Cargospace restriction

[Diomedes]

Okay, I definitely see both sides on this one. But here's some further thoughts:

Without cargo restrictions, freelancers would be able to go and land anywhere with any ship. However, is also the most prone to being pirated as no faction identifies them where as Samura won't get hit by Hogosha and so on. Not much of a downside, true.

But in RP, if a independent trader was wealthy enough to commission a 5k transport, why would a shipyard turn them away? And this would not be unseating the corporate crown at all, since as a company they can deploy multiple transports, escort and the like (again in RP).

So, what if there were no cargo restrictions (or only very few, rather than on anyone who isn't a major corporation) but Transports were more controlled by the tech chart, at least at the upper cargo scales?

Perhaps corporate house ids could be given their own tech. So Shire and Shetland become Bretonia Corp tech. This is then only usable with certain ids. There is then still house civilian for say, Clydesdale and Percheron.

I'm drawing a blank for details here, but basically you would channel freelancers and independent traders to the Stork or generic transports. If they wanted something else, they would have to request approval and the be subject to some form of RP restriction.

Downsides: Further complication to the tech-chart. Might also see ID-Ship conflicts cases go way up.

So yeah, just some quick thoughts.

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