The Wild & Their Privileges

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I did not have my Fae within the Order, that would not make any sense, but I could fly around them and laughing at them for their "deluded fanatism" and they could not do anything to reveal me if I did not want it.

The Order is forced to fly with their tags openly, but Wilds aren't. How's that fair? How's that even fun for the Wilds?

Anyone can rat on a character regardless of affiliation. People don't need to be an Order to be suspect of something. Also, I think saying that only the Order can exclusively weed out compromised individuals is suspect. You are aware that the Order aren't the only threat, but rather everyone and anyone? Wilds don't really have allies.

It'd be nice if Intel IDs, or at least, let the rules allow intel ID based characters to have undercover alts that are generic like for FL ID etc

I think you're overlooking something very obvious.

If I see a "5th" or a "46th" ship online on the server, I know what they are. I can log in a Rogue, Xeno, Hacker or whatever and fly at them and, potentially, have some good old Pee-Vee-Pee.
The same is true for a Corsair faction being easily recognizable for an Outcast player or faction to log for and fly towards. And so on, and so forth.

And it doesn't just have to be PvP. It can be whatever roleplay is appropriate for the character you feel like playing. But you kind of know what you're dealing with ahead of time.

There is only one (official, tagged) faction that is exempt from this system and that's Fae. I cannot log in an Order ship in response to seeing Fae ships flying around, and do what an Order ship should: hunt them down. Fae can simply point at their ID and go "nonono mister Order, I am a flawlessly unrecognizable perfect infectee, and you'd be POWERGAMING if you attacked me!". This sucks, and is a little bit ironic, as by doing so they themselves are powergaming.

It doesn't help that in my experience the only Wild faction left spends vastly more time on non-Wild ID ships than they do on Wild ID ships, depriving a faction like Order of content. It just feels really bad to know your natural enemy faction, the whole birthright of your own faction, is around quite a bit but entirely out of reach.

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