Factions Staying In The Now

[Miss Blonde]

Let's be honest with each other here, we've all been in factions that we loved at first then got bored with and promptly died afterwards. So let's talk about that a little bit and how factions really work here on Star Wars Chaos. First off factions can be a great way to tell stories, write with your friends, make little clubs, there's no limit to what factions are good for. They are fun and a great way to change up the norm with a character, but I look at factions both major and minor as jobs and food. I'll go over that as soon as I explain the ups and downs of both major and minor factions.

Let's take a look at arguably the best form of faction. The minor faction. Minor factions you have so much more flexibility with, you may not be able to do that large invasion scale attacks with hundreds of star destroyers but you can certainly tell a higher quality story because you have way less variables to deal with. But the problem with minor factions is the struggle to stay relevant when chaos moves super fast. Now I've seen a lot of great minor factions go under because of the main thing that normally kills them. Major factions.

Chaos primarily is focused around what's going on between major factions. Don't get me wrong if you want to privately RP with a few bros that's great and that is certainly a good option that I highly recommend. But for the most part a strong majority of writers are tied up into major factions. Now a big problem with majors is the huge amount of drama that comes with them. Instead of that small niche of people you know in a minor faction instead you have various people from all walks of life slamming into one big group. You get people you are insensitive jerks, you get oversensitive people who can't take a joke, and a boat load more. All of these people with different ideas and opinions clash and creates a lot of friction. This can happen in minor factions as well but it's not guaranteed. In a major faction I can 100% guarantee that something like a fight or drama will happen. But the upside of major factions is your group now plays a key role in what happens in the galaxy and shaping it on a larger scale. You get those epic yet most of the time drama filled invasions. There have been good ones believe it or not and when an invasion is pulled off right it's awesome! Major factions can be fun but they can also be super draining to muse and wanting to write, but at times can be worth it to see the work of lots of people coming together come to life.

But back to what I was saying about factions being like food and jobs. And I do mean jobs, not a career. Do you really want to be working the same job for over two or three years? In my personal opinion no not really, you always want to move on to that next adventure rather than feel stuck. And that's the thing about factions, after being there for so long there's nothing wrong with moving a character out to go to the next adventure. Just do if tastefully, cause we've all been there. And my next point, like food, factions have expiration dates. There's nothing wrong with it, they just die. Go inactive as people move on to the next adventure. And let me ask you something, do you get sad or upset when your milk spoils? No you don't. I know there's a difference between milk and something you created but try to look at it like it was a carton of milk, everything expires eventually. So don't look at it like a bad thing, even one day this board will be a ghost town and that's just the natural order of things.

So when our faction expires it's not a bad thing, it's just the natural order of things. You can either fight to keep it alive and going and that's all good or you can just bail and go on to the next project, and there's nothing wrong with that. But I want to know what you guys think? Do you think factions are a lot like this or do you view them as something else entirely?

 

[Lysle of the Hydian Way]

*Whispers quietly*
"Long Live Neos City"