I belong to a player group with an in game minor faction ("6th Interstellar Corps"). A little while back Frontier ran the Dangerous Games and (I didn't realise this at the time but) in that event factions taking part were awarded their own logo as a decal, to all members who took part in the community goals involved. From a player group and faction point of view, this is simply amazing. This one minor detail would make our members enormously happy.
So, I would really love to see my faction logo on my ships, but obviously this is a lot of work, especially as every faction will be clamouring for this all at once.
I propose that a way Frontier could achieve this while giving them the time/space to complete the work required for each logo (assuming of there is room in the schedule at all) is... Frontier produce/maintain a list, internally, of player factions and the # of systems they control (as in, are controlling faction) and once a fortnight or once a month Frontier take the top faction on that list, contact them, and assuming the faction is interested creates a CG for them in their home system. The reward for participation will be the new faction decal and some amount of CR based on the tiers unlocked. Once a faction has a decal, they are removed from the list.
I would prefer not to restrict decal attainment to achieving a certain tier in the CG, or to achieving top 50% etc because I would not like to disadvantage the members of a faction who might not get online as often. I would also prefer if the community goal would run for the full week or so and not stop early. Essentially I want to be as inclusive as possible about this, as this is the whole point to being in a faction or part of a group.
I am hoping this will encourage more players to actually look for a group/faction to join, and create a more cohesive community. Of course, it might also create in-group/out-group divides and more conflict. Either way, it'll spice things up.
Edit: One assumption I made which I forgot to detail. I presume the groups/factions themselves will supply the logo, or at least a basis for the logo which Frontier might then have to tweak for various reasons to make it work. Frontier could supply guidelines to work from. All of this will cut down the resources Frontier need to invest to get this working.
Edit2: One of the bigger costs I have overlooked is the cost of getting logos pushed out to clients. Either a new system needs to be implemented to do this on the fly (loads of work) or logos would only appear with client updates. The latter is presumably less work but means factions would have to wait for patches/updates, and/or more frequent patches/updates would occur.
So, I would really love to see my faction logo on my ships, but obviously this is a lot of work, especially as every faction will be clamouring for this all at once.
I propose that a way Frontier could achieve this while giving them the time/space to complete the work required for each logo (assuming of there is room in the schedule at all) is... Frontier produce/maintain a list, internally, of player factions and the # of systems they control (as in, are controlling faction) and once a fortnight or once a month Frontier take the top faction on that list, contact them, and assuming the faction is interested creates a CG for them in their home system. The reward for participation will be the new faction decal and some amount of CR based on the tiers unlocked. Once a faction has a decal, they are removed from the list.
I would prefer not to restrict decal attainment to achieving a certain tier in the CG, or to achieving top 50% etc because I would not like to disadvantage the members of a faction who might not get online as often. I would also prefer if the community goal would run for the full week or so and not stop early. Essentially I want to be as inclusive as possible about this, as this is the whole point to being in a faction or part of a group.
I am hoping this will encourage more players to actually look for a group/faction to join, and create a more cohesive community. Of course, it might also create in-group/out-group divides and more conflict. Either way, it'll spice things up.
Edit: One assumption I made which I forgot to detail. I presume the groups/factions themselves will supply the logo, or at least a basis for the logo which Frontier might then have to tweak for various reasons to make it work. Frontier could supply guidelines to work from. All of this will cut down the resources Frontier need to invest to get this working.
Edit2: One of the bigger costs I have overlooked is the cost of getting logos pushed out to clients. Either a new system needs to be implemented to do this on the fly (loads of work) or logos would only appear with client updates. The latter is presumably less work but means factions would have to wait for patches/updates, and/or more frequent patches/updates would occur.
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