Actually, I have to agree with RMorph and the others. Nomads were, are and always have been a major part of vanilla freelancer and as Discovery Mod is based on this, it should have continued that.
The whole Gallia thing is another discussion but Ophidian already has explained my point of view quite well about.
Anyway, coming back to the theme:
As I see how the idea of an open SCRA ID has been developed by admins, devs etc, why cannot something similar happen to the noms? And don't anwer again with the nomad trial ID, because I am talking about a more offensive nom ID. I know quite well that it cannot stay as a terrorist ID for sake of avoiding the lolwuts; besides it would need other restrictions. The proposed nomad ID description I saw here was a good start, with the need to stay in the Omicrons. I would even go so far and say that a public nomad ID should only be allowed to freely engage Order players or something similar like that. Just a thought about it.
But the fact is: With the lack of nomad acitivy around, I just wonder where is the sense in having Order & Guild Core? These two factions are based on countering the nomad threat, but without any threat, why is there still a need for these two factions? Even their war against each other is based on the nomads...
Right now I am quite aware that .86 is still beta, but at this moment these factions are under restructuring, to say it nicely, but I fear that both npc factions will become obsolete, if it goes on like this.
