Why cant anyone use their own equipment?

[Tenacity]

Anyway, this is the making of a new trial by forum here. If you have a problem with people using turrets from a hostile faction, its cause to send in a report to the admins, not bring it up on the forums.

It isnt a trial by forum, because no names are mentioned. This is a general observation to which I think a new rule needs to be applied.

If your faction has equipment/ships of a specific type, dont use someone else's ships/equipment instead. If your faction has a VHF, dont use another faction's VHF. If your faction has cruiser turrets, dont use another faction's cruiser turrets. If your faction has a battleship, dont use another faction's battleship.

They should all fall under OORP ship/equipment unless approved in special character RP.

I think admins have been saying that for quite some time now. And the neutral people, you can't really do anything about that. They're neutral. No one is 'friendly' or 'allied' to civilians, yet countless people, you included, have been saying that civilian weapons are allowed to anyone, and Zoner weapons as well.

There are civilian and zoner weapons, and those should be used for 'nuetral' characters. I also am of the mind that bounty hunters should stick to zoner weapons, and at most use liberty/bretonian weapons if they absolutely must.

But i must add that another rule means another headache for the admins, another loophole ect ect. No need for new rules as they confuse people enough.

As I said, this really falls under the whole "Ships/equipment must be in-RP" rule, it just adds a bit of detail to the wording so that people actually pay attention.

I just dont see any reason to use someone else's ships or equipment when your own faction provides them, unless you have special RP that requires such equipment or vessels. As an example, after 4.85 is released the order will have a full set of capships - everything from gunboat to battleship. Now, do you see any logical reason why an order crew would use a corsair cruiser when the order has it's own cruiser available?

Or, as to the main reason i'm posting this in the first place, I saw a KNF tagged/ID'd player with an IMG gunboat and Order gunboat turrets today. Now, why would any KNF crew use a 'gaijin' ship? They have their own gunboat, which btw is far more powerful than the IMG gunboat - they also have their own weapons, and are not direct allies of the order. They would have no way of getting ahold of our weapons without our approval.

That player (indy, not a [KNF]) would have been far better off in a kusari gunboat with kusari gunboat turrets, both in pvp and rp.

I mean, i'm pretty sure the united states navy would get a little ticked off if our navymen decided to start using japanese or british ships instead of our own =P

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