BAF with Pirate ID's ?

[Gemini893]

My whole point, if anyone cared to look for it, was not to whine but to point out one basic flaw in the logic of having BAF pirates. In this very thread they say they make demands from everyone, whether they're hauling cargo or not, whether they're holding Kusari IDs or not. That is basic and pure piracy. Ironically I was accused of OORP today because I held a Zoner ID (look it up, they're described as neutral on the WIKI) and flying a Liberty Gunboat.

This whole BAF piracy thing is nothing more than OORP. Either you're lawful or you're not. If you're a pirate then you should be flying pirate ships, NOT lawful naval ships. It's nothing more than an excuse to have better ships than other pirates.

If you're lawful then you don't demand things of anyone other than those breaking the law. Law biding traders go on their merry way, unhindered. Only pirates make demands of law biding traders. Pirates are, in the essence of this role playing game, not lawful.

I don't care how "approved" they are by lawful BAF holding lawful IDs or by the admins, they're still nothing more than pirates allowed to use better ships than pirates are supposed to by the established role play of this game. They also set the precedent that those outside of a house military are allowed to use gunboats.

Which way will it be? Either Zoners can use house gunboats, just like these pirates do, or nobody but navy and police of any given house are able. You can't bend role play for one small group of players and continue to say no to others. There is no balance in that.

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