The Tech Chart

[Decerebrated.Individual]

My issues with white cells in the tech chart are these:

-people who see others ingame with a white-cell set up may wrongfully think that they are violating a rule, or may wrongfully think that this is allowed for everyone ---> creates rule lawyering and rule violation reports ----> messes up RP atmosphere even more than the plethora of rules already does.

-encourages clique lancer.

-No way to make the permission-granting objective/fair


A better way of handling it may be this, if the hardcoded game mechanics allow for it (not sure they do):

Gun classes on all ships (actually its only necessary for combat shps since freighters dont have faction guns) will be changed, not to reflect the strength or level, but the manufaturer and compatibility with ship models.

It would alos be necessary that gun slots allow onnly their own class to be mounted, not the classses below it.

For example class 1 will be liberty built ships, they can mount liberty-built guns. Since I don't see why pirates would have their own gun-manufactiruing facilities, liberty pirates can also only mount liberty guns.

For Outcasts, all their allies get to mount their stuff, although they may have to fly to Malta to get them.

Class 10 could be missiles and codenames, and every or some ships could have a certain number, like 1 or 2, of these "universal" class slots.

This way, a Freelancer ID could permit you to fly certain kinds of ships from all houses (civi, not military), but you would still be forced to have a certain RP consistency between your ship and guns.

Drawback would be that it's an enourmous amount of work for devs to change all that.

But it would this whole ID/gun/ship in-fighting a bad memory from the past.