Liberty Rules

[Praetyre]

Please don't interpret this message as hostile, because that's not it's intent. You raise some good points which I respectfully disagree with, and will argue in response to your excellent civility with the same civility.

We are going soft on newbies and under construction characters, as I stated earlier. We also aim to reign in independents, who many have complained of being overly harsh, unfair to new players and to be making their own laws. People (not directed towards you) complain about it when we let the independents play along with us, and complain when we try and reign them in. It's a can't-please-everyone situation.

The Blood Dragons are a politically well connected group with many operatives in the Kusari government. It is not implausible they could nick a wing of dragons under the noses of the KNF given enough string pulling.

You are correct, Trent was never an officer of Liberty. But he was a freelancer who had worked for the LSF, at one time received asylum from the Lane Hackers, worked with the Blood Dragons, and worked as an Order operative. He received resources from these people, really.

Trent, in SP, probably would have to have worked very hard for the respective NPC factions in order to get access to their ships, realistically. I mean, is it really realistic that a resource starved populace like the Xenos would sell their ships to someone who is one notch above their sworn enemies?

Freelancer was rushed. A lot of things got taken out, a lot of things don't make sense from a logical standpoint, so they are what you call "game mechanics". Game mechanics is like arguing that you can be, in game, friendly with Outcasts and Corsairs at the same time. It's like claiming in a debate about Bowser's armies versus Sephiroth that Goombas can kill people by touching them. It's the sort of thing that, like the console messages, in RP, stand out oddly.

Trent can, with a lot of work, be very friendly to both Rogues and LPI. Does this mean that freelancers or mercenaries could realistically have such a reputation in RP? I don't think so.

But we, as we've stated earlier, are the Navy. We call the shots on who gets our ships (though the LPI and LSF call the shots on who gets theirs), we enforce the law, and these ships are manufactured by DSE in governmental contracts and they are our property due to said contracts. If Rheinland Military Matroses cannot get battleships, I don't see how Joe or Jane Liberty can get a gunboat or a fighter in the midst of a hostile period (remember, at the time of Freelancer SP, the houses did not have the tensions they used to.)

The two best sources for RP inspiration is real life and NPCs. No Freelancer NPCs fly any ships but Civilian ones. In fact, NO NPCs EXCEPT Navy NPCs fly ANY Navy ships, capital or no. No military would sell top of the line equipment to people just above enemy status.

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