Pirate IDs....

[teschy]

Every ID has its flaws. This one has that everything in Sirius has a carpet bounty on it.
Anyway, point still stands, Pirate ID is for Pirates. Not Terrorists. Pirates Pirate. Not attack lawfuls.

Well, if you put it that way, the whole ID system is flawed and there's little we can do about it, judging from the dev feedback. To be honest, the ID should only give you basic guidelines, not rules to follow engraved in stone. And pirates do attack lawfuls, because they take unlawful bounties on them. Makes perfect sense for me, a pirate is basically one mercenary that went too far, and is denied docking rights on pretty much every 'lawful' outposts and planets.

If you know the Fallout karma system, you might consider the Freelancer ID representing the good karma of the character, the Mercenary ID being the neutral karma, and the Pirate ID obviously the bad karma.

That's pretty much the only way of thinking about the ID systems, because otherwise you would just use it as a metagaming tool.