Alliances

[bluntpencil2001]

Now, this irritates me a bit.

Folk here seem to think that if you are 'Allied' you can basically act as if you were in both factions, such as a Liberty pilot flying around defending Bretonia from pirates.

This isn't quite right. Alliances are made for reasons, and not ones like 'I want to fly around everywhere shooting pirates.'

Liberty ships should not be protecting the Tau-31 route, for instance.

This would be like the U.S.A sending troops to the Falklands to aid the U.K in that war. Silly.

Now, Liberty and Bretonia allying against a significant Lane Hacker presence in Magellan, which hits both of their shipping, that would work.

But having ships fly around everywhere due to 'alliances' is rather simplistic politics in my opinion.

Am I wrong?

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