I agree with you, I’m just explaining the current situation. This is actually never ending story, PvP needs to be entertaining for the newcomer, otherwise he will leave.
Let’s say I’m new to the game and I don’t speak Polish, so I cannot join BBS. So I have basically two choices, to join TTTLA/C88 or to join Hawks+friends. If I join Hawks, nobody will really care that I can’t play properly, since half of people there play for lulz, they don’t care about competition that much. Great. But the problem is, if I don’t get any victory after some fights, I might get frustrated, you need to be a really hardcore player to survive in that faction. Possible threat of quitting the game for good is 85%.
Ok, now, let’s assume I joined C88. Great faction, helpful people everywhere, but as far as I am concerned, you need to follow many rules (which, I don’t say is anything bad) and it happens quite often that people don’t fit in for some reason. Basically you can’t rob bases, you can’t act like dick and many people find that too restrictive (these are btw probably the future recruits of hawks, again, that’s my theory and my opinion) and they are kicked or leave for not having any “fun”. Possible threat of quitting the game for good is 60%.
So as a conclusion if a newcomer wants to have some PvP, it’s very hard to join TC fights for him, because the background (joining some faction etc.) is too complicated. He can enjoy some Hinkley, some miners pwning in mines and maybe some TB action near SF. That’s it. I don’t really know how to fix this, but to me it seems that the whole faction concept is actually too restrictive - you can officially be in only one faction, so if there is a fight and you would love to join, you simply can’t because your faction isn’t ready for the fight. You have to wait till you gather some players, even organizing such event is a hard work. So we have 200 players online and only 20 fighting because 40 other guys who would love to fight can’t because they are not members of neither of fighting factions.