1 Faction per ID rule

[Petitioner]

RID OF IT RID OF IT RID OF IT.

Been saying this since it happened.


If a faction wishes to become official they should expect a good yes or no answer with valid reasons as to why not. For example, something like TF7 never needed to be official because it was not intended to represent the main wing of the Navy. They couldn't ever do something like FR5's because they aren't, irp, soldiers on stations that would handle docking at that sorta thing. They were a special task force.
House military and police groups should not have multiple factions under any sort of circumstance. The only possible exception to this might be the LPI, since they're a private corporation. I don't see why the government would refuse to contract a second corporation to do something that the Liberty Police, Incorporated, seems incapable of doing themselves, but that's not really related to the idea of multiple official factions, so...

However, to take an example that's near and dear to my heart, a group like the IMG could easily have more than one "large" group (represented OOCly by official factions, I always think of "official factions" as simply the "largest branch" of whatever NPC group they are representing. In-RP I always refer to the IMG| as the "main branch of the Guild." Just as an example.) since it's not quite such a unified group. I always thought of the IMG, when playing vanilla, as a group that basically stands under a common banner because it's how they survive - in the houses, they're a more unified corporation because that's the easiest method to advance their interests in a structured environment. In the border worlds and edge worlds, they're more, as the infocard says, a loose confederation of miners that go by the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" sort of thinking. Different "branches" would easily develop.

That's just one example - I love the way Kruger RP'd independents - they were "non-unionized workers." Groups like Zoners, it's pretty obvious why they should be able to have more than one "large group." I don't think I need to go into much detail about this.


And, like mwerte said, things like corporations could easily get by RPing different factions as "different RP divisions of the company."

This is all just my own opinion, so feel free to flame and snipe me. In PMs. (I know that somebody will, so may as well welcome it, right?) I don't want this thread to be derailed, as it's the only constructive one I've seen on the matter in a while.



And a quick edit to the people that say there's too many factions around already - please try and think about RP. There's nothing stopping a bunch of people from getting together and making a large group of their own. Your own OOC worldview of how everything ought to be structured does not exist IRP, and if it did for some silly reason, it would not be an all-powerful force.

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