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How's about this.


Guard systems!
Many stations.
- Public stations for all of the NPC factions players, independants and factions.
- Faction stations for only factions.
Both sell the same ships, equipment etc* but the faction can enforce laws on the faction stations.

Laws in the system would be decided by the faction players, but they cannot stop people from docking on the public stations to get equipment etc, as the rules state.


Outside of Guard systems!
'All of faction' Factions
- Control all of the ZoI of their NPC faction.
- Enforce RP laws and ensure people obey them. They cannot shoot independants etc who do not go along with their laws but they can shoot people belonging to any other NPC faction (Rp allowing, can't see allies blasting each other) if they do not obey the RP laws they set down. They cannot make OORP diplomatic decisions however (The [LN] attacking the [BAF] for the lulz, maybe for other reasons but would need damn good arguing)

'Wing/Fleet/Section of faction' Factions
- Control part of the ZoI of their NPC faction. They can do all of the above but only in their small section of ZoI. Can set the diplomacy for their group and thus their ZoI.


That ought to solve any issues with laws and diplomacy.



Now, you might wonder about the public and private stations in the guard systems.
It is essentially no different than the current system except there would be seperate stations, ones only for player faction players and ones for everyone in the NPC faction.
What point does this have you might ask.

Simple: Official factions can have a/many specialised ship/s or piece/s of equipment that can only be found on their stations and not on the others.
The ships or equipment may not be better than their normal counterparts but different, suiting their player faction's style etc (Some factions like to get into big brawls and like armour etc, others prefer quick attacks etc). That's another matter however.

You might scream 'Elitism!' but lets face it.
Official factions have spent 500 million credits buying this system. To what end? If everyone can travel to all the stations and places in the system, there is no reason to own the system. Yes it looks good and is impressive but that 500 million could be spent doing less (often) 'boring' trading and more time doing more 'RP' flying in their main characters, among plenty of other reasons.
Guard systems currently serve only to be pretty little trophies that are more like a hotel than a home for the player faction.

Give them something special to help, instead of clearly trouncing upon people.

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