Liberty Rules

[Reise]

In Freelancer, Trent was granted access to LSF ships on the basis of working on a freelance basis with them. I cannot remember a single instance in the campaign where a pirate flew a Navy ship or vice versa. I cannot recall a single NPC I have ever encountered which flew in such a manner. Freelancer NPCs use Civilian ships, also.

If you could give me an example of pirates using Navy ships or other such things, I might be able to discuss this more "in context".

Well, for instance Blood Dragons flying Kusari military ships. Not Liberty specifically, but it's an example.

Just the fact that these ships are up for purchase tells me this was intended from the start. Otherwise we would have far more civilian ships than faction ones, and none of those faction ships would be available outside those factions. In other words if that were true, Trent wouldn't have been able to buy any official Liberty ships, because he was never actually an officer.

Often a LPI or Navy ship will be one of a player's first purchases, because that's what's available. Fining a player for that and saying they're impersonating an officer is just stepping over the line IMO. As long as those ships are available, and players are using them within RP (Tagged/ID'ed correctly and policing, or Tagged/ID'd correctly and being independent) there really shouldn't be an issue.

Like I said this is just my opinion.

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