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[Megaera]

All of this kind of reminds me of a GC-iffed Freelance-IDed person I met in Texas the other day.

[03.03.2023 19:56:30] Samura|-Tampopo-Maru: // hi. are you aware you have a GC iff with a freelancer ID?
[03.03.2023 19:56:40] Yellowfin: // Yes.
[03.03.2023 19:58:03] Yellowfin: // A lot of people ask me that. Just curious, but do you also ask the million Zoner or Freelancer IFF 5ks the same?
[03.03.2023 19:59:09] Samura|-Tampopo-Maru: dont remember seeing a million of them, or even 1

Wondering if that's also Loki or if the similarities are coincidental.

Either way, the "YOU CANT HAVE THAT GEAR ONLY I CAN HAVE IT SO NOW I KILL YOU PEW PEW PEW" issue has been a re-occurring theme in disco, and one person posting a thread about it here is really just the tip of the iceberg of something that goes on with many if not most noobs, and has without a doubt caused many a player to turn away from disco before even hitting the forums.

I remember having the same problem around 2007-2008 when my nomad-gunned Freelance Raven's Claw got shot by nomad-gunned LSF Raven's Claws in New York, because its legal for them but not for me, and me getting very mad about it.

Thing is the Freelancer SP campaign teaches you the aim of the game is to get the coolest stuff that your ship can carry, and all you need to do is get the right rep to land on the base that sells it, or scoop it up in space.

Disco could be doing a much better job at teaching noobs what to expect if they play like that, before they meet LSF or Corsair "law enforcement".

It could do a better job at keeping "irp laws" more liberal so this stuff happens less, so the game becomes more intuitive for "SP campaing veterans".

It could do a better job at telling people to be more tolerant of each other (in this case both the TBH guys and Loki could have been) instead of saying "everybody must be excellent", which kind of has the opposite effect.

And it could do a better job at actually working on all these issues instead of just saying "oh well the problem is people just arent excellent enough, so its on them".

Yellowfin has RPed for that ship with the Official faction and has been approved by us.
I have personally put in the player request to give that Freelancer access to the GC tech.

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