Reminder to traders: plan for a new ID

[beander2]

You miss the point, he won't be BMM tagged or ID'd. People will simply not fly ID'd that put their trading at significant risk. They don't do it now, they won't do it with the new ID's.

This doesn't mean the player's free to trade anywhere. If s/he is no longer BMM-tagged or -ID'd, then s/he has to be something else. It isn't giving up a tag/ID for total freedom, but rather trading one tag/ID for another, which means trading one set of RP diplomacy for another set. This is perfectly fine if a trader wants to "switch companies," as it were, but most won't do it every time they want a different route because of the rep-fixing it requires to switch.

Therefore, power-trading is mitigated by making the rep-switching a bit more laborious, and making it so that a player is responsible to a particular set of RP commitments at any given time, even if s/he switches between sets from time to time.

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar