Allow Nomad Capitals for the indie Nomad ID (and some other changes)

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Ehhh? No. Better thing would be to improve the recruitment process. Which is Huggie already on to I think. Probably, remove the ID entirely, ease the recruitment and directly support players into nomad gameplay.

But why should people have to join K'Hara? Imagine if people had to join [LN] to fly Liberty Navy. Or had to join [TAZ] to fly Zoners.

There is a critical problem here and the need to sign up to the faction to fix it - which evidently isn't working because I am not seeing Nomad an influx of numbers nor seeing a fix to this big pvp imbalance issue - is unecessary. And as I said the reason why there's no alternative to K'Hara is because the indie ID itself is incredibly and needlessly restrictive.

And the notion of removing the ID is a joke. Should we start taking away the indie IDs of all NPC factions just because of some unjust and preconceived idea that actually taking way restrictions and buffing some for better gameplay is terrible? Or that just because indie RP will never be 100% equal to official faction RP, we shouldn't bother allowing indies at all?

Basic Nomad RP, in accordance to the NPC faction and vanilla, is not difficult. For the more advanced stuff, K'Hara show them the ropes. But for the sake of logging in, raiding me and I shoot them back, and in the process everyone has a fun time? Basic requirements.

Unregulated Terrorist IDs with caps should be a no go. I just remind you on the time AI cruisers were allowed to attack anything within their ZOI.

I couldn't remember a moment when I shed a tear over that. In fact, I didn't even know it had been changed. When was this? Anyway, apples and oranges. We're talking about Nomads here. There's not really a problem with an AI shortage as the AI ID is open enough and unrestricted enough for indies to play it and not be hopelessly outmatched by everything else in the Omicrons. We can't say the same for the Nomad ID. And it's hardly unregulated; if people screw up they'll be punished by the rules.

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Where is all this stigma coming from? On one hand it seems like K'Hara doesn't want anyone to get access to their toys because it seemingly runs the risk of making them defunct (when it really doesn't), on the other people have these unjust fears that allowing Nomad indies to stand toe-to-toe with their enemies in the Omicrons will somehow make them worse than every other indiebase combined and be the biggest crisis since the Wall Street Crash. If letting indies use caps is really this oh-so-bad then perhaps we should remove caps from every ID?

Christ the amount of snooby elitism in this thread absolutely stinks and it's what's killing this mod. I'm almost starting to feel sick when making some of these replies.

Well, in fact, this is something I have once suggested for a while, to gain focus of the representing player groups of each faction "directing" new players to a group of players instead of flying alone right from the start by creating an entry system with a bunch of jumpholes with an ad-banner (that contains a small description, contact and tasks) of each faction above each jumphole.

It could even be a decision tree separated into "Do you prefer to play lawful, semi-lawful, unlawful?" -> "Do you prefer shooting, trading, balanced?" -> And then you have the factions to choose.

Anyway this is an old topic, but it stays "No" to caps for nomad indies.

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