I'm getting a little confused over the direction we are heading into with Neutrals. Over the years the Neuts have evolved from what was orginally planned at launch and have turned into their own faction, which is great since this is an evolving storyline which is partly driven by player action.
We've seen great additions for Neutrals which have further increased their standing as an independant faction:
Newland City Council
Neutral faction ID cards
Neutral STs/LTCs who have chosen to become Neutral.
The JOBE scientists who chose to leave Omni-Tek and become Neutral.
Neutral faction representative
etc etc.
However, recent discussions regarding Neutrals and their lack of represenation in the NPE lead to Genele saying how Funcom decided to stop treating Neutrals as a faction years ago, and apparently it isn't a choice even when the story itself proves it can be. Going from what Nina said here it seems that we are furthering the Neutrals position; which is great - but to me contradicts what Genele has been saying.
Personally, i'm all for furthering the Neuts and their position as a faction and think the ideas Nina mentioned are brilliant - but what are we doing in a strict storyline sense? Moving away from Neuts being a faction or furthering it?