Liberty Rules

[Reise]

(Disclaimer: The following is entirely my opinion, read at your own risk)

Right ho.. the idea that the military freely sells their ships is, in my opinion, ridiculous. No military in the world sells submarines to civilians, and logically, the Liberty Navy doesn't sell Gunboats or goodness-knows-what-else to anyone with a credit card who isn't blatantly hostile. It's a game mechanic, like non-High Command people being able to use the Alaska jump gate. As some have pointed out, if you can't use the Magellan one, how on Manhattan are you going to get through the Alaska one?

Assuming things like this is true in the world of Freelancer would be a step in the wrong direction. There are plenty of occasions I can remember in FL that civilian (and even pirate) pilots use military/police ships like the Patriot, or the Defender, etc. In the case of cap. ships it makes more sense though, you obviously wouldn't sell something like that to just anybody. BUT there's always the case of RP, you don't necessarily know exactly how or why someone might've gotten a hold of a ship like that.

Now we're moving into the area of "imposed" RP, you're making rules that can very well conflict with people's stories and backgrounds (if they have them, assuming the player who has a ship like that is a responsible disco player, etc). It seems this sort of thing is becoming popular, the mentality that "we represent 'X' faction, we own this place, you must do as we say, no exceptions" is breaking the experience for others.

Don't get me wrong I'm all for these sorts of ideas, it gives you donut munchers something to do after all. But the key is flexibility, you never know what kind of character will come flying out of Manhattan.

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Reise[Merc] (Mercenary, Orca) -- Raserei (Ageira Tech., GMG Miner)