I just want to make a discussion about how factions are doing today. One reason is, I've seen many of my own faction mates leave and other friends to from there factions/crews. How "big" are the factions today? I mean, before we had factions with at least 20-30 active members or more. Not sure how many there are of them left today.
I just want to post my concern on this matter, as I see more and more leaving the game for the reasons we all have heard and discussed before (and still do). Looking at the population on Syntax as a example, I believe most zion's/epn, machines and mervs could form one faction each from the three organizations. This is bad. I could be wrong in the numbers of the population, but when you log in, you really don't see any of the huge factions around, you see 5 people max.
Looking at the next Live Event whenever it comes, I think most of the players will use there alt's to be a part of it. That also means in my opinion, that the organizations is loosing there real background of why you should be a Machine, Merovingian or a Zion or does that not concern you?
So here is what I want to ask;
MindsweepX
My faction is pretty much a 2-4 man faction now. Don't plan on merging, don't plan on disabandoning though Lt0Brien is still recruiting for us.
Winter Brood is still going, although we're down to just a small handfull playing (depends on what time of year and what is happening inside), I would say anywhere from 4 to 8 of us regularly, up to 15 occasionally. We're still here, been a faction since before Beta, and will probably still be here when the Matrix shuts down.
If every member from the Brood was to come back, umm, there would be over 150, if that tells you anything. Alot of us have moved to other games, or Real Life has come to bite us in the butt.
The Brood is on Syntax as well, where the server population flexes alot, but we've been getting some new players as well (alot has to do with RejectKnowledge recruiting, and a strong backbone within the faction to act as a family)
As for the question of if we have disbanded, We did disband for a whole 2 minutes one night, just to fix issues within the ranks.
We did absorb a faction a couple of years ago, but we didn't get many members from it, and none of them are active anymore.
Does this say anything about the way things are going for the Brood?
Good questions. I've seen many of the same things.What is you'r current situation of your faction?It certainly could be bigger, but we've actually picked up handful of new recruits lately. At our faction's population peak(s), we'd have maybe 13 to 15 members online fairly regularly. Right now, unless there's an event or something else going on there's usually only a few of us around but I'd say we hit about 10 max at any given time. If all our active members were on at once though we'd still be pretty sizable. Have you merged with another faction?Not any time recently. We've been around for quite a while now and our opinions and methods are rather distinct, so I can't see this happening in the near future.Did your faction disband in the past 2 month?Nope. The only time we ever disbanded was way way back when to solve an issue with an absentee rank 1 captain.What the status on your server with factions?I'm on Syntax as well, and I've noticed much of the same, though it has taken a turn for the better lately. Less factions, more names staying with the same faction for more than a few days, etc.
Personally I prefer being part of smaller factions, but I understand the point being made. When an entire org on a server is as big as one of the factions that were around in the past it isn't a great sign.
Our distrust is very expensive.
What is you'r current situation of your faction?Wow. Just did a count of people that are active in The Trust, and we have about 25 members that jack in on a regular basis. Granted, we're never all on at the same time. I'd say at any given moment, we have about 4-10 members online. We've been getting some new blood into the faction lately, mostly brand new players to the game. Most of our time is spent helping our newer 50s get equipped, doing the new content, helping level our lower level members, and most importantly... playing out major RP stories and running in-faction events.Have you merged with another faction?We haven't merged with anybody. The Devoted disbanded and formed a crew, then Deffdog and his guys joined as one crew.Did your faction disband in the past 2 month?Nope. We've been doing well. We're one of the only heavy RP Zion factions on Recursion.What the status on your server with factions?It seems like there's just a few large factions, and then a smattering of smaller factions. Zion has the most, there are only three Merv factions I can think of (including Exemplar Triune), and only two Machine factions (Unleashed and Exemplar Triune's Machine faction). Population has seemed to have increased in the past month, though... at least, I'm running into a lot of new players.
