Vigilante ID

[Maelstrom]

The Vigilante ID isn't broke and it's not just an excuse to pew pew anything that angers you.

First, the way the ID is now you can actually land on bases, and won't that be handy? I played a Vigilante in .85. I could only land on Semi-Lawful and Unlawful bases. How many vigilantes have you heard about that lived in the same house as the evil people they were crusading against? Live in the slums, sure. But not in the badguys gang hideout. The new way is much better.

I have no problem with not being able to escort traders, either. Vigilante's aren't bodyguards. Bodyguards have to follow the broken rules of a broken society that allows criminals to walk free. Vigilantes break rules they feel are corrupt or inefficient and no trader wants an escort that is going to get him targeted by the lawfuls AND the unlawfuls.

Of course a Vigilante should show a faction affiliation. Vigilantes aren't out to protect the whole world, that's superhero stuff. Vigilantes are just out to protect thier slice of life. They have a city or planet to clean up, people they care about to protect, first. I can see a group/unofficial faction flying vigilante ID's and bounty hunter IFF's in the Border/Edge worlds, though.

And it makes all kinds of sense that vigilantes are only going to be attacking enemies of it's faction. You aren't going to beat hell out of the people you are trying to protect, are you? If you are flying Junker IFF and a vigilante ID, you are going to be targeting the Xeno's and Hogosha, watching the house millitaries and spying on house corporations. That just makes sense.

Finally, the biggest thing that seperates the vigilante from the scum he hunts is the fact that he isn't stealing or proffiting from other peoples misery. So yeah, no cargo or credit demands.

These changes won't hurt vigilante role play at all. All it does is force people to develop thier vigilante beyond, "I hate badguys PEW PEW PEW". So get out there and make your Bundshuh Vigilante, your Orbital Spa and Cruise pilot who brings justice to slavers and unlawfuls, your edgeworld Zoner who finally had enough of baddies harshing his cool and so grabs his houka of justice and hits the space lanes.

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