Unofficial Factions on Discovery Forums

[elrica]

One of the few that actually matters imo. I'd say leave it as is. Factions that want to go official get a lot of publicity from their faction officialdom request.

It is rather frustrating for people using the same ID as an official faction though. We cannot become official, even if our RP is pretty distinct from the official faction. Which is fine, I understand the logic of keeping faction rights to a single group. But saying, "hey, you aren't official! You're not allowed to RP on the forums with the aim of meeting more people to have fun with", I just can't understand.

The only other alternative, (if you hang around in sparsely populated space) is using OORP to recruit in-game. Which kind of defeats the point in my humble opinion.

Can we not organise recruitment in a similar way to how FR5s are handled by factions-with-subfactions? Perhaps, if the official faction is ok with the unofficial faction then the unofficial can recruit, either in the unofficial subforum, or on their respective ID's official faction's subforum to keep things tidy. Just ideas, feel free to rip them apart.

Edit:(this is aimed at everyone btw, it kind of sounds like I'm having a go at mwerte. That wasn't my intention, sorry:Ptoo much coffee)