Setting official faction activity minimum at 48 hours?

[Echo 7-7]

Hmm, it seems you ignored my earlier criticisms. Oh well, they're still there to be read.

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I mean, getting nerf chart and ID rephacks are not another one of perks Official Factions obtains over WHOLE NPC faction, including it's indies? What you did for that in addition to simply playing the game and making few posts there and here?

Plus it is not about the power. It is about of actually making impact on server gameplay. If someone has the authority over NPC faction but fails to actually make any impact in game, what's the point?

Making faction interesting should be leader's responsibility, and keeping activity responsibility of players who chose to join the faction.
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Bear in mind that the tech nerf chart applies to all users of an ID, not just the official faction. That means that the faction is doing work to acquire out-of-faction tech for their ID, and guess what? Indies don't have to lift a finger to take advantage of that work.

As for impact on server gameplay; better that someone has it and doesn't use it, rather than that possibility not existing at all. What's to say one player could run a faction better than another player? In recent months, I have seen extremely few instances where a player, or entirely new group of players, has attempted to challenge the position of a presiding official faction. That implies the already established factions, even if they're not doing the best they can, are still providing more than anyone else is attempting to provide.

Keeping a faction interesting internally is a leader's job, yes. For example, for a PvP faction, the leader might provide certain incentives for players to utilise certain ships or fight certain enemies in a certain area. However, he's still limited to what the faction's ID permits them to do - he can't "make things interesting" by picking a new enemy on the other side of Sirius to start shooting (with very few exceptions, and which is often regarded as poor RP regardless). Yes, activity is a shared responsibility.

It's like zombies shouting POWER! perhaps?

I currently am in two unofficial groups. I have way more fun then I ever had in official faction or even being indie before.

Another argument is that if Gallia's faction cannot be active, then stay unofficial and don;t force laws on us if you have no manpower to uphold them. Thank you, goodbye. :cool:

Q_Q for you then. Some of us greatly enjoy our true-indie and official faction characters. You not having fun in an Official Faction is really your own fault, as no one forces you to stay in a faction.

Manpower is dependent on server activity and time zones, just like the enforcement of every single other inRP authority, be it lawful, unlawful or otherwise. If they meet the set standards which the Admins have approved, then they are permitted to take certain actions (such as formulating House laws). Don't like it? Then go do a better job than those currently running the faction.

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