Open Coalition ID

[Mímir]

Though I'll raise a finger at your notion concerning new players. There's cynicism and then there's blind antipathy and coupled with a robust appetite for demonization.

I wouldn't go that far, and it certainly wasn't my intention to demonize or point fingers at anyone. I myself is something in-between having played for a while on-and-off and never joining any factions, so you probably know better about the effect of registries than I.

Maybe it is cynical, but I do feel that the level of excellence (and hereby I don't necessarily mean lengthy RP-backgrounds etc., but rather the courtesy to at least respect that someone else is trying to RP with you, to have some form of knowledge of your faction's background and aims and playing that out in the game and so on) has dropped, and that there is a lot of animosity both in-game and on the forums.

I think an open tiered system, where you have regular indies with all ships up to and including gunboats, then a capship registry with very few limitations and then the official factions at the top could work as an incentive to promote higher standards for all. Yes for some that have played this game for a long time as indies, it would feel as a restriction, but for newer players I think it could be kind of neat having something to work towards at your own pace, and knowing that you must at least be able to type English and so on if you want that Dreadnought.

By making a registry mandatory everyone will know that sooner or later they will have to adhere to certain standards (again, very basic stuff like typing in English, drafting a character background etc.), and that they might as well start "behaving" right away. If you start from scratch it is going to take you quite a while to afford a capship anyways, so you would be free to learn the ropes and lol around like we all have (I have at least) all you want before being able to get it.

EDIT: Sorry, I know this is all pretty much off-topic, I just think it could counter the problems that some fear with a new open Coalition ID (which we don't know what will allow yet, so maybe the "fear" isn't grounded).

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