System claims...

[f2k]

And why should some players be able to decide, whether or not other players should be restricted to a few select factions to get something called home? ;)

There should be room for us all. Both those that want a place of their own to control, and people who just want to peacefully fly where they want, and others for that matter.

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I can see your point, but unfortunately these two are exact opposites. You want to tax any player entering your system I want to be left alone. So now what happens? Should you be allowed to tax me, or should I be allowed to pass through your system without incident? Either way, one of us will be unhappy

In the end, I think that FireBirds suggestion makes good sense. Let faction players fight it out, and leave the rest of us alone.

I suppose that if characters joined a faction, other characters (level 30 and more) of same account are also involved, especially higher-level traders that are used for earning money. So if Dab knew who you are, I suppose that he had a right to do what he did in this case.

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Just to play the Devils Advocate. What happens if I have two characters: f2k-trader and f2k-mean_pirate, and I decide to join the Traders Guild? With your suggestion, that would mean that my pirate is now also a part of the Traders Guild and that makes no sense at all!

I agree that players should not be allowed to use a freelance trader to earn money for their faction characters, but forcing all of a players characters into the same faction is just no doable.
But on the other hand, I also understand that it would be impossible to check whether or not a player is using a freelancer trader to earn money for a faction

Hmm, what to do

How about only enforcing this rule for characters with similar reputation? That is, all characters with a lawfull reputation can be in one faction and all characters with a pirate reputation can be in another. No more, no less.
Is this even feasible? Can you make a program that checks this, or would it have to be done manually?

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