Consultation: Revised system for official factions

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Also with incognito/untagged characters? These are mainly done to prevent meta (especially when ur doing piracy) but this seems to do away with it?

I don't think anything really changes about untagged characters. An untagged ship is just not part of the faction and cannot make use of an OF ID or any of the perks that OF has that are specific to itself. That's already the case. "Under the hood" it can still be the same character/person, I don't think there are any rules against that.

Otherwise incognito characters are accounted for, as you'll note that the roster can include purely ship and character names with no player mentioned.

While deployed, an FDS extends any ID with a matching IFF’s ZOI to the system it resides in.

With regards to the FDS, this seems to be a line people are glossing over. This, rather than PoB mechanics, is the main use-case. BAF could drop it on Dublin, a Rheinland faction could dabble a little further into the Sigmas than usual, etc. This is also a perk designed to not require much staff workload, as deployment would be done by players. Abuse would, of course, have to be handled by staff, but we're obviously hoping to not have to have abuse concerns by the Pillars Of The Community™ at the top of our mind when designing perks.

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