Unofficial Factions on Discovery Forums

[Ingenious]

This policy is still ridiculous.

[Daedric]

Any update on the admin discussion of this topic? I know y'all were considering dropping it, what's the deal-e-o.

---

Helpful Discovery Guides

Get Help Here! | Player Base Guide | Mining Guide | Trading Guide

Reputation Guide | Zoner Rep Guide

OSI Information | Join OSI! | Nichols Trade Center
OSI Bounty Board | OSI Feedback

[Petitioner]

I have made topics, spent hours trying to civilly discuss and brainstorm ways to improve upon issues and complications here, but I am met with trolling, flaming, and general aversion to any form of change suggested. It comes to a point where after 50+ well thought out, reasonable, multiparagraph posts are rebuked, one feels the need to be a little more straightforward.

I was being blunt in the post you are apparently warning me for in that fancy green text, trying to show in a humorous manner how silly a restriction like this is. Official factions have extremely easy responsibilities, yet they receive an extremely disproportionate amount of power. Now a group of players who create a faction and don't wish to go through the process to have the O word slapped in front of them can't even ask for people to join? Really?

Hence the comment, now it's a sanctionable offense just to ask for friends to play with. Don't tell me that you don't see what I mean.

In addition to the multitudes of other posts I've quoted just to remind people of the points in them,

THIS. >CENSORED< THIS, PEOPLE.

---

Recruitment | Task Force Prometheus | ICN FIRESTORM

[Lich]

Does this rule stop or hinder unofficial clans recruiting? I don't think so, I've not experienced any difficulties because of it personally but maybe that's just me.

A faction is born ingame and whether or not if it will last is determined there too not on a forum.
In my opinion this forum is merily a tool to aid in the monitoring of ingame events/deals and provide roleplay zones. Not a place to advertize recruitment. It is nice for the officials to have their own zone and list how you could join them there but I doubt they actually need it themselves.

---

Lich wiki - XTF Forum

[Ingenious]

Does this rule stop or hinder unofficial clans recruiting? I don't think so, I've not experienced any difficulties because of it personally but maybe that's just me.

A faction is born ingame and whether or not if it will last is determined there too not on a forum.
In my opinion this forum is merily a tool to aid in the monitoring of ingame events/deals and provide roleplay zones. Not a place to advertize recruitment. It is nice for the officials to have their own zone and list how you could join them there but I doubt they actually need it themselves.

XTF represents a popular NPC faction, Outcasts. It is harder with less popular NPC factions when you meet fewer people playing those factions in the first place. How much harder? Depends. Maybe I should just try harder.

[Madvillain]

although me and my friends are doing quite well setting up our unofficial faction , recruiting here would be nice , but i dont see it as neccesary ....

---

Baila Morena | Toilet Trouble | Elder Presidente[TBH] | The Titan Combat Manual | Confession
♰ Join the Corsair Brotherhood ♰

[Ingenious]

*a tumbleweed bounces by*

can we have an update on this? if we're going to be banned from looking for friends to play with indefinitely, please lock. otherwise, please let us know.

[Stefz]

I would say keep the silly rule cus its important for the officials, but can the officials recruite for the unofficial faction in thier sub forum, through Rp like, put a note that this group are important to us and are looking for support....

EX. [LN] puts notice of [NG] HQ "info post" link, so that some of the people that try to join LN might not have what it takes so they go to [NG] instead.

this is a way to send the less RP developt people to the starting factions, to learn more.

Totaly agreed..:yes:

---

[r3vange]

XTF represents a popular NPC faction, Outcasts. It is harder with less popular NPC factions when you meet fewer people playing those factions in the first place. How much harder? Depends. Maybe I should just try harder.

XTF are a popular PLAYER faction get your terminology straight mate. But I digress, with this rule the situation is basically total despotism over the unofficial factions. How would a faction gain enough members and publicity to become a fully fledged official one? Furthermore there are factions that DO NOT wish to be official though they have the players and the activity. Unofficial faction doesn't not transcribe as lolwut faction


And I still believe this:

<span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%][color=#33FF33]Players are prohibited from playing on the DiscoRP 24/7 Server

will happen

---

[Ingenious]

XTF are a popular PLAYER faction get your terminology straight mate.

I meant that they play Outcast characters, and the Outcast NPC faction is popular amongst players in general. Sorry for the confusion.

But I digress, with this rule the situation is basically total despotism over the unofficial factions. How would a faction gain enough members and publicity to become a fully fledged official one? Furthermore there are factions that DO NOT wish to be official though they have the players and the activity. Unofficial faction doesn't not transcribe as lolwut faction

I don't see why some people have such difficulty understanding the above statement. It's not like opening recruitment for unofficials will lead to some sort of "killing off" of factions as I have been accused of trying to perpetrate in the past. Guess what-- I'm in an official faction and I don't want to see it die. I do want to see players given the ability to form groups on the forums, where things happen.