Terrorist ID: Is it even needed?

[AJBeast]

It is needed for this simple reason: Not all role-play fits into the idea of demanding actual items in the game. Take Walter Layton. He demands a varying assortment of items: Life support components, hands, ears, legs, and other items which my imagination has yet to create.

The Terrorist ID is a unique item, that offers a unique role-play: The power to attack whoever you want whenever you want, so long as it fits your role-play and you actually role-play it out.

Don't take away ma Terrorist Tiger Shark, it would make me a sad panda.

However, the window separating killing without demands from what we like to describe blatant PvP whoring is rather slim and honestly I've yet to see one that fits in said window. Even the Phantoms demand things. They demand that you dance. They demand that you rip a limb off. Care to show me a situation in which you do not make any demands and still need to kill someone? Excluding deathly nemesis, situation which I believe is covered in a Special Operative ID/Appropriate IFF combination.

Well yeah as Sandvich Thief put it, I support the idea of keeping the ID, I think it allows for a broader Role-Play that the Pirate ID or the Vigilante ID can't fulfill. If you ask me what exactly, that is pretty hard to state since it depends on the character in question. But generally its about killing stuff, in a rather imaginative way. Although that does not mean people carrying Pirate ID aren't imaginative, like the Joker for example, good fella.

Same as what I told Tom. Show me a specific situation in which not needing to make demands is necessary.

There always needs to be a level of danger prevalent everywhere in sirius. Pirates must demand cargo or credits, they cant scratch your trader otherwise. Pirates are also limited to gunboat or lower class ships when doing any sort of pirating.

Joker and his thugs were, more or less, using a loophole to create characters which could attack any lawful on sight, they didnt often pirate, so they werent really playing their ID's like they should have. A lot of unlawfuls are like that - an unlawful or pirate ID lets you readily pvp with any lawfuls you find, regardless of whether you're actually pirating or not.

Terrorist ID's are somewhat like the 'indy' version of the wilde, phantoms, and keepers. They can go anywhere, fly most ships, and are designed specifically for the purpose of creating fear by letting people know that they can and will attack even without reason. Space is not run by rules, sure you may have server rules or the laws of the houses, but there is danger everywhere, and the terrorists exist to remind you of that fact. Far too many traders and other characters in disco act smug and comfortable when they shouldnt.

The keepers, wilde, and phantoms have similar purpose. They dont care what ship you're flying or what you're doing, if they feel like killing you, you're gonna get killed. Of course, keepers are encouraged to be more selective in our killing than the other groups, but you get the point =P

So, in your opinion, the dozens of pirate factions, the hundreds of pirate indies, the wars, the corruption (in-RP of course) do not make Sirius dangerous enough? Do we need the Terrorist ID for the simple fact that people are not afraid enough?

I guess I saw this coming. I should have placed a bet.
I feel terrorist ID is needed, because not everything fits in the other ID's especially lawful ones.

I had extreme fun roleplayting today as well as wtfpwning those that start rule lawyering me after i fire the first shot.

I also feel that under my roleplay (explained to admins) I have a need for a terrorist ID. and the concept is much much bigger than "ahaha lets kill all that moves" (i actually dont target more than few people)

But at the point in my roleplay a moment came where I wanted to do things normal Id's don't allow me.
And quite frankly, I feel that being granted this ID means that my rp was approved by admins. And that means good deal since they do make the game run.
As for Mentira: It's a frikkin pirate transport. I have 2 bil on my account. I pirated 80mil in 10 minutes when Ore wasnt even in game. I surely am not getting it to get 3k goods from someone every time.

As I said, 90% of the people. If your roleplay is not as so then congratulations. One thing to note though, what you write may not be what you transmit in-game. I've seen many terrorists with a encyclopedia-sized forum RP written down that doesn't reflect in their in-game actions at all.

Also, tell me exactly how does a regular ID restricts what you would like to do with your character, aside from wtfpwning those who break the rules?

Also victimizing yourself does not help this discussion in any way.