Why cant anyone use their own equipment?

[Tenacity]

Can we put in a rule saying that faction-specific weapons (weapons with a faction named in the title) can only be used by that faction, or their -direct- allies? This is primarily concerning capships...

Rheinland turrets should only be used by rheinland military/police vessels.
Liberty turrets should only be used by liberty navy / lsf / lpi vessels.
Kusari turrets should only be used by KNF / KSP / hogosha / AFA vessels.
Bretonian turrets should only be used by BAF/BAP vessels.
ORDER turrets should only be used by Order vessels!

Now, mentioning direct allies, the order are considered allied with the corsairs, zoners, and hogosha. That means those three factions can use order capship turrets in situations where their RP requires such.

Primarily, im getting tired of seeing people who are nuetral, or even hostile, to the order... using order turrets just because they do a couple more damage per second than most others.


I think one of the biggest issues on this server right now is that EVERYONE wants to be trent, everyone wants to be juni, everyone wants to be von claussen... everyone wants to be the superhero instead of playing like the normal joe schmoe they're intended to be. Everyone wants some special ninja-pirate-wizard RP with weapon, equipment, and ship setups that make no sense whatsoever.

Now, I understand that it can be a bit boring to play bretonian police patrol #17, but thats really what we need (well, hypothetically speaking...). Some special RP is ok here and there, but when 90% of the server is composed of infected people, cyborg supermutants, and black forces spec ops agents that can kill you with a sock, it doesnt exactly make for a realistic universe.

I dont see any reason whatsoever to use ships or equipment from another faction when your own faction has ships of the same class, and equipment of the same type, available.

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