So are IDs ooRP or inRP?

[Petitioner]

Disclaimer: This post is my personal opinion and advice, and should not be read as some kind of staff ruling on the matter.

You should, as a matter of courtesy if nothing else, always assume that someone is (or at least is trying to present as) whatever their IFF says. Whether IDs are technically, rules-wise, considered inRP knowledge or not, if you look at someone's ID and treat them as such, when they're putting effort into inRP presenting as something else, when there's no other reasonable cause to suspect they are their "truly" a member of their ID's faction and not their IFF's (eg, KuWild flying full native Kusari tech with a KNF IFF, given away solely by their ID), I personally am going to call your roleplay low-effort and suspect you're mostly just hunting for blues, or trolling, or both.

You're right that it's a little unfair to expect everyone to remember everything from the campaign, but Digital Anvil was never going go into huge depth about the contents of various treaties (such as the Boorman) anywhere in vanilla because the very genre of the game as it was released makes it almost irrelevant, and the UI format would make it almost impossible to present in a comfortable way. However, in our RP-mandatory environment, such things have become relevant to us by our own choices. Just because the contents of the treaties aren't elaborated upon in detail does not mean we can't make reference to them in our RP. The game's canonical lore (both in vanilla and in Disco) also barely talks about life on planets at all but headcanoning stuff about that is important to have RP that isn't laughably shallow. For players like you and @"Kai Siegfried" who have never played the campaign, obviously you're going to miss out on a lot of stuff.

Finding a way to comfortably present the general contents of RP and worldbuilding fluff that had absolutely no serious relevance to the original campaign requires a very different set of skills from those that the dev team historically took as required for story developers, and while various players tried to take initiative and do it on their own without story backing over the years, the products they produced were very flawed in many ways -- writing up treaties is, in and of itself, a complicated endeavour and a unique skillset.

To specifically address the Boorman Treaty, my understanding is this:
- It was signed and ratified by all four (Sirian) Great Houses at least 150 years before the campaign started.
- It specifically prohibits war between the Great Houses.
- It prohibits House military installations in the Border Worlds, as that would impinge upon their designated function as buffer zones which are either neutral or over which sovereignty is shared.
- Niemann's Rheinland flagrantly violated these critical provisions of the Boorman Treaty (due to Nomad subversion), and the chaotic effect this had upon Sirian politics is still being felt to this day (835 AS).

Any specifics beyond the above are not, as far as I am aware, present in vanilla in any capacity at all whether express or implied (though we can always extrapolate from what vanilla gave us to come up with more specifics as they relate to our RP, within reason of course).

I hope Jammi gets out the aforementioned library post soon, because I absolutely love worldbuilding fluff and lore that deals with civilian life within Freelancer's universe -- and because it would probably go a long way to preventing the ingame incident that I believed spurred this thread.

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