The factions really need to be noticed more in general. Faction wars would be cool, but the only reason for leveling up a faction at this point is to get a lousy looking ship with a faction recoloring on it. I'd like to add more to the OP's thread. 1. Make the faction ships on par cosmetically with many of the awesome ships,that are popularly used. A large majority of vanilla ships look like dog shit. They are lame in design and become an eyesore after being equipped for too long, unlike expansion ships that definitely look awesome by comparison. 2. Give the factions a role in the game rather than just being there for shiggles. There are missions from the planet patrol selection that barely include the factions. Give the factions their own individual and widely unique bounties - both PVP and PVE bounties with unique rewards later on, not just a mediocre ship. An example of a PVE faction bounty could be this: New Monarchy vs. Dead Orbit Guardian, a squad of Dead Orbit members has invaded one of NM's outposts on Mars, that outpost contains important documents that DO has been after. Locate the outpost, take out the enemy, and secure the documents. And be careful, info tells us the squad leader is very strong. Next to those documents, his death is priority. This bounty would take place in a new area on the planet with Dead Orbit enemies instead of the usual cabal/fallen etc. It could bring a refreshing change of gameplay and could provide an opportunity at creating complex and compelling lore to the dactioms and their occasional struggles as allies or as foes. Alternatively this bounty idea could be a PVP bounty and the Dead Orbit enemies are players with faction clothing defending the stolen outpost. 3. Armor. Faction armor is cool but virtually useless in comparison to end-game gear until upgraded with etheric light. Not only that but it seems lazy that for some classes, the different faction armor sets are the same with a different coloring to them. Each faction should have a more specific style to their armory, not just a color. Dead Orbit seems to be the best so far at having a more particular style based on their lore. 4. I think we should allow players to gain reputation for every faction and not be limited to one. I say this purely because Destiny limits you to 3 guardians. If Destiny was an MMO with 9+ character slots, then limiting a guardian to 1 faction would make sense. These are just a few of my ideas to make the factions more in-depth and worthwhile to the player.