So are IDs ooRP or inRP?

[Tenshi]

I'm quite confused. On the server rules themselves, the linked post about metagaming & powergaming on it's own is out of date, as it lists that thrusters are something your character sees inRPly, when the staff has made an announcement that thrusters and engines are purely cosmetic. (That is at least the part I am focusing on atm, there might be more sections of it that are outdated)

So as far as the only official writeup I can find in the server rules goes, IDs are considered inRP. If that is truly so then why do commands such as /freelancer exist to spoof your IFF? Additionally, what are infected ships supposed to do when they have a Wild/Wild Equivalent ID installed? I remember a few years ago there used to be an exception in the rules about Wild factions being able to use different IDs because it fit their roleplay but even that is gone now.

It seems like there's people who fanatically believe that IDs are ooRP and call you out when you refer to their IDs as inRP, and then there's a different group of people who believe IDs are inRP and should be treated inRP.

How is such a thing not defined in the rules?

EDIT: Quickest edit of the wild west here, but can we also please address stuff like "Boorman Treaties" that are being thrown out as apparently existing things that we should just /know/ about either because it was briefly mentioned during flying to waypoint 4.3 of mission 6.7 of the campaign by some rando' (35 years ago, btw) or because it's hidden somewhere in some ingame news article or bar rumor? How is it considered valid and acceptable roleplay for someone to walk up and tell a Vice Admiral of the Navy that theyre uneducated for not knowing what the Boorman Treaty is purely because the player behind that character has <never> seen that thing mentioned before, as it literally does not exist anywhere?

Yes, I'm obviously referring to the on-going tensions between Liberty and Kusari, and I'm also obviously referring to the various people who have mentioned the term "Boorman Treaty" as something that apparently exists. How does a treaty exist when it's not in the Laws charter? Are we making up treaties now? What else will we start making up?

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