Newbie Question: Neutral IDs

[Yngen]

Moot point guys, the Whale IS A TRANSPORT ... You cannot use it with a neutral ID, ok ... So lets move on
with this one shall we.
Carthartic attacked the Behemoth thinking it would have a trader ID, and almost rightly so. Eared read the
ship stats thinking it was a freighter, which in its original form, of course, it is.
Both are right, both are wrong ... Move along, nothing to see here now, especially you Red ...

Hoodlum

C'mon Hood, you of all people know how vague this rule is. Look at this:

Since it was infact a whale with a nuetral ID that was attacked, not a Behemoth:

"GT-1 "Whale" Heavy Freighter

Design of the Whale was compiled by GMG engineers and later sold to different ship building corporations throughout Sirius. Whale is not a large ship as its name suggests, but it is able to carry more goods than most other transports can take aboard. This ship is rarely dispatched on longer trade routes because of its limited defensive capabilities: slots for turrets and equipment are lacking to save space for generous cargo hold"

If its a transport, the name needs to be changed. If not, the description needs to be changed.

We can't "move on" until we get a rules/mod update. Otherwise we will keep having this problem over and over again. Just like we have the same problems with other vague rules over and over again.

"Moving on" without doing something about the problem is laziness, waiting for people to naturally come to their senses or use common sense in situations like this is wishful thinking. We need very clear rules on what people are allowed to do.

I understand not wanting volumes of rules. But we don't need to have a large list of rules to be clear on what is allowed, just better writing.

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