Player Groups and Minor Factions - Submission Form and Information

[Talonian]

Hi Brett,

I applied for a minor faction a few months ago and wondered if you could tell me the Status of Talonian's wings of Jonai.

Kind Regards,

CMDR Talonian

[Tykune]

Verucas Illusions here and we were looking for an update regarding our group and minor faction, or a way to look up and see if the group or faction is in game.

[Vandrus]

Any news? My minor faction is waiting to be implemented too...

[Esso]

Any news? My minor faction is waiting to be implemented too...

lol

[Brett C]

Hi all, am aware that there's minor factions that have had issues on influence, control, etc due to the 2.3 update. We've been monitoring and fixing the issues as they arise.

Additionally, numerous player minor factions did not make it in for the 2.3 update. Upfront, I would like to apologize for this. There is an ongoing check on who is and who is not in the game at this moment and if things are in proper sync from our sheet to the game. Additionally (x2!), please note that description changes are baked directly into the client, not queried from the server. I've a large list of PMF's awaiting an update on a description update as well.


I am leaving the thread closed at this point in time so things can be posted in a somewhat more organized fashion from me and/or others here at Frontier. I've received more than 100 emails and PM's asking the status of X or Y player minor factions over the past week to now. Unfortunately, due to the mass of emails and PM's i've received and workload right now, I won't be able to answer said messages as timely as I'd like to.

[Brett C]

Working on getting things validated and imported this week. Deepest apologies on the delays with this process.

[Brett C]

List of rejections...

If your PMF is listed below, you will need to resubmit your PMF via the submissions form.
I will not accept edit requests via PM/email at this point in time.

Name of PMF	Reason for rejection
Carpathia mining association	System in use or reserved.
Dark Light Squadron	System in use or reserved.
Victor One	System in use or reserved.
empire of oblivion	Invalid Description.
Hungarian Pilot Syndicate	In use / Restricted system
Nothingness	Does not conform to Elite.
The Redemption	System in use or reserved.
Basilic Federal Corp	Not in English.
Viscount Squadron	All four requests rejected: Proper description required. You will not be considered for a PMF in Elite without properly filling out the fields.
Cult of Rah	System in use or reserved.
Sleeping Dawn	System in use or reserved.
Bad Dudes	Instant rejection: Invalid name. Does not conform to Elite.
Balion Mercenaries	Instant rejection: Restricted system. LHS 3447 is a restricted system.
15 lambda aurigae elite dangerous	System in use or restricted. Bad Faction Name, cannot contain the game name.
FoX-Ray	Dates indescription do not conform to Elite Lore.
Havocmkas Heros	Invalid description.
Moritasgus Imperial Trading	System in use or reserved.
Armata Brancaleone	Description text contains copyright and non-English.
StarTriton Syndicate	PMF name too similar to another PMF name - Possible secondary/dupe?
Tesla Corporation	Company names are not permitted as a minor faction name due to potential IP/copyright/usage violations.
Qainfederacy	Colonia system applications are not permitted via this submission system.
Deep Space Wanderers	System in use or reserved.

As a reminder, this is a partial list of rejections. More will follow when more processing is completed on the master sheet.

[Brett C]

Major series of batch-segments sent. Will have a list of additional rejections and so forth this week or next week. Unfortunately, this next list of rejections will end up being quite large I am afraid.


As always... a reminder! I will on the spot reject a PMF application due to any of the following issues...

• System locations that are consisting one or more of the following... lore important, permit restricted, starter zones/systems, important system(s) relating to an ongoing game event in the system or a nearby system, in use by another PMF.
• Faction names that are... inappropriate, not elite/lore related, harassing, TOS violating, spam, IP violations, too similar of a name to another PMF.
• Faction Descriptions that... make no sense, does not relate to your PMF, includes a website or email, incomplete, not-in-English.
• Player Group Name that is incorrect or is not added on the original submission form. If i cannot contact you due to any issues, i will remove the submission row from our sheet - i will not chase around to find contact details.

Additionally, Colonia region submissions for a minor faction are auto-rejected, see https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/co...on-initiative/ regarding Colonia stuff.

Lastly, I am also in the process of working on the update sheet. (The sheet that contains peoples update requests)

[Brett C]

Engineering is still processing the master sheet for addition to the game. I should have an update sometime next week. Thanks for your patience.

[Brett C]

Engineering is still working on minor factions. I won't be able to make changes/additions until they've finished processing the sheet.

As it stands right now, i'm trying my best to have hundreds of new PMF's added for the 2.3.x update series. So please, hold off on asking on if your minor faction is added or not. I don't have that updated data just yet!

[Brett C]

Engineering team has checked in another update to the sheet this morning. Little past the halfway mark now.

I should have an updated list quite soon on rejections / declined minor faction applications.