I wrote often on this subject in Tangent and was summarily ignored by the SS. I will try again here.
We've already made an effort to use faction chat rather than private lines, which is, frankly, the first step to becoming a much stronger faction.
What I would like to see is this: A vetting process, whereby certain important people (PPUs, Hackers) are authorized to be in several TH clans, and may switch temporarily without stepping on any toes, to aid another faction in an OP fight/hack/raid. The important part about this is that the people be authorized and known in advance, perhaps a list posted on a thread here in Tech Haven forums. I myself am building a hacker (I will let you know when he is ready) for this purpose.
If we do things this way, and talk mostly on faction channel, although we dont have many players, it will be easier for whatever clan happens to want to take an op or conduct a raid to scrape together the support crew from the other clans without actually stealing away the clans players in a permanent way. It also, incidentally, sets up sort of a 'hacker pool,' in that the known hackers whos names are on the list can all become useful to ALL the clans, enabling ALL our clans to be able to take outposts, instead of just the clan they are affiliated with. I know this already happens this way to a certain extent, but we need to make it much easier and faster and more well known. We may have fewer players than the other factions, but if we get a good system like this set up, we will find ourselves able to strike more often - and that is VERY important.
Jesse