Greetings my fellow disco players, so i've been thinking about something, i have written a assignment to the RHA office and after looking at the ranks i thought "Why don't we make it Official factions only?" Because let's be honest, if i would want to fly a BS i could join the NPC faction and just go. Why would i spend months or more time on playing for the official faction starting at the bottom? I think we would have way more players if being in an official faction would be more rewarding.
Don't make caps official only. That's simply restricting of gameplay features. That aside, people like me are horrible in snubs and can't 'earn' their promotions with comats. Some people are just interested in capitals, since Discovery is THE mod that makes them accessable.
Na... Restricting caps is a bad idea. Look at K'Hara, they've got restricted caps to official faction only and almost noone plays as a nomad character. Same could go for SCRA|, as they've restricted caps too. And that means they've got very small if any indie playerbase.
If you want something special, you can always SRP it. That will need lots of effort but may be worth it. Official factions are rather only for heavy RP purpose, while indies are more flexible in that term. In my opinion official factions are just a waste of time, you need to meet some time requirements, what forces you to log, especially if you don't have a big playerbase.
Restricting capitals would kill discovery. And it is not a dramatic speculation, if caps disappeared, there would be no more cap raids
This is the way it used to be. Caps were very restricted and it sucked for players that were not able to obtain them. Players need the opportunities to try out different ships, not just the top ranking official faction members.
Allowing for official faction only to have caps would be bad since sometimes people dont get along . Why would I have to join a official faction to fly a ship if I don't like the leader there for example?
There are different ways to make your faction rewarding to play. Each faction usually has their own unique take on it.
Server died over single night. Admins tried to negotiate middle-ground like eg. "cruisers for SRP-like process", but it never recovered, line was already crossed and playerbase lost all trust to the server owners.
This would only kill interest of people in playing, not motivate them to join factions. As other said, people who prefer caps over snubs are in huge disadvantage because it takes quite some time to climb up the ranks to be allowed to fly caps.
My opinion is that much better solution would be official factions having slightly better tech. Let´s say 10-20 % bigger cargo space or power core or armor. That would motivate people to join official factions but would not kill indies, because for example 10 % advantage is not that much difference (skill still makes majority of difference).
(08-15-2016, 08:36 PM)Laura C. Wrote: This would only kill interest of people in playing, not motivate them to join factions. As other said, people who prefer caps over snubs are in huge disadvantage because it takes quite some time to climb up the ranks to be allowed to fly caps.
My opinion is that much better solution would be official factions having slightly better tech. Let´s say 10-20 % bigger cargo space or power core or armor. That would motivate people to join official factions but would not kill indies, because for example 10 % advantage is not that much difference (skill still makes majority of difference).
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