No I know about the rules and IDs thing, Dab, yes, but thing is, I don't think that, in 80% of cases, an ID's the main factor for deciding how to RP with someone.
Take smuggler and pirate IDs as a first and best example.
And also, say you see a pirate IDed player with a Corsair ship, Corsair equipment, and no tag, how'd you treat him?
I regularly get badgered in Gamma on one of my chars, despite it being a Corsair in RP, it's just not good for the char to have a Corsair ID, and I constantly get badgered by random Corsairs
trying to kill "the intruder".
And they ignore my behavior totally, and my loadout, and my ship, and everything I say basically.
That is why IDs are a metagaming thing, for rules alone, when RP can't cover it all.
They're not the Alpha and Omega.
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