Restrictions on capital ship use

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I voted to make em more expensive. I don't mean the initial cost though, I mean to run. A lot more. They cost enough to buy now (Although increasing the purchase cost of cruisers, destroyers and battlecruisers wouldn't hurt).

As for who has rank and where they got their ship etc, a thorny question indeed. Whilst official clans/factions with name like Rheinland Military or Liberty Security Force (Both great RP'ers by the way) may have an official title, it's not official in Freelancer - the game. I know that sounds wrong but can we command NPC's?
Do we accept orders from them?
Obviously not but they are still rheinland military or LSF. The same goes for indies. As long as their roleplay is good (which I admit can be lacking sometimes) what does it matter who is in 'command?'
We have to differentiate between RM/LSF and the NPC LSF or rheinland military. There is room for indies alongside NPC's. Your 'same ID'ed' NPC's foe is your foe etc. I'd like to think that most indies would tend to follow the lead of an equally tagged clan member cos they don't have the experience that clan players do. If they do have the experience, then they would probably go along with the clan player anyway for exactly the same reason. If it doesn't work out like that, then it may just be bad RP. They can be bad at RP in smaller ships as well though.

Just like to add that I used RM and LSF as examples of clans who are big, frequently encountered, knowledgable on Disco and generally good RPers.

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