Ancient Rome turned immigrants into citizens after they served decades fighting in their legions. A major advantage was that many of those who applied for this route simply didn't live to see the day that they became a Roman citizen. Hence, only the strongest of warriors ended up being incorporated into the empire.
It wasn't until the Late period when Rome was forced to shortcut foreigners' ways into citizenship to maintain their border troops that they experienced mass desertion and flat out mass treason, with well known results.
Moral of the story: Do not forgo SC values for cheap, active new members. They will corrupt us to the core. Several of us opened the gates on our Discord server because they failed to withstand the temptation of a growing server. Now the server is over extended, and slowly losing its personality as more and more cancer fills it.