Did you know that.... (Discovery edition)

[jammi]

-That back in the day if you wanted a Zoner ID there was no double bribe or /restart , so the only way to get it was to do missions for GMG. 50+ missions.

There've been Zoner double bribes since vanilla.

The real nightmare used to be getting Freelancer IFFs, funnily enough. The only faction they had any empathy relations with was the Zoners, so they only way it could be done was with triple/quad Zoner bribes, then killing the storage depots outside FP1 or in Omicron 74 to enable more bribes.

Freelancer IFF'd ships were probably as rare as Fugitive IFFs are today, initially. The Freelancer ID was also the equivalent of the Recruit ID now, meaning it was only permitted to be used up until level 30, and indicated that a ship couldn't be shot.