Factions and how to prevent abuse

[Davin]

Well, if you want to totally prohibit inimical factions, we can certainly do that.  I'd thought that you'd want to have some extra flexibility there and be able to play, at least at low levels, pretty much anywhere you wanted to.  In that way you can try out another faction to see how it works for you.

If you wanted to switch from one "side" to another "side", you'd have to completely drop all your positions just to try out the new spot to see if you like it.  That doesn't sound very player-friendly to me.