The Factions and Player Groups are separated entities so support those groups with in game functionalities.

[Xender]

The Factions and Player Groups are separated entities so support those groups with in game functionalities.

I think there a big hole in Elite universe, the game really need kind of support for Players Groups aka Guild or Clans. I know that many extremely conservative players of Elite are concerned about this. To make you feel safe and sound both systems (Player Groups and NPC Factions) should be separated.

Players groups should be able to be hostile to each other, to own mega ship and participate in other typical group activities (PVE and PVP). Still BGS will work in the same way as it was working before addition of player groups support.
There wont be any direct ties between Player groups and BGS.

Sound it acceptable to you, group haters? It wont affect you...

 

[Lucius-Darcia]

Bump!
Oh and please Frontier....playerfactions should have an influence gain increase of 100% related to usual npc factions. That would make me happy

 

[Xender]

Well... Player Groups aka Guild shouldn't have any direct influence on BGS. It should be different kind of entity.

Honestly in the game there is no difference between core NPC factions and those NPC faction which have names selected by players.