Ok, Unseelie, Tenacity and everyone who's strongly against this new suggestion:
what do you suggest instead?
I agree with Xoria on what he said. In addition, I don't see why it's repeated again and again that we are opening more possibilities for abuse. Why are you so confident that everyone who buys ships larger than a freighter is a potental PvP whore and rule breaker?
Independent players who are neutral with appropriate faction guards should be allowed to get into the guard systems to stuff necessary for their playing. I don't see anything wrong with it. The access might be restricted to stations where universally accessible equipment is located, but you can't just universally prohibit people from entering guard systems of their own faction.
500 million payment was introduced to avoid dozens of useless faction creation requests that we received. I still remember how it was back when there was no payment at all. People got disapproved by all admins and finally bombed me with PMs about absurd faction concepts that would never gain any support from players. They didn't even want this support, just small groups of individuals who wanted a specific tag and status on them. Now, when people have to pay, they at least have to think before proposing the new faction concepts. At least for the /brief/ period of time when they are collecting those 500 million.
