was creating custom factions with a friend and when i was all done i hit Create and there was nothing added to the faction list. i tried again with the same name and it said the name was taken even though it wasn't appearing in the faction select menu.

My friend was having problems with creating a faction because the Author Field was over lapping the Name Field so he couldn't create a faction 

I have the second problem as well, and have already created a post detailing it. Be sure to have your friend check that later if your post doesn't get resolved by then. Best of luck!

I have successfully created a custom faction.  I didn't experience either issue.  PC, 1.01

I have the second problem, too.