Faction power

[Ingenious]

I'm not sure what arrogated power you are talking about. Do you mean the vain boasts that can't be actually backed up with action? Having run GMG|| for yrs I totally missed on this power we supposedly had. If your talking about the list of Faction Rights, it happens to be what I'm talking about too. Go ahead and take leadership of a faction and see how "influencing the storyline" really works, see how applying a FR5 really works, or see how influencing Indies works. In the end you'll know, as faction leaders do, this decisions come down to other staff not the faction leaders. The responsibilities, I'm not even gonna be jaded and say that's the only thing being applied to factions since it's not exactly being applied but it will be applied if any request/suggestion is made. I was notoriously uncaring of official status for GMG| and woulda let the status go but I was outvoted regularly in this department. In the long run, having tickled the faction rights many times since it's implementation I'd say that the processes that govern official factions is no different now then it was before the faction rights were posted.

I value your perspective a lot, but keep in mind I am talking even earlier than the faction rights. Think back to the Praetyre debate (yes I was around for that.) Regardless, the fact that they are called "rights" is a symptom of the problem. If anything, they are a privilege which is earned.