Well I have just end to read all your posts and............
I see that Josh have already answered your questions so Im not going to answer each one individually again, but I think that I need to clarify some things.
The Guild of Shadows propose is to give support to all the friendly pirates factions (I mean LR, LH, OC and all their allies) and to establish a pirates army that seek the pirates benefice. And make some save smuggling routes for the pirates, who need to maneuver with a train, just to save their cargo and their lives. Something that is really annoying in my point of view.
Also I think that the actual pirate factions are not enough to face the Liberty lawful factions.
Why am I saying this?
Because I have been playing for a long time as a pirate pilot, but I dont see any one that stand up in front of a LSF (for example), including the members of the unlawful factions.
Also talking about the capital ship battles, I think that is something that is necessary at disco, because the most of the players with a battleship lose the spark when getting a battleship, so we are also trying to add some fun to disco
And finally answering the IDs question
Well I dont think that its a problem to have three different kinds of IDs at the GoS, I think that this can give us a bigger influence zone, the plan was to get our own ID but that is more difficult.
And no Shadowjman if you decide to be a LH, LR or OC its your choice you wouldnt have to answer to the other factions as well.
any other question ask here or at my SKYPE acount (arc.dragon)