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Also remember that you can buy every ship in the game except for a few select ones.

The SCRA and Nomad ships are only for those in their Player factions (NPC faction being the faction in the game, with the player faction merely being a group of players who roleplay as a group in that npc faction)
The player factions for those are the SCRA (Oddly enough) and the Keepers.

The Necrosis, the Barge and the Kusari Royal thingymajig are all also restricted, only Admin given.

Apart from that, the ID states what you can and can't fly in terms of ship class (Fighter, bomber, battleships etc) while this:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=39532
Will show you what you can use or fly as part of that NPC faction.

On a more basic side:
Everyone is in a faction apart from Freelancers, Miners, Pirates etc, the generic IDs.
All other ID's are faction ones. Using one means you are part of that NPC faction. You aren't part of the player faction just for having the ID though.
You are expected to only use the ships,equipment etc that that NPC faction could use, hence the chart above showing who can use what.

Sorry if this is confusing, I probably worded it terribly:P

All in all, Welcome:)

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