What I see when I look at the list below is numerous players, who each have founded their own faction over the last several months. I see a lot of PvE fun, and clearly some fun role-play stuff. I also see these players, plus their member friends, who when combined all together could form a good-sized PvP team. With training, a team worthy of Town Control victories.
Please consider the list of newly-formed factions. I'd love to know the current status of each of these:
20 Dec 2014: The Four Horseman, PhatDog
14 Dec 2014: Reilly's Rangers, Reilly
?? Sep? 2014: Young Rugged Sprits, Wanderer
?? Aug? 2014: Bloody Dooms, Blix acting functional leader
05 Aug 2014: Shotgun Blast Gang, Swisher OF 300
22 July 2014: Barracudas, General Oliver (on TeamSpeak! Hurray!)
21 July 2014: The Machine Cult, Macaroth
27 June 2014: Poor Mongols
23 June 2014: Children of Gear, RunningCrane and Daemyn Sterk
22 June 2014: Wasteland Storms, Piotreq
15 May 2014: The Gloomy Amazons
02 May 2014: The Wasteland Sharpshooters, mrkingcasey
30 Apr 2014: The Metal Thugs, dskpnk
16 Apr 2014: B.E.T.A, BETA HQ
09 Apr 2014: Staan Protects, Soyu3nik
05 Apr 2014: Nuka Rangers, ??
04 Apr 2014: Black Steel Brotherhood, Houruck
03 Apr 2014: The Shadows Hunters, Cooper
02 Apr 2014: The Black Hearts, Corax, remek, Darksider, Kudlaty
31 Mar 2014: The Charlemagnes, [names needed]
09 Mar 2014: -name to be determined-, Wayas2, Loowoo, Long John
01 Mar 2014: Clear Skies, Raiden
01 Mar 2014: The Free Cards, MotherHydra, Krakoise, Hexagon, Silverclaw
28 Feb 2014: The Black Hearts, Corax and Celard and remek1983
22 Feb 2014: The Suicidal Assault Team, viral killer, Darrell and Heron Therapist
15 Feb 2014: The Metal Club, Hordkall
14 Feb 2014: The Brahmin Eaters, Foxxy Love
11 Feb 2014: The Men Of Their Words, nickcc4
09 Feb 2014: The Chopstick Triad, chenzo and VesperCore
22 Jan 2014: The Desert Striders, Zormad, Begs
14 Jan 2014: 9 Ghouls, ranother (merged into Ultra Violence)
14 Jan 2014: The Payday Crew, TotalAaron
13 Jan 2014: Strickland Propane Workers, Colonel Mob
10 Jan 2014: Wasteland Water Thieves, Tjanos
10 Jan 2014: New Reno Dealers, DraXaly
24 Dec 2013: The Ultra Violence, Margaux
20 Dec 2013: Desert Drifters, Letoo
12 Dec 2013: The Iron Fists, Jugulator
28 Nov 2013: Raiders Elite, ordinarygamer
16 Nov 2013: The Crazy Barbarians, juniorkm7
13 Nov 2013: Max Deal Syndicate, Skrzeku
09 Nov 2013: The Outcasts, Rtelrunia
05 Nov 2013: Wasteland Marauders, c_hieter
05 Nov 2013: Soldiers of The New World, Marshu
13 Oct 2013: The Big Army, 08eizo
08 Oct 2013: The Boneyard Criminals, Dengar
30 Sep 2013: The Children of War, now operating as Devils Reject Pariahs, DemonHunter666
26 Sep 2013: Hungry Hippos, Shish
25 Sep 2013: The Reactor Jumpers, gh0un
24 Sep 2013: Backstreet Boys, playb0y
21 Sep 2013: Blood Lust Raiders, Bloodlust raider
07 Sep 2013: The Little Shits, kaincallavis
05 Sep 2013: Free Miners Federation, ApocaRUFF
These are just the ones I found with official announcements on the forum. There are more, like the Thieves Den (Wormsign)-no interest in TC, REPO (BR?), Vegan Cannibals (Nefastus-retiring), etc.
Naturally, an idea is produced from this trend; keep building your factions and doing whatever it is you enjoy doing in this game, but...every player associated with any of these teams could level a single PvP fighter each, join that 1 fighter to a single common base, and the whole group fights as a single unified team to do Town Control.
As I see it, such an alliance plan is the only viable way to get a "new TC gang" going. Otherwise, we just continue on the same slow course, with new factions springing up, recruiting a few people, then fading out, or at least stagnating to a point where we realize a limit, a limit short of strong PvP requirements.
WAlli (Wastelander Alliance). Just think about it, you faction leaders and all other new players. Combined we could be strong. Start taking towns now, while some players are messing with *ahem* that other server, and guess what happens next: the big teams come back to reclaim their Reloaded territory and then we have a game loaded with new action. What say ye?