Rules and RP

[Zelot]

Yes, i've encountered this problem aswell. If your in a Zoner ship your automatically branded a ZONER, if your in a corsair ship your automatically branded a corsair. Most don't even bother to think about your rp, they see a ship or a tag and assume thats what you are. Then they want to go off about how your in the wrong ship, the wrong place, or not rp'ing when they have only met you in space maybe ONCE. Then instead of trying to understand your RP they just spout off about how you need to do this or that or leave the system or be destroyed.

For instance, on the info of a "corsair" cruiser it says that corsairs would sometimes offer it to wealthy freelancers. Now, i have a couple problems with this. 1. How can a wealthy "Freelancer" have this cruiser when the freelancer id does not allow cruiser class ships. and 2. the entire servers population would assume you were a corsair or "unlawfull" JUST because of the ship, and understandably, it IS and "unlawfull" ship.

As i said, there are many different cases where things like this happen, and instead of trying to understand or even discuss it intelligently, most people would rather tell you what "they" think you should do, or risk being depressurized by them and or thier buddies.

2 points First I think you are refering to the Huntress Cruiser, which was never really a "Corsair" cruiser, just used until we had one of our own. Second. The tag id issue is one that comes about when you are missing one of two things, a) faction specific ID or b) tag, or when these a and b dint match. You are flying a generic pirate ID, with a Order tag and a corsair ship. So 2 of the 3 could fit corsair, so thats what people see you as. The order are not pirates, so you are actually violating the rules flying your ship this way.

6.2 Out of Roleplay (OORP):
In-game tag seen before the name must match the ID as closely as possible. It is not allowed to have the tag not match ID category. For example, it is prohibited to have 'Police' tag and 'Pirate' ID.

Equipment used must match tag and ID as closely as possible. For example, it is not allowed for Corsairs to use Outcast ships and guns.

The Order is a military faction and you are using a Pirate id. this is a no no. The funny thing is if you changed your ID to Order you would be perfectly in RP for an Order char, except the pirating and weapons and such.



Last point, if you make it hard for people to see what character you are playing (ie generic ID's, non-matching tags/ships) Dont be upset when people dont know what character you are playing.

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