Strangely I agree with both sides of this discussion. I think that there will be nice to have more official faction ships around but with demanding them to be more active it wont happened. I want to give an example:
Right now for one single group of people let say 5 of them(not new to discovery with enough credits not to be attracted by Snake3 giving them free stork or Avalanche giving them free VHF ) is more beneficial not to join the official NPC faction.
Why?
1 They cannot fly every ship that they want.
2 They need to obey to some kind chain of command.
3 They need to follow some established RP and dont have the option of their own.
4 They will be meta-gamed with the faction tag. Faction tagged traders- yommy.
5 Somehow the bounty boards pay more for faction members.
6 Profit in joining official faction? None...
First this or at least some of this need to be changed if you want to have more official faction members flying around, indeed they have some powers but it is simply not worth it to join. Giving the official factions better stuff in game will change this points until then this discussion is just flame war and it is pointless. Give the factions better ships and better in-game commands. Then the people will burst the recruitment topics and the most factions will hit 100 hours per month simply because now there much more indie players then faction players.
After all it is only old space game shooter, people tend to like to have best pew pew sticks available.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
