Great initiative. You’ll likely see us there shortly.
However, I have to say this about Inara. Inara is perfectly sufficient for display of information. The Overview and Documents pages of any faction is not only not subject to a character limit, but is fully customizable in format. It’s also able to be public information. People just don’t allow themselves to do so.
Artie has done a great job in being able to provide a good editor for folks to edit those documents. But you can do so much more in a wiki.
For the Order of Enblackenment page, not only do we have the regular info boxes that contain peripheral information and links out, but we have a timeline of our BGS updated when we achieve something of significance.
We've got links to all the systems we control or have a presence in and in each of them we list out the significance of each system to us.
Which was our first expansion, which was the second, which was the third... Why was this system a godsend to us given it has a signifcantly lower population than our home system? (I've actually got to add that info)
We can show this history, lore and stories on a system page by system page base or even a station by station basis. It's not something Inara's wing's overview and documents page is made for.
Fantastic job, Olivia! Excellent idea.
One question:
AEDC has one recognized PMF (Wolf 406 Transport & Co*), but supports as a group 2 others, one of which was involved in a major player battle and the current ruler of Ross 128. We additionally support other factions, run by individual diplomats. The four biggest factions AEDC or individual diplomats support control 30, 21, 19 and 17 systems, respectively, and are present in 31, 24, 26, and 25 systems. Some are marked as PMFs in eddb.io, but only W406 T&Co is recognized by FD as such.
Would you restrict us to only W406 T & Co, or would you allow us to add the others, too? All of these are actively player supported. They're just not recognized officially as PMFs.
* Yes, our PMF has a procedural name, because we supported it way before such a thing as PMFs existed. All the factions we support have procedural names.
If it's recognized by Eddb.io, I'll recognize it. I'm also working on an Alliance template page for faction groups like the border coalition who might like to talk about their thing. There might be something in having an alliance page.
I think there's a case to be made for the 4 biggest factions that AEDC supports. You're not the only one who does something similiar. The communists have a similar set up.
Nothing's set in stone, Send me a DM on Discord and we can talk more. or let us know here who those factions are.^^
As an addendum to all folks reading this knowledgeable in BGS
This page could use your eye on editing and adding information on it.
http://elite-factions.wikia.com/wiki/Background_Simulation
I've more or less just copied it from the Wolves of Jonai.
If you folks can help make it more neutral and informative. and perhaps see if certain things might work better on a separate page. go for it! I'll have a look at what's been done and make sure it's neat! ^^
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