Poll - When a clan joins a faction should they get a signing bonus?

[Davin]

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.

I'm not sure we're speaking the same language here.  I presume that factional play is already of enough benefit that everyone will want to join one anyway.  Why give everyone the same bonus for doing something they're going to do anyway?  To accomplish that, why not just give all starting clans more resources to begin with, since that's what you're effectively doing anyway?  What's the point of the bonus?

I don't much like the idea of using dispensation budgets to provide a faction-specific signing bonus either.  Players needn't be encouraged to sign up for a faction and I don't like the idea of joining just because of bonuses without regard to the players wanting to play for purpose/goals of the faction.  That leads to pure "financial" competition and getting members who don't really want to promote your efforts.