What is you'r current situation of your faction?We're a bit on the small side, but we have about ten people who jack in on a regular to semi-regular basis. I'd like to recruite a few more people, but since we're an RP faction, good Merv RPers are hard to come by, plus we have fairly strong standards of conduct.Have you merged with another faction?Nope, not yet. There's one small one I've been wanting to have merge with us, but since they run things differently than we do, it wouldn't work well.Did your faction disband in the past 2 month?Not in the past two months, though we did have to disband and regroup when the "mutiny bug" hit our then-leader's ship about six or seven months ago, but I don't think that countsWhat the status on your server with factions?I'd put us as one of the smaller factions, but we kind of like it that way: it gives you a more intimate, homey feeling, more of a sense of family, and that's what we're all about.
The Daniel Institute of Dream Interpretation has always been small. When we formed it, we basically wanted a full mission team. We have 4 active members and hook up with Pluribus Neo a lot. No disbansion in sight. We won't merge with any other factions in the forseable future. We're pretty selective.
As far as Recursion as a whole, I think we all know each other pretty well. I used to avoid Mara C like the plague, now it's a meeting spot to hook up with all orgs for quests.
What is your current situation of your faction?
Priorato de Sión has had a few members, I believe you guys know why. We are here to help people who speak spanish and that's a minority, since english is not our mother tonge we have some trouble following the story and chilling with the rest of the factions without get discriminated. Still we are fine with the current 7 or 8 PDS. We're always ready to fight and help the hispanic newbies around there.Have you merged with another faction?We begun since BETA. we took some rest on S.O.T.I. but that was just for about a month, and long time ago too.Did your faction disband in the past 2 month?Not at allWhat the status on your server with factions?In Vector we're well known because of our uniqueness. There's always some moron mocking about our language and nationallity but that's ok. We're just as good as you all and we are proud of being this wonderful minority.
What is you'r current situation of your faction?De Novo's still a small faction, with 3 consistently active members (myself, gracewing, and DrHoliday), plus alts and some inactives.Have you merged with another faction?I had flirted with the idea of merging with Chariots of Fire last year, but decided to start anew.Did your faction disband in the past 2 month?No, but The GoodFellas (former faction) pretty much disbanded after I left.What the status on your server with factions?Being Syntax I do see people running around. The most visible factions I've seen as of late have been SOCA, Somnulence (spelling?), and The Black Code. There are others, but I'm pretty sleepy.
The problem is, without getting into number specifics, is that our faction, Les Enfants Terribles; has been here since beta, we believe the oldest continuous Merovingian faction on Vector if not MxO. However with the New Approach our raison d'etre has been made somewhat irrelevant. Our numbers have definately suffered because of it. Because the new system is farming-based rather than storyline-based, my main concern has to do with the Borg effect upon small, elite factions. If you need teams to farm stuff to simply access storyline content, it helps to actually have people in your faction online in any given time...the mega factions don't have this problem so I am concerned that just to access content the pressure will be high to join whatever Borg faction is on your org on your server. (Not to knock any faction here....just speaking in generalities).
How many factions recruit brand new players into the game? im a noob for instance, learning extremely fast, upto level 6 first night playing and just started working for merv, however my perception so far is when you see the factions running round, because your such a low level, typically a noob reputation gets cast upon you and players see you as thus, therefore not good enough for them etc, and you have to try and fidn another active level 6 to run around with to not feel bored within the game, as exciting as it is, it can get boring beating up the 500th gang member in a back alley all alone knowing youve got 100,000 EXP to go till level 7 and you need to be level 20 before people take you seriously and stop asking you for fights at hardlines, players may quit early in the game for lack of new players being taken in by factions unless theyre level whatever and demmed good enough
Omega Syndicates pretty much a 4/5 person thing at this stage. Recruitments still open and whatnot, we just get no applicants. Vicious circle and all that I spose.
ZarlakQUAM wrote:
Thats a common misconception, MxO's factions generally welcome new players and whatnot into their ranks. What can i say? We like helping people =P
