An Outcast Trader?

[RParade]

The Train series is not a ship an unlawful flies. There's the Pirate Train and the Borderworld Transport for those purposes. Also, unlawful Traders are really more along the lines of Smuggler ID.

Eh, I disagree with this line of thought...


No smart smuggler is going to fly about in a vessel that screams, "HEY, I'M A CRIMINAL COME ARREST ME."

Most of the transport ships (including the Train series) are commercial vessels, they generally aren't restricted in any way, the only obstacle to obtaining one is finding someone who'll sell you one. If you can fork over 110 million for an Advanced Train, there's nothing stopping you regardless of your intent/tag/ID.

Moreover, I really dislike the idea of a Smuggler ID in general. It's wrong that a player can simply scan you and know by default who and what you are, and this is a problem that you find with all ID's. If you want to play a Navy officer who's managed to infiltrate the Lane Hackers, you can't do it without having a Navy ID mounted on your ship (or vice versa). ID's really impede upon RP since you're expected to act based upon which ID is mounted on a given ship, and as a character you're limited in what you can actually do in-game based upon which ID you're using yourself.

Personally I don't really see a problem with the occasional Zoner being an undercover smuggler, it actually strikes me as being the smarter way to do things. Aslong as the player actually makes an effort to blend in with Zoner society and does more than smuggling (IE: trading legally often so as to cover his darker deeds) then sure, go for it. Of course this smuggler should accept the consequences of his actions should he be caught, because it's never within RP to say "OMG I R ZONER U RULEBREKER!" Maybe since so many Zoners abuse their priviledges other factions could begin to look poorly upon the Zoner faction as a whole? Just because a player is essentially "cheating" by using a Zoner tag/IFF, that isn't to say that you can't capitolize off of his mistake by making something entertaining happen.

Personally, I just use a Smuggler ID so as to avoid bratty players from wigging out on me should they happen to catch me smuggling. *Shrug* That isn't to say I like doing it, though. Every lawful ship will always be eager to scan me first just because of the ID I have equipped, and not because they actually have reasonable suspicion of me and such.

The amount of people who scream about rules when attacked is absolutely absurd, honestly; it's a roleplaying atmosphere and so you should treat any given situation as if you were actually the character you're playing. The short version of this post would've basically been, "Hey, deal with in-game problems in-game, instead of ruining potential roleplay opportunities by whining about it in an OOC fashion on the forums."