After listening to the community and with a lot of deliberation the Admin Team has finally finished the revised faction activity and creation systems. We have also been at work on a revision of official faction rules and rights, which will be published at a later date.
What has changed:
- The required amount of active, unique members has been reduced from 5 to 3. A member is considered active from the moment they have accumulated more than one hour of activity per month. Minimum global ingame activity required for the entire faction remains at 24 hours.
- The Hardship Program has been removed. Warnings are active for three months, 2 active warnings and official status is lost, pending discussion http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=138802.
- Groups wanting to become an Official Faction may now be considered for official status after 2 months, down from 3 months http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1746.
In addition we are introducing the Faction Status Report system into the requirements.
More paperwork you say. Well yes, but for a good reason.
Activity checks have always been a one-sided process. We are looking to change that with this system by allowing factions to show us and the community they are well alive and contributing to the game. This system also introduces your roleplay efforts in the activity equation and not just raw activity anymore. We hope this will shed some light on slightly more niche factions more active on the forums than ingame.
All in all, this will allow everyone a better chance to understand your faction. This form should not take more than 10 mins to fill and can be posted by either the faction leader or his/her second in command. Do not go overboard with it, keep it simple.
We need some help!
A little bonus we have been working on. Some factions out there are in need of new blood but making it known to the community tends to become a difficult process in our gargantuan forum. In order to make this process easy, the faction activity summary page has been updated to receive this little icon the administration team can place on any official faction:
Warned factions will automatically receive this icon.
That's all folks!
Any progress towards the activity tracking by ID/shipname so far?
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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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(02-01-2016, 12:14 AM)Findarato Veneanar Wrote: Yes, but... is official status different from being an official faction?
It is the same. Official status is what gives faction position of official faction. You get it, you are official faction. You lost it, you are not official faction anymore.
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