Q4 2025 Parole

[Luke.]

After discussion, it has been decided that all factions stripped and warned in the 4th quarter of 2025 will be reverted one step towards good standing - Warned factions return to full good standing and stripped factions are restored to a warned status.

Why?

Let's make this fair then- let's revert every faction which was lost in the past 12 months.

Otherwise, this is just another reminder to the community of what such great efforts certain staff will go to to protect their buddies instead of making everyone follow the same rules.

Edit: The new official faction rework is REALLY positive, I like it a lot. It's a huge step in the right direction for disco, people are buzzing over the good changes.

>Release a reworked OF system that's technically been in the making for years
>Make decision to ignore last activity check to allow more factions the chance to engage with it
>Accused of bias presumably because one formerly stripped faction belongs to a dev

How do you manage to come to this conclusion? Like I'm genuinely asking how providing a benefit to half a dozen factions equates to bias.

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[Chenzo-]

After discussion, it has been decided that all factions stripped and warned in the 4th quarter of 2025 will be reverted one step towards good standing - Warned factions return to full good standing and stripped factions are restored to a warned status.

Why?

Let's make this fair then- let's revert every faction which was lost in the past 12 months.

Otherwise, this is just another reminder to the community of what such great efforts certain staff will go to to protect their buddies instead of making everyone follow the same rules.

Edit: The new official faction rework is REALLY positive, I like it a lot. It's a huge step in the right direction for disco, people are buzzing over the good changes.

>Release a reworked OF system that's technically been in the making for years
>Make decision to ignore last activity check to allow more factions the chance to engage with it
>Accused of bias presumably because one formerly stripped faction belongs to a dev

How do you manage to come to this conclusion? Like I'm genuinely asking how providing a benefit to half a dozen factions equates to bias.

Civil Defence Initiative CDI) 6:45:00 - Dev faction
The Order Order| 2d 07:52:30
Gas Miners Guild GMG| 5:50:30 - Mep immune to server rules faction
Liberty Navy First Fleet [LN] 20:40:00 - Haste dev faction
True Sons of Kusari [TSK] 2d 00:12:00


Three of the five.

Apart from that, the state of decay affects all factions who have given up over time due to being allowed zero input on how their faction story/system etc goes.

The only fair way is to reinstate all of the factions over a long time period(Suggested 12 months) or none of them.

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[Loken]

>Release a reworked OF system that's technically been in the making for years
>Make decision to ignore last activity check to allow more factions the chance to engage with it
>Accused of bias presumably because one formerly stripped faction belongs to a dev

How do you manage to come to this conclusion? Like I'm genuinely asking how providing a benefit to half a dozen factions equates to bias.

Because he has a vendetta against the leader of one of the factions even though they haven't even played the game regularly for literally years.

Many such cases.

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[jammi]

As a declaration of interest, I run the CDI who've had their status restored by this decision. I abstained from the staff vote and didn't participate in the discussion.

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@Kherty - I just want to briefly touch on two points you've raised (I'll leave the rest to any other staff who want to respond).

The "rework" wants to add new and intensified obligations that are procedural and coercive in nature, by way of mandatory individual activity minimum, essentially forcing virtually every player, quarterly audits, expanded reporting requirements, as well as formalized compliance checks. These obligations are enforced onto individual members as a condition of legitimacy for the OFs.

The rework reduces the required activity level from 3 days a quarter to 2 days. The previous system also required 3 active members at minimum. All the current wording does is explicitly define what counts as an active member, which previously was entirely undefined (and frankly unenforced). An official faction that cannot muster at least 3 players logging 1 hour a month shouldn't be an official faction. The idea that this approach places an oppressive burden on each individual member of the faction is frankly ridiculous.

There's also a process issue that cannot be ignored. Declaring that the rework "will remain in force", while inviting feedback is not consultation. Consultation implies that affected people have an opportunity to influence and discuss whether and how a system, rework, etc is adopted, not merely how it's adjusted after implementation. On changes this structural, the absence of prior, formal consultation with Official Factions (and players in general) is precisely what makes the measures feel coercive rather than collaborative.

The official faction rework went through a large public consultation over a year ago. There was also a lot of feedback gathered from the recent discussions from the Q4 activity check. The launch of the rework explicitly is not a consultation, it is the beginning of the new system. Feedback will guide how that functions moving forward, but we're not further delaying desperately needed structural changes even longer. This isn't the British government trying to build national infrastructure.

Factions that see this as coercive pressure are entitled to hold those views, but there are also responsibilities expected of them if they do want to retain the title without it being an entirely meaningless and hollow designator. Staff fundamentally want to turn this community around and reverse the years-long decline and death of standards. Adopting official factions as the standard bearers of the change we want to see seems like a reasonable approach.

I also appreciate that you don't think the current system is assessing for the characteristics we say we want, however the assessments are qualitative rather than checkbox. There's a bullet point list of things that we'd see as positive indicators and negative indicators that will guide staff decisions. If all we can see is clock punching, and the faction cannot scrape together any examples of roleplay they're cultivating, that group probably also shouldn't be an official faction.

If groups feel that this is an onerous burden and they're not receiving any tangible benefits from being an official faction, they're not obliged to keep being one.

Liberty Navy First Fleet [LN] 20:40:00 - Haste dev faction

lmao?

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[Luke.]

