After much personal contemplation and deliberation, myself and fionn have decided to introduce a brand new aspect to the SMP.
How will the Factions work?
Factions would go hand in hand with the SMP experience. An individual should start a faction with peers, or ask to join another individual's faction. This faction will then continue to play the vanilla Minecraft survival game, but as a collective rather than as an individual. Factions would create bases, produce ranks within their guild, establish a hierarchy, and finally, conquer other factions. I think this would be a nice addition to some TF Guilds, who currently operate under a role play scenario. For example, The Imperium could now become an official faction; with a set goal to conquer other factions.
No Kits
We will not be including any kits in this SMP x Factions cross. This is to ensure a true SMP experience, in which users must genuinely build from the ground up in order to bring their faction to prosperity.
ETA
I plan to have a working demo on this by next Sunday.
This renders the dissolution of the anarchy idea. Cheating is not allowed and rules will be enforced.
More details to follow.