So are IDs ooRP or inRP?

[Nodoka Hanamura]

To append on Gabi's statement, there are times where factions may be heavily affiliated with, but not be part of a proper ID. These can tend be part of more 'open' IDs - things like the Pirate ID, Zoner Militant ID, Freelancer ID, things like that - but can really be applied to any ID if the RP tracks enough.

Going based off of ID and ID alone isn't what I'd consider being good practice - even the IFF can be decieving. Ouroboros time and time again got mistaken for Zoners, when yes, we used the militant ID - because it provided the most flexibility for the stage in the RP we were in at the time. I don't expect everyone to know every factag, especially given that... embarassingly Ouroboros has yet to have a modernized faction page (I'm working on this.). We're moving to a BD ID to prepare for formally going open, but that's besides the point.

Someone playing to an ID is at least expected to be vaguely close to the ID's purpose and roles. There is no reason an unlawful faction would be using a DSE ID. A DSE-funded logistics startup, yes. A Zoner logistics firm out of Gran Can using a Zoner ID, is also valid.

I do have to concur that an ID isn't really good practice for inRP use. Faction Tags to my knowledge, are also inRP and demarcate a 'IFF subcode' that supercedes or appends to the code provided on an IFF response. When you Tenshi, as Maria Uhmen at the helm of the Akhetaten, are observing your FCO's station and see two TFP ships roll up, your immediate thought, given you know by now what TFP *is* - is to respond "Great, more Prometheans", and not "Great, more Technocrats." She's seen them before - she knows that they're not exactly part of the Auxesian paramilitary.

With that out of the way, however: players doing the above and completely disregarding a player's efforts to play a covert Wild are, obviously, being dicks.

I have always historically treated those playing Wild ID as it says on their IFF - their IFF response code is either malformed, expired or invalid. Something isn't exactly right with this ship, be it Raspelbock and two brainwashed Freelancers rolling up on Barrier Gate in RhGunboat, another gunboat and a fighter, or Cipriano Adimari out in the Taus. It also comes down to how your character *personally* would react.

Mieko, in the former situation, knew right away that the Raspelbock was an infectee. This was after years of time out in Omicron Delta, where dealing with nomad thralls is sadly not an uncommon experience - especially as part of Wild/Nomad raiding groups. The signs were very clear, and she knew it wasn't human - especially when it started blasting psionic suggestions at people.

Cipriano was much more.. subversive - nothing explicitly gave him away during a TFP encounter with him in the Taus, though Mieko was more occupied with seeing a KOI operator getting smeared across time and space for personal reasons.

Blasting a Wild ID'd ship just because it comes back malformed alone, isn't enough justification in my eyes. They either need to be rocking nomad tech, be acting in a way that can be deemed as flagrant infectee behavior, or otherwise know that the ship is piloted by an infectee.

Now with the advent of IFF spoofing for Wild IDs, it will allow for more covert activity by the Wild, something I feel is long overdue and will help with their naturally subversive goals.

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