Admin Notice: Community Rules Rewrite - Phase 3

[Binski]

The current situation is quite simple if you ask me, and I honestly can't understand all the confusion about it. To explain it as simple as possible, let's first assume:

•Each Pilot also has an identification card. This, in roleplay, is the pilot's, and not the ships.
•Each Ship has an IFF transponder. This, in roleplay, shows the alignment of the pilot.
•Each Ship has an ID item equipped. This, which does not exist within roleplay, only defines the ingame allowances of the player based on the faction that ID item belongs to.

First, let's talk on a Pilot's ID card. This has been part of the vanilla Freelancer, and naturally also exists within roleplay boundaries of Discovery. Even when you walk into a bar for the first time, the NPCs ask for your "card" before actually talking to you. This, however, doesn't mean the pilot slaps it against the windshield of the ship every time he goes for a fly, so cannot be seen when scanning the ship. It means characters can still ask for a stranger's "ID" before deciding which way to take the interaction, and "IDs not being part of the roleplay" simply refers to the ID item mounted on the ship which appears in the scan screen, and not the pilot's actual set of identification papers.

Best clarification on the matter, thank you. This makes sense to me. I get this and have tried 'educating' players in game if they react to ID's in as non obstructing a way possible. I've stated previously that its not so much this system thats so bad, but that a great deal of players were as I was, being totally off the mark on how to treat ID's in game. If anything this system allows for a lot of possibilities. I still suggest a special notification ingame for this.

So let me ask, I guess there's no plan for adding an in-game 'pilot ID'? something generated by a generic 'fill the blanks' form that you can 'reveal' if asked? nothing mentioning server rules but more so if a guy wants to sport his actual pilot/char and list a brief inrp write-up. Almost like how you can add write up to a player base. I know its not a necessity, but would be cool!

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