You're going to run into one of two issues:

1) Players choose houses of new initiates. Weenies flock to the House in power. Or that their friend is running. It would be an extension of the problems we see in the broader cabal wars (*), except we have an Empire system that avoids it right now. The most effective combat groups tend to draw on different types of classes, and the current system makes assembling this a political issue.

2) New houses are assigned randomly. Then you can't recruit, and there can't really be roleplay differences between the houses, because you could get assigned to the one you're supposed to hate.

(*): "Hey! Look! 7 guys from Cabal A are on, and 0 from their enemy, Cabal B!"

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