Should official factions have more power?

[Baltar]

It was a good job I was sitting down lol! See we can find common ground even when we seem to be polar opposites!

Just to nitpick your post because I am sad, if you are a "Civillian ID" in a Rhienland ship then you can't be touched:D

The merc ban was enforced in Rheinland before Liberty adopted it, in both cases it was more hassle than it was worth. The embargo has good RP basis but again, given the ratio of unlawful's to lawful's at the moment it's impossible to enforce, I rarely jump on my Xeno these days because the law men are already being ganked, which makes me sad, I used to enjoy attacking Liberty with odds against me, and to be honest I am of the opinion that house forces should be stronger than unlawful's. I know I am a well established lawful player, but I am also a well established unlawful one, hell my forum name is named after my first and fav char here, a Xeno.

I'm going to disagree on the ship ban issue you raise though, Rheinland combat ships in Liberty and Liberty combat ships in Rheinland have to be viewed with suspicion under the current RP.

*Swinging back on-topic: Not a bad idea Korrd, although I personally do favour 1 official faction per NPC group, and that effects me, I am in several factons that are duplicates, for example XG, I would favour XG being merged into the XA instead of a Xeno council.

Well ... wherever the Merc ban came from ... it destroyed my chance to play a lawful. The FIRST lawful character I ever had was Baltar (an independent merc). And he kept getting ganked by ubercaps. He flew a Bretonian Gunboat and offered escort services to traders. But thanks to the ban ... I deleted the character. So much for me playing a lawful character. The other semi-lawful was A'den Jango with the Mandalorians. So ... I woulda liked to have a lawful character but Liberty and Rheinland "role play" destroyed that option.

On the ship ban ... I totally agree with the capships and such. You should never find a Rheinland battleship in Liberty just hangin about. But I'm flying a Kiith Somtaaw (a vessel with unknown origins "discovered" by Rheinland) ... hardly makes you a Rheinlander by flying it. Or how about the Advanced Train ... its not built in Liberty is it? And the Container Transport (Kusari)?

My first character ... still sitting down? My first character was Archelon ...:mellow:... I've also had Agisdi Vlenidohv and Atalawohisdi ... :cool:

But anyway ... I don't mind official factions having power and I totally agree that only one official faction can be the authority. Just need to make sure they don't let the power go to their heads.