Faction power

[Ingenious]

Ingenious ran unofficial group which I think was better than official faction on same ID.

I am glad someone remembers. Collectors is a sensible example of why these changes I proposed are needed:

• While our goal with Collectors was never to outdo or replace the Congress at all, that was the image that was projected on us, due to the One-Faction-Per-ID rule. Thus, tensions between us and Congress arose over scrap metal prices -- not base rights. But we could have coexisted, if one of the factions on the ID was given priority regarding ID-wide decisions. We would have agreed to forfeit those rights to Congress. As a side note, when Collectors fell apart because one of the co-leaders disappeared and I had RL stuff going on, we did donate our barge to Congress: you will see it online almost every day named .:j:.Collector.
  
• Due to a scrap metal deal gone awry, the leader of DSE went on a jihad against us and nearly succeeded in FR5'ing our whole group from all DSE bases. Though that fell through, we still were forbidden inRP from coming within 5k of bases like Baltimore Shipyard, etc... See the problem? (Cliff and I are on better terms now)
  

Geckon: you've run an official faction? I'm guessing you didn't really start playing on the 5th of May then? And which faction was it?

I'll vouch for him here, and they were extremely active.