(05-22-2025, 10:24 PM)Sand-Viper Wrote: But, I'm sitting here, scratching my head, as to why we need to enable every single faction that can "engage combat ships" within their ZoI, the ability to freely blow up more generalized ID'd transports such as Zoners and Freelancers, provided they can come up with some kind of vaguely/barely acceptable RP reason to do so.
Likely because people tend to abuse ID rules (like Zoners) for silent powertrading. Generally, when I log LSF, what I find is silent Zoner Whale powertraders. These people probably would be silently powertrading on Freelancer ID or a certain Corsair ID, except for the fact that Zoners are neutral to everyone, and so they never fall under the "hostile transports" part of those IDs. Watching enemy base suppliers go off scot free in hostile territory because they switched IDs at the border is annoying as shit, and also is a complete disregard of roleplay. Making pirates care about RP when the vast majority of powertraders don't care about RP is comically bad planning. While I think the best way to solve this is to just start making Zoners hostile to everyone, that would have what we in the business call "a poor reception".
In some cases like a less-recent Auxo double-sanction, these people supply bases with no or borderline no RP that serve these people's personal friend groups, and have nothing to do with RP. They use Zoner neutrality to force everyone to pirate them and never just engage them for oorp base supplying, and they'll even use specific faction's IDs to bypass factions that are in control of the area like literal cancers.
Being among the decent powertraders who don't do slimy things like this should be rewarded. However, the vast majority of powertraders are of the other disposition, with zero roleplay, zero care for the game, universe, and community, and serving only oorp benefits to their group of discord friends.
I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.
"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"
