ID Thoughts - Speak now

[eyvind]

Just to make a small post: I have never heard of a trading faction which has escorts online but no transports. In my experience it's always the other way around. I'm somewhat wary about the notion of supplying those "bored" pilots with the duty of roaming Sirius looking for mans to kill.

*resumes lurking*

First of all, corporation faction is not synonymous with trader faction. USI might be a trader faction since Universal, Inc. is a shipping corporation, but the distinction is important since most of the big corporations do more than just trade, even in a game-play sense.

I can only talk for Cryer since it's all I have experience in, but it happens with us all the time. I play my escorts more than my trader, and we have a couple of members who don't even have transports.

DSE doesn't have many escorts and I think the issues brought up here is a big reason for this. If there were less unreasonable restrictions on corporate IDs, I think DSE would see a rise in the number of escorts.

I have, however, often seen USI escorts online without the company of a trading ship.


Being wary about loosening restrictions on bored players seems a bit backward. I understand that you might fear them going crazy as soon as they have something to do, but I doubt they would -- or could -- ever reach the BHG's level of insanity. If people fulfilling bounty contracts causes problems I don't think restricting corporate ships is quite the answer you're looking for.

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