Yep, we did it again: more investments in the form of new members slots. We offer currently a home for 25 members, of which at the time of this posting 21 are occupied. Great times, and i think with 25 permanent members we will have reached the final members count. Not trying to get the biggest faction, but the best. Yes, the best. Maybe not in terms of XP or what, but in terms of overall game experience. We will stay the tight group of players we are now, focussing not only on the sheer numbers of the game, but on the fun aspects. For some its leveling, for some its communication. For all its Red Cell!
And we have started another recruiting drive for players without faction at the moment. We don't do poaching. Having reached 21/25 players we will now calm down on recruiting and see what the new initiates are about, who will stay and who has to go.
Furthermore, with the enabling of tagging we will most probably change our ranking system. Basically it will stay the same with Initiates-Members-Agents but tweaked a little bit behind the curtains.

 

Yes, now we also have item tagging! Quite expensive, but i hope its worth the investment in further smoothing our handling of fluxed gear. And since we are at this topic, namely upgrading, we also installed a Faction Advisor. This tool offers the ability to have closer look at the financial situation of the alliance without the need of torturing googlespreadsheet or excel like hell ;).
Yep, quite expensive, especially since item tagging only makes really sense when you have a Faction Registrar - so this one had also be installed, L2 of course (doesnt make it cheaper...). And a new slot for a structure had also to be installed for exactly that reason...

Speaking about manuals: it may obvious for the old FS player how tagging works and so on, but did HCS also think about all the new players with no existing FS experiance? I want to have at least a small manual which covers the basic things like this. Don't get me wrong, i don't want to have everything about this game revealed (I hate spoilers), like mechanisms and so on, but playing infos.