Proposal: ID changes for 4.87

[Cat]

On intelligence IDs/cruisers:
The role suggested for them - border defense with warships - is that of the Navy, not that of a covert ops organisation. Ships of that nature are roleplaying as navy, and should take that ID instead.

I see your point here, I guess. I could ask "What makes Police factions different then?", but I won't (simply because having the Police IDs nerfed even more is the last thing I'd want to see). So, judging by your statement, the Navy's main role would be border defense and deploying caps against foreign military on the battlefield, and it's fine. The Police would deploy cruisers in house space to counter the pirate threat, which is also acceptable, since problems tend to arise quite often, at least in Liberty.

That leaves the intelligence factions, which (as Anne has pointed out) could deploy cruisers for operations in lawless systems (like the Omicrons or systems without jumpgates in general; like in the Order's case, but excluding Alpha and Gamma as well). Thus they'd have a different role, and quite a necessary one, since the opposition there may field everything up to battleships. Of course, it be up to the devs and admins to decide in the end, but it seems I'm not the only one who doesn't quite welcome the removal of cruisers from intel faction IDs (that includes a few members of my faction and some other people, as I've witnessed in this thread and on Skype).

Even if the decision is final, we'll try to live with that, but the bitter flavour will remain, despite the fact that the ID would become better in general. Anyway, I guess there's nothing more I can say on this matter now.

As far as other IDs are concerned, I'm not much of an expert. The Brigands seem to have lost access to New Tokyo, which is not necessarily a bad thing (especially if piracy won't be so hard in Gallia when 4.87 arrives; the Order ID line forbidding them to bring caps into systems without a jumpgate could still use some sort of tweak, in my opinion (but I think it'd be up to more active Order players to come up with suggestions concerning the nature of this tweak).

But overall the job is done nicely, and I mean it. The IDs seem to be more clear now, with fewer opportunities for vague interpretation.

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