Rep Fixing

[guitarguy]

So I'm rep fixing for another capship, and I started thinking, why do we need guard IDs? How does forcing a player to do forty or more missions in a VHF useful to the community? Let's run through the arguments for guard IFFs/IDs

1) This forces the player to experience the server RP before hopping in a shiny new capital.

Nope, rather than interact with other players, people who are rep fixing are thinking "How many more effing missions do I have to do?!?!" Plus, couldn't they experience RP while trading for credits?

2) It limits the number of capital ships.

Not really, anyone with the patience to do the missions and trade (or has a friend with credits) can get one.

In my humble opinion, we should do away with guard IDs and go back to the 4.84 way of doing it. (Standard ID gives you access to all of a faction's ships.) If you want a guard IFF, fine, but let's not make those of us who want to stop doing missions and start RPing waste time with missions.

Thoughts? I'll answer any other arguments for keeping guard IDs as well.

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