How do you officially adopt and gain ownership of an abandoned play minor faction (PMF)?
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Players don't "own" minor factions, they simply petition for their creation and have a bit of a say in the faction's backstory, superpower affiliation and government type. The moment a PMF gets officially added, the player group and the minor faction become completely separate entities - one a collection of like-minded players and the other a completely unaffiliated minor faction that simply shares a name. Adopt it just like you would any other faction, regardless of what any other player might wish.
How does that work? Do the 'owners' actually have any in-game effects beyond flying missions/selling data/trading/bounties/etc to change system Influence? I thought 'ownership' was just for roleplay purposes as the BGS regulates expansion/retreats and the like depending on player actions in the system.
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Ramirez just confirmed what I suspected, thanks!
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Ramirez just confirmed what I suspected, thanks!
Players do 'own' minor factions. For instance, say I get a faction created and I notice an error in the description then I'm teh one who Fdev listen to re the change. You could not for example request Fdev t change the description of someoneelse's PMF because you do not 'own' it.
A PMF that hasn't seen concerted and focussed action in its support for a certain amount of time should be removed, IMO.
It will be an interesting discussion to determine the criteria, but I don't see a coherent argument against it.
It will be an interesting discussion to determine the criteria, but I don't see a coherent argument against it.
I concur. People drop games, but elite is also a game that people come back to one day. If stale groups were removed would it affect the expansion prospects of other active player supported factions?
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Just remove the arbitrary limitation that factions cant be in retreat if its their last system for player factions. Done.
I totally agree with this.
Goose4291
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I personally would like to see this extended to all factions.
Descriptions? Where do you see PMF's descriptions? In game somewhere? I have one and submitted a description but have never seen it written anywhere in game
Descriptions? Where do you see PMF's descriptions? In game somewhere? I have one and submitted a description but have never seen it written anywhere in game
When you select them on the galmap. Many lore systems (sol, lave etc) have descriptions, and so do many starting systems of player factions.
I think I always just looked in the mission board when having my faction selected, gonna have to check the galmap when I get home, thanks!
As far as I know, and I don't think this has changed since, Fdev aren't allowing any changes to Player Named Factions after they've been added to the game.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Information?p=5823499&viewfull=1#post5823499
Once a Player Named Faction has been added it's on its own, the same as any other Faction in the game.
You could adopt any player faction...just start running missions for that faction.
'Ownership' will not be given over....unless you contact the old player group and have them work with FDev to put you in charge of the faction. Basically, in our faction there are 3 people that have some say over who is able to work with FDev on faction requests. This is part of setting up the group. If person 1 decides to quit the game, then through E: D contacts, we can remove that person from the contact list...and add a new person if we desire.
'Ownership' will not be given over....unless you contact the old player group and have them work with FDev to put you in charge of the faction. Basically, in our faction there are 3 people that have some say over who is able to work with FDev on faction requests. This is part of setting up the group. If person 1 decides to quit the game, then through E: D contacts, we can remove that person from the contact list...and add a new person if we desire.
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Start by calling it "we", or "my faction, xxx".
Work it, and give updates on it.
Put out a recruitment thread in Groups.
Every time someone asks a question about it, fire off a quick answer before anyone else can respond.
Just completely dominate the conversation and make people believe you're the king.
Work it, and give updates on it.
Put out a recruitment thread in Groups.
Every time someone asks a question about it, fire off a quick answer before anyone else can respond.
Just completely dominate the conversation and make people believe you're the king.