Rules over RP.

[sovereign]

Indeed, HUMANS shouldn't pilot it, but that's not the case here, just an AI who happens to have a Zoner Guard ID for convenience. If you'd ask me, he became the victim of a jealous cry-baby who just reports people for kicks.

The Nomad Gunboat shouldn't be piloted by humans either, but since I'm RPing a Nomad it should be fine. While I'm waiting for the special RP request to go through I'll just fly it with a pirate ID. Sounds good, right?


The only difference I see here is that you can buy the Harvester Cruiser without admin help (an unfortunate oversight, in my opinion, but that's another story). Other than that, it's just like the Barge, the Necrosis, etc...


The idea of the special RP request is that you have to prove yourself before getting access to things. Getting access to things and then finding out if its okay is, um, silly. If the admins decided to deny your request, what then? An "unworthy" person got to fly the ship for a month or so anyway?

RP first, ship later. Sometimes it can catch people with good intentions, but without it... well, I've heard a few stories about when all Nomad ships could be bought publicly and the Mercenary ID allowed battleships. In the name of freedom.

If you keep a good attitude, ask nicely, and have the RP to justify the ship, they'll let you out to RP your pretty Harvester Cruiser. If not, then too bad, you shouldn't be flying the ship.

On a related note, about the comment how you can't pick a different ship while in Bastille- tell them what ship you want to change to, convince them you're sorry for the misunderstanding, and they'll beam you there. If you try to pull a fast one on them then you can expect to rot in Bastille for a long time.



I do think that the ship should have big red letters at the top saying "AI ID only" like the Barge has for "DO NOT DOCK WITH PLANETS". I took a look at the infocard with FLEd-ids and couldn't tell it required a special RP request. As such, I don't think they should rip your guns off or fine you for not knowing and stuff like that, but dropping you in Bastille until you can tell them what's up is the right move. Letting you fly a restricted ship without going through the process everyone else does just because of a small pool of "good impressions" (which do not appear to be unanimous, if I might add) would be a bigger abuse of power than gently keeping you from flying a ship you shouldn't have... by a long shot. Sorry that you didn't know, but from what you've said it looks like the closest thing to an admin mishap here is that you were able to buy the ship in the first place.



EDIT: Special RP requests appear to be back in business, on at least a small scale. A few of them have been approved in the past week or so, it's worth a try. If your RP is as good as you say, you shouldn't have a problem- especially with the blessing of the Harvesters.

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