How do I send merge faction requests?

From the rules: Faction mergers are currently disabled and cannot be done at this time.

Any chance they can be performed with admin-help?

I checked with Erek and apparently that isn't an option.

The only way would be to manually merge. Send all assets and dissolve one faction.

Thank you for your replies.

What happens if both factions have DCs that you would like to keep? Would we be able to get admins to move the DCs over to the final faction and then merge the rest manually?

No, the admins won't move DCs; that was what I asked Erek about.

That is annoying - faction mergers were/are a feature of the game to allow us to move DCs between factions. Means we would have to man 2 factions when realistically we should only need to man 1.

While that is true, it's also the case that with mergers it is theoretically possible for a single faction to end up in charge of nearly all datacards of that faction type, which is unreasonable and detrimental to gameplay. If it does end up reenabled, there may be some modifications made, but I haven't heard any plans to reenable it anytime soon.

Is it possible to get a link to the Sim News of this feature disablement please?
I can't seem to find it.

It happened several years ago, didn't it?

Something like that. It's pretty clearly stated on the rules page, and digging through Sim News archives is not my idea of a productive expenditure of time. :p

But if it wasn't posted on the Sim News I can claim it is invalid and write a lengthy screed in opposition!

Right'o.
I was aware it was disabled but didn't expect it to remain that way permanently.

thanks for the reply.

Apparently back in 14.054 it was disabled Jesfa post.

Hmm I suppose that could be taken how you thought Syn with it being basically forever, but it seems me and Metyl (and probably a bunch of others) thought it was like everything else and just disabled for a bit because of some issues and would be brought back once time was available to fix it. Oh well.

Wait, what? I neither said nor implied that the feature was was permanently disabled. I didn't even think it (although I think it's possible, but it's entirely uncertain and I haven't heard anything either way). The rules (that I quoted in my very first post) specify that it's "currently" disabled. I said that I hadn't heard of any plans to reenable it anytime soon, and that it's possible for the feature to undergo some modifications prior to being enabled. I'm not sure what part of that you read as "..and it's never coming back, suckers!"

I get it.