02-14-2020, 10:51 AM
(02-14-2020, 05:27 AM)Davin Wrote: Question: If clans rarely want to remain Independent (as I thought I was being told) because there's no motivation for it, then why give an all-around signing bonus to effectively everyone? If everyone gets a bonus or everyone doesn't get a bonus, doesn't that make it pretty much the same either way?
I see your point, the sign-on bonus would encourage factional play -- which is the heart of the game. It would not be the same game if everyone was Independent and no one declared for a faction. It might also change things if some factions added additional bonuses out of their dispensation budgets to get more people to sign up for their factions -- creating a "competition" of sorts. This would also cut back on conflicts -- players playing in competing factions.