This goal can only be achieved with hard-coded rule change (be it ID or server rules):
Quote:This change was made primarily to help Unlawful/Corporate/Quasi-lawful factions have a bit more breathing room to engage each other, without having to worry about being FR5'd or face other dire consequences from House Governments. [...] (Garret)
Anybody who knows how factions work and how some factions want to screw over others, knows that this goal can never be achieved with anything that is not a rule.
"Self-restraint" and "common sense" ..."talk to each other", and "remember that FR5 is bad"... are you kidding me? Do you know the reality of how this game is being played behind the scenes?
Obviously not.
This needs to be hard-coded to be sufficiently reliable.
Before this has happened (in whatever way), corps and semi-lawful factions are as restricted and kept from playing what they should be able to play as before. You never know whether you would be struck with ID-wrecking consequences, so you can't take the risk, so you abstain from the action. I have done that for 4+ years now and practically all other factions that could do corp piracy also kept their fingers away from it. I know why.
Quote:Gateway-Bowex at least have a sort of gentlemen's agreement going that no screen shots of us shooting each other would be permissive as evidence unless those are actually taken by law enforcement. So, as long as no cops are there to see it, we can shoot each other up outside House space all we want with no repercussions. Maybe if other factions would do the same, none of this would be an issue, or certainly much less of one.
Gentlemen's agreements have been tried.
Only BMM- agreed. Rheinland mining faction leaders denied.
Seems it's comfortable to have the backing of an omnipotent oorp threat of wrecking an ID (= House FR5) as a joker.
