Official faction activity

[Ingenious]

[color=#660000]To whom it may concern: I would love it if you don't troll and hijack this post like you do in all the other non-RP topics on these forums. You know who you are.

Read the entire post. This is not for personal reasons. This is a proposal to benefit the server.

I suggest that the standards be raised to a height that no faction currently maintains. They can maintain it. They just have to try. If the standard changes, it will be maintained, by one faction or another.

Or we may be one step closer to bringing the server to total fascism. What standards would you suggest? Please make a new thread for discussion of proposed changes.

Proposed criteria to keep official status

• <strike>300 hours of play per month among faction members</strike> a number of play-hours proportional to influence
  
• Host one organized event per month
  
• Respond to forum roleplay communication in a timely manner
  

Please critique these suggestions. I don't think they're unreasonable. I will give my reasons below.

Mathematically speaking, the Discovery RP server is capable of delivering roughly 144,000 play-hours per month.

200 players * 24 hours per day * 30 days per month = 144,000.

Realistically, roughly half of this is used -- around 70,000 play-hours per month. I call for factions to rack up 300 hours of combined play per month. Why? If you're going to lay claim as an official faction to an NPC faction that possesses 10% of the power in the Sirius sector, ideally you would represent 10% of server activity. 7,000 hours. This is really not possible for any faction to achieve. I think 300 hours balances the practical considerations of a faction with the level of power that comes with it. 300 play-hours is only about 0.5% of server activity. Really, is that asking too much?

[color=#000000]In this way, faction power/rights and faction activity are directly correlated. If you cannot maintain the activity, you simply should not maintain the power or rights, either.


The logic behind requiring the hosting of one organized event per month also lies in such a reasonable correlation. Organized events are a concrete tie between forum relations and ingame roleplay. A faction that slacks in either of these departments will have a very hard time putting together an organized event. A faction that excels in both of these departments will have no trouble thinking of some sort of event, no matter how small. Nuclear mine giveaway?

Lastly: response to forum communication. This is crystal clear already. If you don't respond to tech requests and pertinent issues within a reasonable amount of time, why should you have any influence over them?