Proposal: ID changes for 4.87

[Irwin]

Which specific Civilian Transports are we talking about here, which you don't consider to be solely lawful?
Stork (Advanced Train: 5.000
Titanic: 4.800
Crane (Large Train): 4.500
Enterprise Liner: 4.300
(Pirate Train: 4.300)
These are the only civilian, siriuswide ships that would be excluded. And aside from the Pirate Train, they're all defined as lawful ships.
Another point is that the unlawful factions have, next to moving cargo, piracy as a means to generate activity. The pure shipping factions (house haulers) -only- have moving cargo as the means to generate activity. I'd say giving those factions a leg up in the cargo department isn't a bad idea from a gameplay standpoint.

Those are civilian ships, meaning, neither lawful nor unlawful. They're Sirius Civilian (meaning open use, for all civilians) from both a roleplay perspective and a tech chart/rules perspective. That's like saying the Eagle or Roc are lawful ships. Also, you completely forgot about the Shukensha.

As for your point about how unlawfuls can pirate... It's kind of irrelevant.
If you want to talk about the other things unlawfuls can do, there are lawful factions with wide ZoI's, far more to do than just trade (like policing their space and mining), that have higher cargo limits. I'd argue there's more activity there than activity you get from piracy, but I digress.

If this is about some sort of balancing from a gameplay standpoint, it's not really gonna work at all. The lawful trading factions already have several advantages over smugglers, in terms of making money and how easy things are. Unlawfuls can't trade in the most profitable commodities (ores) with nearly as much efficiency. Unlawfuls don't have trade lanes for a good deal of their routes, and it's riskier for them to use them. Unlawfuls don't have the protection of house militaries and police. Unlawfuls have much more distance to friendly bases. This isn't about giving lawful traders a leg up, they already have one, (there's not much competition between smugglers and lawful traders as it is, one clearly beats out the other). Smuggling is already harder (as it should be, might I add), and there's no need to make it less worthwhile.

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