This isn't just about Powerplay, so please don't file it under the Powerplay discussion thread. This is about the Alliance and its future in the game, not just in 1.3, but down the line.
Many of us with Alliance leanings have been waiting for a long time for our faction to exist in a meaningful sense. We have no story to develop, no ranks, no rewards for our loyalty, and from the way the Powerplay description was written, we have no Powers, either. Every day it seems like I'm looking at some thread asking if the Alliance will be wiped out by player actions. Systems are flipped away from us, and there is no response, not even any comment from Alliance leadership.
Our faction is an empty shell which does nothing, a punching bag for self-absorbed pirates to flaunt their power against.
Is this ever going to change? Is there a story in the works for the Alliance? Will Alliance events ever pop up on Galnet?
In short, is there any reason to play an Alliance-leaning Commander at all?
I've gone and bought a second account so that I can have an Imperial comander and actually feel like I'm participating on the galactic stage. Which is all well and fine, but I'd rather be doing these things on behalf of the Alliance... if only there was some indication that the Alliance even exists in anything but name.
All I want to know is this: Will our day will ever come, or am I waiting in vain? Because if it's the latter, I'm just going to focus on my Imperial.
Many of us with Alliance leanings have been waiting for a long time for our faction to exist in a meaningful sense. We have no story to develop, no ranks, no rewards for our loyalty, and from the way the Powerplay description was written, we have no Powers, either. Every day it seems like I'm looking at some thread asking if the Alliance will be wiped out by player actions. Systems are flipped away from us, and there is no response, not even any comment from Alliance leadership.
Our faction is an empty shell which does nothing, a punching bag for self-absorbed pirates to flaunt their power against.
Is this ever going to change? Is there a story in the works for the Alliance? Will Alliance events ever pop up on Galnet?
In short, is there any reason to play an Alliance-leaning Commander at all?
I've gone and bought a second account so that I can have an Imperial comander and actually feel like I'm participating on the galactic stage. Which is all well and fine, but I'd rather be doing these things on behalf of the Alliance... if only there was some indication that the Alliance even exists in anything but name.
All I want to know is this: Will our day will ever come, or am I waiting in vain? Because if it's the latter, I'm just going to focus on my Imperial.
