Should official factions have more power?

[Spear]

Spear ... you might wanna sit down for this ... I actually agree with you ...:)

I've got no problem with official factions like house lawfuls having more control of their houses. I fully support them having the authority to role play as their lawful NPC's do. For example ... Liberty Navy, LPI, LSF, etc should have authority to uphold the laws of Liberty.

My objection comes when these official factions stray from their role play as the official faction and start adding new laws that really do not exist in traditional freelancer. Merc bans are crap ... embargo's might work ... ship bans are crap too. I've got a Civilian ID on a vessel that you purchase in Rheinland ... but the infocard of the ship states it is of "unknown" origin. Banning me from Liberty because I fly a ship you think is a Rheinland vessel is crap. So ... to gain my full support on this issue ... guidelines need to be established that the official factions only have the authority that the NPC's they role play have. In other words ... no flipping merc bans. Making me into an unlawful simply because I have a Merc ID is total crap. Go after the guys that violate Liberty laws (or whatever house you are) ... but don't freaking ban an ID because a few guys and gals are being jerks.

EDIT: With great power comes great responsibility.

It was a good job I was sitting down lol! See we can find common ground even when we seem to be polar opposites!

Just to nitpick your post because I am sad, if you are a "Civillian ID" in a Rhienland ship then you can't be touched:D

The merc ban was enforced in Rheinland before Liberty adopted it, in both cases it was more hassle than it was worth. The embargo has good RP basis but again, given the ratio of unlawful's to lawful's at the moment it's impossible to enforce, I rarely jump on my Xeno these days because the law men are already being ganked, which makes me sad, I used to enjoy attacking Liberty with odds against me, and to be honest I am of the opinion that house forces should be stronger than unlawful's. I know I am a well established lawful player, but I am also a well established unlawful one, hell my forum name is named after my first and fav char here, a Xeno.

I'm going to disagree on the ship ban issue you raise though, Rheinland combat ships in Liberty and Liberty combat ships in Rheinland have to be viewed with suspicion under the current RP.

*Swinging back on-topic: Not a bad idea Korrd, although I personally do favour 1 official faction per NPC group, and that effects me, I am in several factons that are duplicates, for example XG, I would favour XG being merged into the XA instead of a Xeno council.

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