As a bunch of you have been heckling me about this subject, and because I think that - by now - tempers have cooled enough that we can all look at these things with happy interest, I've decided to open the Faction Forums to the public for the coming two weeks. After the 17th of October, they'll be shut down once more, and subsequently deleted.
You won't be able to post in those boards so if you come across anything you'd like to comment on, quote it in this thread!
Cheers,
--GH