' Wrote:Frankly i'm in favour of this and it is long overdue. Also, I am in favour of general restrictions towards so-called independents. Get it through your heads! There is no such thing as an independent member of a nation's military, police or security agency, not in freelancer, not in real life, not anywhere. You take orders from the official chain of command or you die like the obvious traitor you are. End of story.
If you want to be an independent, go get a mercenary or Freelancer ID, but even then you still have to obey the officially constituted chain of command of the House military/police/security forces. If you carry a Liberty Navy ID, you're in the Liberty Navy, so act like it, suck it up and take orders.
Of course, that's just my take on things:)
Amen, Kuraine. Independant military players should only be allowed in the event no faction for that military exists. I doubt this will be the case for some time. But what you have just said is so many kinds of true.
Now that the Liberty Navy is unified again, I shall be scrapping my indie Navy character in his crummy Starblazer.