I also maybe thought rather than just having people with permissions setting your faction members at work you could maybe have it so that only the faction members could set themselves to work in the racket. This would make members more interactive with their faction and make it more fun for them rather than just receiving notifications saying someone had done it for them. This would again work against proxies and make it more fun
I agree.
This could be something like faction missions which cost the member energy, nerve and or happiness. in return the faction gains notoriety and rises in strength and opens up faction rewards while the contributing member get a set reward determined by the faction leadership. this could be cash, drugs, permissions, bonuses or points to obtain ranks within the faction that grants the before mentioned.
this way active members gain more benefit from the faction than bandwagoneers.