House Military Indies

[Tenacity]

I'm a supporter of 'indie' players, being one myself... but I'll say outright that many of the others I see are just complete idiots.

When I played an indie LSF / liberty gunboat, I did my job like any of the SA or =LSF= would. I patrolled new york and the surrounding liberty systems, I stopped smugglers, I helped traders when they had run-ins with pirates, so on and so forth. Even doing all that I still had problems with the officials, but now I realize that's likely because they deal with so many 'bad' indies on a daily basis.

The problem with a lot of these independent military and police players is that they want to act like they've got authority over everyone else, without doing their 'jobs'. They simply go around and cause trouble in the name of 'justice'.

So to answer your questions:

1. In a certain regard, they do have the same authority. They're still supposed to be RP'ing the part of a house military or police force, and as such they should adhere to some basic rules regarding that... doing the jobs listed above, acting like a member of a house organization would, etc. The problem is they're outside the 'player' faction ranks, so they dont take orders from anyone. If the person/player behind that indie character is respectable and good natured, they'll conduct themselves well even without direct orders. Most of the time that isnt the case though, and they come off like rogue military.

2. As I said, a lot of players - including myself - dont want to join player factions. We play to have fun, not to deal with beaurocratical BS and ranks that you'd have to in an official faction. The indie players should ACT like a member of their faction though.

3. You should, unless they're making unreasonable requests. If they ask you to stop for a scan, do so, if you're a legal trader you have nothing to worry about. If they fire on you without warning or reason, or in any other way try to 'force' authority on you, either inform the official faction that there's a rogue on the loose or hire a bounty hunter to get you some payback.

4. As said in 3, inform the official faction that the player would normally be a part of that the independent has gone rogue.

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