Feedback: Maquis Front de Libération de Gallia

[Front de Libération de Gallia]

Official ID proposal added to Official faction creation request.

After sufficient roleplay for battleship usage and repair is collected we will try to work with admins and propose the ID changes for the entire NPC faction. This will be our priority. Failing that, the indie ID will keep it's cargo and engagement lines on cruisers, and we will request the limited battleship access for the OF should we ever become official.


This Gallic Unlawful ID is used by members of the Front de Libération, who:

- Cannot use ships with more than 4300 cargo space.

Within Zone of Influence (Gallia, systems directly bordering Gallia, Taus)

- Can attack any ship.

- Can demand cargo.

- Can use cruisers only to attack combat ships.

- Can use battleships only to attack combat ships in Gallia, systems bordering Gallia and Roussillon.

Reasoning
Canon
The core Maquisards that raid for resources and openly blow up Union collaborating civilians using terrorist plots never had access to, or means of, operating capital vessels of the cruiser class and bigger. Almost the entirety of the cruiser and higher class ships is courtesy of freshly defected Ex-Council military staff and commanders that didn't join The Maquis in the earlier years, and in turn wouldn't be very good at, or used to, "alternative" extremist means like the oldschool core Maquisards are.

The Maquis also possess a fully functioning, albeit old and arguably only hastily repaired and therefore relatively weak Battleship Pamiers. We also plan on trying to get 1-2 more old bustled together old Ex-Council battleships through various roleplay means into our lore, and propose a repair, re-assembly (not production) capable drydock added to Maquis' Roussillon base that can cater to battleships.

These weaker old battleships would make little sense to be used outside of the Gallic Lawful's sphere of influence, and Cruiser and Battlecruiser class would be used if the Maquis Tau bases really needed to be defended. It would be extremely unlikely that e.g. Pamiers would move to Tau-29 or Tau-31 to attack The KNF.

Gameplay
We believe cargo demands and ability to openly attack any transport should be reserved to own transports and the gunboat class and smaller, in line with the original Maquis ID. It gives traders a chance to fight back, forces cooperation. And since monetary demands are not allowed on the ID anyways, capital vessel users will not lose out on much in terms of ability of gaining resources for themselves.

We also will be proposing access to Redemption class battleships after roleplay that started weeks ago concludes, side by side with the above considerable nerf for all capital vessels - main technical reason is regional balance - there is no unlawful faction with access to battleships in core Gallia, except hostile Outcasts in a couple systems. For this and canon reasons, Redemptions would be only allowed to engage combat ships in Gallic Lawful Zoi and the Maquis controlled Roussillon.

This can potentially impact the entire NPC faction, so again any feedback is welcome.

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