Admin Notice: Ship purchase restrictions

[farmerman]

Ok, first of all, I think we can all agree that stopping red cell purchases as well as ship types not allowed by ID is a good thing. For the white cell area, it seems to get trickier (see also: this thread). So for an alternative, is something like the following possible?

When a player goes to buy a ship that would otherwise be white to their ID, the system would do two things. First of all, it would check rep and require it to be above a certain amount. This should be rather easily obtainable (and probably would already be there just from being allies) for most things, but a bit trickier for ships that would require guard rep (thinking capships in this regard primarily). After purchase, you get a little warning message telling you that you may need faction approval, gives a link for it, and requires a confirmation (something like /acceptship). If you don't and try to do something else, you get kicked and don't get the ship; If you do, you're all set. This way there can be no one saying that they are ignorant of the rules.

With this then, for example, an LWB pilot wanting an Arbeiter would only need some small Unioner rep, which would be simple as LWB and Unioner reps are linked. A Hessian wanting to get a Scylla, on the other hand, would require a bit more work. Both need permission still and would have to confirm.

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