After discussion, it has been decided that all factions stripped and warned in the 4th quarter of 2025 will be reverted one step towards good standing - Warned factions return to full good standing and stripped factions are restored to a warned status.

Why?

Let's make this fair then- let's revert every faction which was lost in the past 12 months.

Otherwise, this is just another reminder to the community of what such great efforts certain staff will go to to protect their buddies instead of making everyone follow the same rules.

Edit: The new official faction rework is REALLY positive, I like it a lot. It's a huge step in the right direction for disco, people are buzzing over the good changes.

>Release a reworked OF system that's technically been in the making for years
>Make decision to ignore last activity check to allow more factions the chance to engage with it
>Accused of bias presumably because one formerly stripped faction belongs to a dev

How do you manage to come to this conclusion? Like I'm genuinely asking how providing a benefit to half a dozen factions equates to bias.

Civil Defence Initiative CDI) 6:45:00 - Dev faction
The Order Order| 2d 07:52:30
Gas Miners Guild GMG| 5:50:30 - Mep immune to server rules faction
Liberty Navy First Fleet [LN] 20:40:00 - Haste dev faction
True Sons of Kusari [TSK] 2d 00:12:00


Three of the five.

Apart from that, the state of decay affects all factions who have given up over time due to being allowed zero input on how their faction story/system etc goes.

The only fair way is to reinstate all of the factions over a long time period(Suggested 12 months) or none of them.

You can present your argument without needless and completely unfounded accusations, Chenzo.

If such ideals really existed, they'd have not been stripped of status in the first place. Forgive us for giving benefit-of-the-doubt in aid of encouraging people to play under a new system.

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[Sayne]

After discussion, it has been decided that all factions stripped and warned in the 4th quarter of 2025 will be reverted one step towards good standing - Warned factions return to full good standing and stripped factions are restored to a warned status.

Why?

Let's make this fair then- let's revert every faction which was lost in the past 12 months.

Otherwise, this is just another reminder to the community of what such great efforts certain staff will go to to protect their buddies instead of making everyone follow the same rules.

Edit: The new official faction rework is REALLY positive, I like it a lot. It's a huge step in the right direction for disco, people are buzzing over the good changes.

>Release a reworked OF system that's technically been in the making for years
>Make decision to ignore last activity check to allow more factions the chance to engage with it
>Accused of bias presumably because one formerly stripped faction belongs to a dev

How do you manage to come to this conclusion? Like I'm genuinely asking how providing a benefit to half a dozen factions equates to bias.

Civil Defence Initiative CDI) 6:45:00 - Dev faction
The Order Order| 2d 07:52:30
Gas Miners Guild GMG| 5:50:30 - Mep immune to server rules faction
Liberty Navy First Fleet [LN] 20:40:00 - Haste dev faction
True Sons of Kusari [TSK] 2d 00:12:00


Three of the five.

Apart from that, the state of decay affects all factions who have given up over time due to being allowed zero input on how their faction story/system etc goes.

The only fair way is to reinstate all of the factions over a long time period(Suggested 12 months) or none of them.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

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[Maik]

After discussion, it has been decided that all factions stripped and warned in the 4th quarter of 2025 will be reverted one step towards good standing - Warned factions return to full good standing and stripped factions are restored to a warned status.

Why?

Let's make this fair then- let's revert every faction which was lost in the past 12 months.

Otherwise, this is just another reminder to the community of what such great efforts certain staff will go to to protect their buddies instead of making everyone follow the same rules.

Edit: The new official faction rework is REALLY positive, I like it a lot. It's a huge step in the right direction for disco, people are buzzing over the good changes.

>Release a reworked OF system that's technically been in the making for years
>Make decision to ignore last activity check to allow more factions the chance to engage with it
>Accused of bias presumably because one formerly stripped faction belongs to a dev

How do you manage to come to this conclusion? Like I'm genuinely asking how providing a benefit to half a dozen factions equates to bias.

Civil Defence Initiative CDI) 6:45:00 - Dev faction
The Order Order| 2d 07:52:30
Gas Miners Guild GMG| 5:50:30 - Mep immune to server rules faction
Liberty Navy First Fleet [LN] 20:40:00 - Haste dev faction
True Sons of Kusari [TSK] 2d 00:12:00


Three of the five.

Apart from that, the state of decay affects all factions who have given up over time due to being allowed zero input on how their faction story/system etc goes.

The only fair way is to reinstate all of the factions over a long time period(Suggested 12 months) or none of them.

Speaking of [LN]

May I know as [LN] member, since what [LN] is an Haste dev faction lol

Stop talking nonsense, Chenzo, you're causing nothing but negativity with this. The factions deservedly lost their status; they were given a second chance. If they don't live up to expectations, the staff will finally strip them of that status.

It's so simple and obvious that I sincerely don't understand what's going on in the heads of those who adhere to all these spooky-spooky conspiracy theories.

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[Arbs]

Haste dev faction

LOL

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[Loken]

It's so simple and obvious that I sincerely don't understand what's going on in the heads of those who adhere to all these spooky-spooky conspiracy theories.

It's the same as always. This place is full of vindictive people who take their made-up space stories far too seriously and spend a lot of time driving away other players they see as a threat, and inventing conspiracies to justify why they hate them.

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[St.Denis]

I could see an argument for 2 of the 5 OFs, who lost OF status, to keep it for now (new requirement being 2 days a quarter), but the rest weren't even close to that 48 hour requirement.

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