ID Thoughts - Speak now

[Benjamin]

I am one of Eyvind's peers.

I want more PvP freedom in general for corporation IDs. The fact they have less freedom to shoot unlawfuls than freelancers is just weird and leads to terrible nonsense like corporations having to use freelancer IDs for their escorts. Makes no sense and goes against what the little vanilla NPCs do.

I would suggest the following two changes for corporation IDs:

Can fulfill lawful bounty contracts.
Can engage pirates/unlawfuls/whatever throughout their Zone of Influence.

They already have a weird piecemeal version of the second clause - normally the ability to do it in the corporation's house of origin, and then also in systems where they have bases, or similar. This is weird and implies behaviour that makes no sense (like Cryer trading all through Liberty, but then suddenly teleporting to Atka and Cambridge rather than flying there). The right to shoot up unlawfuls in their origin-houses implies an acceptance that it makes sense for them to do such things, but then not being able to do it in other houses makes it seem as though people don't realise that corporations actually have to travel to places to trade.

I really can't see any abuse coming out of this, since compared with freelancer/merc IDs (which corp escorts can -and some do- already use) it gets rid of the ability to attack lawfuls, gives you a bunch of enemies and massively restricts your ship/equipment usage. You can cry foul, but there is literally no way this change would result in pvpwhore corporation deathsquads. It would just give corporations the security they currently enjoy in their own house, in all the areas in which they trade, eliminating a weird distinction which makes no sense.

As for the accepting bounties suggestion: twofold.
One: It would give corp escorts something to do when there's nothing to escort (a situation which happens a lot). Fun for gameplay, would boost the playability of corporations (which is seemingly desired by the devs?)
Two: There's precedent for it in roleplay. If you surf Rheinland bar rumours, poor little Rheinland escorts talk about doing bounty jobs in their spare time to make ends meet.



Edit: to address zelot/dusty posts made whilst I was typing: To use Zelot's example, the Interspace guy can also not attack the GC if corp IDs don't change. Would this not also count as silly and a detraction from reality? Not to mention very lame and unfair for the corporate guy? He can be shot at by all unlawfuls, but he can literally be banned from the server for shooting them? This corp thing is just a part of that situation, just not looked at as much because of the lack of corp fighter pilots, which is partially caused by the said restrictions.

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