Several Questions/Clarifications on Server Rules

[sovereign]

Normally getting help to set up a character from one of your other characters is accepted and encouraged. (Admin will even help with the transfer if they are on-line and bored.)

However, there is one exception that is frowned upon and your scenario sort of touches on it.
[I think it does break one of the rules but I can't remember which one]

It is NOT ALLOWED to transfer ID's between characters whether from one of your own characters to another or through a 3rd party (by getting him/her to buy it for you.
E.g. If you want to be a Freelancer you have to go to the pain of getting on well enough with one of the selling factions to be permitted to buy it.

(I personally think it is perverse for this to be the case for generic ID's such as trader, smuggler, pirate and freelancer but I don't make the rules. Also I think IDs should be much more widely available as trying to even find some of the little blighters can take an absolute age).

I agree with your little commentary at the end; generics are really hard to find, and if someone who owes you money pays up when you are too far away/don't have good enough rep to get a legal ID, you get hosed. Repeatedly. (The person I pity probably knows who they are) Methinks generics should be available everywhere, and purchasable at fairly low rep (like upper dislike), otherwise it is entirely possible for there to be a person who has only one or two places they can buy IDs, and they're halfway across sirius. Just my .02$

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