Bastard
The White Rose
I've sorta assumed there might be another box akin to new threads, articles, and trending implemented into the site specifically for faction ads and propaganda.
More updates to come on what we're doing with the Factions section.
Propaganda is meant to be in your face, if it's not, it isn't doing its job. Being in an underground fight club where you have to go find it isn't very helpful to it by design
Most on-site propaganda is from major factions, the same factions who already advertise via Discord. You may have one obscure faction article every two months or some number, which then gets pushed down by the big guys anyway. Don't get me wrong, the propaganda I've seen folks create is great, it's entertaining, but IC writings and OOC musings should take prominence in a place meant for, well, IC writings and OOC musings!
A place set aside just for people's faction images is fine. A sort of gallery for propaganda. Isn't that even more exciting, since you could compare propaganda from other factions all in one place?
Posting propaganda via the articles was a way for me to get people invested in what my faction was doing, especially since I was competing with a major faction and a Subfaction of a major faction. Yes, you could argue that posting would do that - since people here relish activity - but there's only so far that solo posting can take you in terms of growing a community.
I'm kinda saddened to see it be tossed to the wayside, rather than given its own tab - as per the new site update. But, as it gave me the desired result, in a way, so I won't be shedding any tears, lol.
Minor Factions have zero visibility compared to the in-your-face nature of Major Factions, and in my experience the only successfully large minor factions are the ones that are attached to a Major Faction (you know, Subfactions), or minor factions that are gearing up to go Major.
Personally, I don't really see it as a bad thing, other than it makes running a successful Minor faction.... extremely time consuming and hard to run. In comparison, once a Major Faction is successfully set up, it can almost run itself once enough people are involved. Until interest fades, or changes, and the leadership doesn't adapt to it or put in extra effort to reinvigorate or just accepts that it is time for it die.
The reason why Minor Factions don't get big like Major Factions is because Major Factions generally absorb the best leaders, leaving few and far between those exceptional minor factions with great leaders and a good following behind them.
Or maybe I'm totally wrong, and there are hidden minor factions as large as contemporary Major Factions I've never heard of.
I don't necessarily like it but i do agree with it.
Leave the Faction promotion for it's own area and blogs in their own area. I think the separation of the two could be good.
Tefka is there any way to create a kind of "Showboard" kind of like we had with Member of the Month? Maybe it can rotate Faction Advert/propaganda pics? Kind of like a propaganda newsfeed? Each month a major faction can submit a propaganda pic or snippet to showcase there?
Just a thought.