A message from above?

[Tenacity]

Most dominant factions out there (meaning officially approved player groups that have been given their own guard systems, stations, etc.) should be able to restrict access to anything above cruiser size, IMO.

It's not so much that they dont want anyone but their faction using the ships - independents of that faction (using the tag/ID) should have access as long as they -prove their worth-. By prove their worth, I mean prove that they arent complete idiots using the ships to pvp whore, and that they actually know how to RP and realize that there is a structured ranking system they must follow even if they arent within a faction.

The problem is when you have people who arent members of the faction (not the player faction, but the npc faction) who try to get a capital ship that they dont deserve or that's oorp for them to use. I.e. the dozens of mercs running around new york with liberty gunboats - not acceptable IMO, no matter how mass-produced those ships are.

The main point of having to ask is just so that the player faction 'in charge' knows who has what, and that you have good reason to use that ship.

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