Vigilante ID

[Pancakes]

I like the idea of "vilgilantes" (I loved the Lost Star rp), but reality has proven that it is an ID that is sooo damn easy to exploit (Kruger Vigilante in T23). I do not want to go back there.
Gameplaywise, Vigilantes would take away the jobs (already limited) for mercs/freelancers/BHG. All 3 groups are struggling (euphemism much)
Furthermore, Vigilantes can be rped rather easily with what we have: IFF (faction you work as a Vigilante for), ID Freelancer, coupled with a custom-made Bounty BOard by your lead-faction (represented in the IFF). Has been done with Lost Star in Taus, and I think it worked well. Having the IFF to show who you work for is a great way of individualizing your Vigilante char, and people understand what you are intuitively.
I am not completely opposed to a Vigilante ID, however it would have to be linked to IFF that shows who you are. Not another "lawful unlawful" faction that shows white to everybody but is red to 50 % in reality.

Vigilante doesn't work for someone (that's the whole point about Vigilante), I always thought of the IFF vigilantes are using more as a declaration of their zone of operations.
The infamous Kruger simply took away the meaning of Vigilante for sole abuse, no more, no less. Vigilante (or a Vigilante group) is a civilian that decided to operate outside the law in order to fight Criminals. IMG by no means were criminals, they were enemies but not criminals. Nowadays each ID lists if it's lawful or otherwise so. Vigilante ID cannot be abused anymore, since if you attack a player that doesn't carry an ID that specifically says "This is an unlawful ID" you are subjected to a rule violation report.
The problem that most people in Discovery don't actually realize whom are vigilantes, as in, the fact that people like that actually exist, what their goals are, and how they work.
( in case you are interested in vigilantes as of late http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante#21st_century)
As said before, even when the vigilante ID was out there - except for Lost Star Vigilantes, and the Kruger execution group, you could hardly see any vigilantes around. Why? Because it's one of the hardest IDs to play around with. You can only dock only on a handful of bases around Sirius, use VERY limited technology, and 95% of the factions in the game hates you and can engage you at whim. Think of playing a Corsair, without the special technology perks. I don't expect that after 20 days of the initial release of this ID many people would still play it, if the rest of the player-base will treat this ID as proper, leaving it out for those who actually want to role play Vigilantes (like the Lost Star ones).
Well, that was my 2 cents anyway.