this. etc.
Most of the factions will try to work with independents & wish to come to an agreement on role play or explain why somethings happen due to current role play. I can count on 1 hand independents that try to police other independents. But unfortunately, most care less & will go on doing what they want regardless how it impacts others in game. With out some form of order you have chaos & lately, there has been far more chaos than order in Sirius.
Prime example would be something someone in other post had mentioned.
A faction contacts an enemy faction for a little role play & battle. Each invite a few Indies to join in on both sides provided they adhere to commands of the people leading the event. 5 minutes into the role play & ensuing battle, more independents show up , won't listen to event leaders or anyone else for that matter & just start a pew pew fest. No respect, no concern for story lines or reason for event, just there to show off their cap ship e-penis.
Thus I ask you now, Why are you afraid of a group filled will ALL official faction leaders & admin to be able to sort out the bad eggs before allowing them a full cap ship usage? Insecure in your role play abilities?

Bonuses. Weekly credit incentives, mining bonuses and so on. Well, why not? There is no reason a Samura trader would pay the same as some gaijin for the same goods. However, such things should be dependent on the ID being mounted, not the tag in the character names. As for paying them to be in an official faction, well, if a faction really wants that for their players, or the players really want that, then I have severe doubts as to why they are in a faction, but eh.

If I missed any other proposed solutions, let me know.

As it stands now, official factions do have power over independent players, and gain a lot more respect than independents. They may pay 500 million for that respect, but they get it back. They also get a Capital Armour VIII, which can be mounted, or even sold for credits. That, and they have a group. Safety in numbers, and all the benefits which comes from flying in a group and not solo.

What else do official factions really need?

I don't see where factions have any power over Indies at all really. We can refuse you entrance to our owned & paid for guard systems to a point & that's about it. yes we have to pay 500 mil to become official, yes we get it back & after time possibly get a cap 8 armor. But we do not get the advantage of freedom that Indies get to roam about & role play as they wish on any whim they want to do.
Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-Indy. I just believe that until a more convincing way to control the chaos is found, More dedicated entities should be able to help police role play & server rules to allow the game to be enjoyable for all.

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