Are outcast cap ships now open to any ID?

[Eppy]

I am still planning a major military strike against the 101st to 'liberate' one from their shipyards. Think 100 Million per pilot plus expences plus bonuses would be enough? Any really good merc with EXCELLENT RP SKILLS keep your eyes open in the employment office.

You honestly think a single Dreadnought can take us down? You've never flown a Battleship before, have you?

Here's my dig with his Roleplay. He's running a business, and a small one. Here he is, buying a ship from a base that the 101st fully and wholly controls. It's in the 101st Guard System, giving us explicit permission to deny him that purchase and pursue him to the ends of the earth. And then there's the matter of the lovely Dreadnought itself. I'll go get the infocard:

The Cosairs contemptuously call this spacecraft "an overgrown zeppelin", but they know for sure that five of their poorly manufactured Osiris-type battleships won't ever take out one Outcast Dreadnought. Its armor and firepower are equal to best House battleships. However, due to the lack of resources the Outcasts could build only a few ships of this type, and most of them were hidden in remote areas of the Omicron Alpha system to counter potential assault against Malta.

See the problem? Why would the Outcast Guard sell a massive construct like that to a corporation? They need it for defensive purposes.
There aren't supposed to be large numbers of them, just a scant few. It's not even practical for what he wants, which is to fly around owning people that 'threaten his business interests'. What? That's not what we make Battleships for. Gunboats and Destroyers are much more suited for the task, and they're available.

He says he wants an Outcast Battleship now. How about no? Same thought process as the Dreadnought. It's smaller and cheaper and available for limited export, but not to a corporation, and don't anybody try to question me on the feasibility of that because I designed that ship.

Answer: Get a Destroyer. Scratch out everything to do with the Dreadnought and buy a Destroyer instead (I say scratch it out because after what he's somehow managed to do, read, one man commandeering an entire dreadnought from a protected military facility). No problems, no red tape, just a post with the ship's name and good behavior.

Thinking about an rp event where i defect to the corsairs just becuse of this

That constitutes an RP? The Corsairs would eat you alive (only half joking). Do you expect them to take their most hated enemy in just for fun, and do you honestly expect an Outcast to defect because the Military wouldn't let him fly his stolen Battleship? Sounds like a little kid having a temper tantrum.

Now, before anybody invokes the He Payed For It Bla Bla Bla argument, riddle me this. Could Bill Gates go down to US Navy Headquarters and tell the secretary "Hi, I'm Bill Gates, I'd like to buy the USS Iowa, please."? Chances are Bill, despite being the single richest human alive, is going to get taken away by the people in white coats. Same deal here.

If i can make friends with the Outcasts Guard enoguht to land on Corsica, buy the sip and fit it out rp style, and rp its flight well enough for the community standard (the 101st is not objective in this matter no matter what you tell me), and keep it all in server rules, I should be able to keep the ship

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LAND ON CORSICA. It's in the 101st Guard System, and hence we have total control over landing rights. Indeed, being in the system at all without the prior authorization of an Outcast faction is illegal.

How come when i put an hour into working on my story, and do a nice post on it, i get rejected. I understand their rp reason, but come on, let us have some fun (once again restrice the sales of cap ship you dont want out there by some sort of software block). Eveyone else other indie who simply said "Im an Outcast to defend Malta. My shps name is X" got approved? Fair, balanced, and unobjective, i think not. I know they all had destroyers, and i am (or maybe was) willing to trade down, but not now after they simply put me on kos before giving me ample time to sell the ship for scrap.

We put you on KoS because you refused to sell the ship, bub. You want to sell it? Good! Do it and we'll take it down, but the simple fact of the matter is you mouthed off to us and denied our authority. If you're not running from Outcast space very quickly you'll probably end up with a bullet in your head. I'm willing to forgive your blatant disregard for the law of the land and let you keep the Destroyer, but I will not authorize the purchase of Outcast Dreadnoughts for anything besides a proper Outcast Military player.

Oh, and did I mention that a software block would be considered hacking? Yeah. Problem.

If this measure is just a rubber stamp to prove a player can Role Play

That's exactly what it is, Laowai, a way to deal with people who can't RP so the people that can have clean space to play in. I will not stand for the 'Discovery Capwhore's Union' trying to shut us down because, simply, it is an Out of Roleplay orgnaization and has no bearing as such as to what the 101st does. You honestly think you can just put yourselves above us like that? I really don't think that works...

The only ships that the 101st are likely to deny sale of are the Battleship and Dreadnought, pure and simple, and I'll say it again: They are military ships. A corporations should not have a Battleship. Why on earth would they need one? Too expensive to maintain, and they're civilians. Let's give Microsoft a fleet of US Navy Destroyers and a couple of old Nimitzes, sure, what the heck? I think not.

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I mean I know Eppy's trying with the insane crew idea and all, but that won't work if the entire ship's crew is robotic would it?

Automation of a ship that large isn't practical or eveybody'd have robotic Battleships, thus invalidating the point of the game.

Why have the 101st police the situation?

Because the Admins have a full plate and minor RP violations get ignored; as long as it doesn't break a server rule there's nothing they can do. That's where the player factions come in.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.