Current Order Status

[McNeo]

1: TCG, TOP (whats left), Cerberus, and 63rd would be locked in a power struggle, with OSS if they pop back up. All sides would struggle while I at least would hide away and let the carnage happen. All other indies and choose sides, and,we'd have,another SCRA Civil War, minus the RP.

Why do you care about that? It's the admins who decide which one becomes official if they all go for it, and those who sling the most mud stand the least chance of becoming official. The only way this can be exploited is if a bunch of them get together and conspire, one or more of them forfeiting their chances of officiality to degrade a rival faction, allowing one run by their friend to stay out of the 'war' as you put it and become favoured. I'd place this likelihood at slim to none, as the admins aren't suckers and will likely cotton on to that.

2: Yeah, fine. Order| should distance itself and be like the Navy. What exactly would that acvomplish? I dont see anything but those who hate the current Order-Indie relations waging war.

It would accomplish near enough the same things it has for Liberty; you'll be able to conduct diplomacy without constantly worrying about idiots wearing your tag and ID flying their shiny Osiris into their main planet and declaring an arbitrary no-fire-zone (for example).

3: we have different thoughts. If the Order| distances itself from the indies, then us indies should then form our own OHC. If the Officals wont care, then who will?

If indies form their own OHC, that would be -great-. Order| would then be able to effectively communicate with every indie through their own command structure. The barrier to this is, however, the same as it is for Liberty indies. The latter don't stick around for very long, and for the most part, want to be called Lord-Admiral-the-Great without the trappings of responsibility that come with such title. If Order indies were to form their own command structure, that would be great and I would expect to see a tendancy towards cooperation again.

Perhaps it's important for me to say that the Liberty Navy has never in its history distanced itself from independent players who were willing to work with them. But let me say, the vast majority are not interested, so that's generally what you see. I do recall a few excellent independent players that recieved full attention from the factions.