This could be an unneeded layer of bureaucracy that'll end up bogging things down more than it solves, but.

I find that persistently faction management teams become slow, burdensome or actively unaware of what the other is doing and make almost poisonous decisions as a result. I propose the creation of a new overarching "Faction Management" team, comprised of people with a proven track record of being involved in both sides of roleplay. They'd act like judges in a court, while most things should still be handled internally, they offer a higher degree of appeal for things like faction removal, for example. The faction's own management (Legal or Illegal) may be biased against the player appealing as it is 'their own faction type'. LFM & IFM should actively advocate and encourage their faction's requests, this does not always mean they'd be right in doing so.

An example of where FM would be involved. IFM has approved an arson request against a local business who is purely legal. Given the attack is 'cross faction-type' it is forwarded to FM for final approval. FM reviews it and finds that the escalation is poor and one-sided, returning the result and the attack is never performed.

Another example! FM collects feedback from both factions regarding a new clothing update and what changes they might see valuable. FM does their very best to sort out a fair result for both parties and brings that to the development team.

Dunno, just spitballing.

Status: Declined

Hi confusiontrain,

Thank you for taking the time to suggest "A new way of faction management.". The development team has looked at it carefully and we have decided not to take it forward.

Why: We have no intentions of changing our current structure.

This is no reflection on the effort you put in, and we would like to keep hearing your ideas. If you can see a way to adapt this one, you are welcome to post a new suggestion.

MelonDisrupt, Roleplay Project Development team