' Wrote:a faction is "white" to all... yet they have ships they really do NOT wish others to use. - but when the entire faction is white - the rules say - these ships can be given away ..... flagged as "white".
Reread this Jinx, and detect the inherent flaw in this statement.
You're either white to most or red to most. Zoners mostly interact with the Borderworld and Edge World denizens, which means the Corsairs, Outcasts, GMG, IMG, Hessians, Order and BHG. Those factions I'd flag white, at most. Then the ships you want to declare civilian, can go there. The rest of the world, especially house factions (which the Zoners are reputed to dislike) should not be using Zoner ships at all.
Setting different colors for individual ships for a single faction is going to make the whole "can use/can't use" system so convoluted it'll be a pain in the rear to maintain. I know I won't support that kind of configuration for it. Sure as hell won't maintain it. If you want to set ships as civvy, that's your perogative really (or that of the balance folks, not sure anymore). But setting this ship to "Zoner ship that can be used by ABC" and that ship to "Zoner only", or any other faction thinking to do that... No.
One faction. One techfield. No exceptions.
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