A generic Pirate IFF.

[atlantis2112]

Freelancer IFF just means the pirate in question is unaffiliated with other pirate factions.

[Mao]

Too much hassle if you start shooting NPCs.

Maybe an IFF that shows nothing. Call it a blank IFF. Same would go for the FL IFF as well. It is normal for a company to display an IFF or for an army ship to have one but it's kinda weird for civilians (freelancers) to display anything.

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[Elven]

I just feel that a Pirate IFF is more suitable for a Pirate ID than a Freelancer IFF with a Pirate ID.

For traders - yes, for pirates - no.

No from me, despite I never pirate. Unneccesary reps to fix in repsheet.

[Enoch]

Having a 'pirate' IFF would be like having a sign on your car that tells the police that you like to street race.

A player with an Pirate IFF would have every lolcop in the area after them.

You do realize that every unlawful faction in Sirius has its own IFF, right ? There is no difference between, say, Rogue IFF and Pirate IFF.

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[Elven]

By having their own IFF, Rogues recognize each other and usually don't pick a fight with each other, but rather unite.

Lane Hackers are organisation, thus they need IFF.

[Mickk]

You do realize that every unlawful faction in Sirius has its own IFF, right ? There is no difference between, say, Rogue IFF and Pirate IFF.

Yes, yes, I know this very well.

The big thing is..... not ALL people belonging to an 'unlawful' faction are pirates.

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[dodike]

It does not makes sense as explained here

An IFF is like the flag over a ship, it lets others Identify it as Friend or Foe. A ship flying no flag is considered to be a pirate ship.

[blubba]

If theres a freelancer IFF, there should be a pirate IFF. Thats just my opinion and I expect to get shot over it.

Flying a flag...like a Jolly Roger for example?
No, of course not, no pirate has ever do that have they....?

As for military and corporations, I agree with the earlier poster. It's normal for them to have an IFF.
However, if you live in certain places in the america's, you might find things like 'Florida' or somesuch on a vehicle plate. In europe, there are sometimes stickers with letters or the number plates which have small ID letters on them (although a lot now have 'EU' on them). The numbers and letter combinations tell us things. Even the font used. Why oh why is this so impossible to imagine in the future when we are doing it right now?

Once that said ship has commited an act of piracy, his ship is logged. A pirate IFF is what everyone should now see him as.
If any ship has no IFF when you come across it, your IFF system should instantly flag him as hostile because his ships transponder is refusing to identify itself. You can work out the details later of just how hostile he is at 15k away.

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[Gytrash]

Once that said ship has commited an act of piracy, his ship is logged. A pirate IFF is what everyone should now see him as.
If any ship has no IFF when you come across it, your IFF system should instantly flag him as hostile because his ships transponder is refusing to identify itself. You can work out the details later of just how hostile he is at 15k away.

I agree, this should be implemented and then pirates prevented from having freelancer IFFs. The freelancer's are actually a faction, for example the freelancer ID, which could be considered the template of freelancers in sirius has this text.

Cannot pirate, but can provide security services for pirates who are pirating if paid to do so. Freelancers can only fire on traders or smugglers in self-defense or if the trader or smuggler fires on or is bountied by the Freelancers's employer.

The freelancer's are generally assumed to be someone who has broken off from normal society to do whatever they want, if they want to pirate then one assumes that they would get in line with an unlawful faction,

Indeed, if I am on my pirate then i take offence to freelance pirates working in my ZOI. There is only so much to go around you know.
Not particularly coherent, but thet's just me...

[Hielor]

I agree, this should be implemented and then pirates prevented from having freelancer IFFs. The freelancer's are actually a faction, for example the freelancer ID, which could be considered the template of freelancers in sirius has this text.
The freelancer's are generally assumed to be someone who has broken off from normal society to do whatever they want, if they want to pirate then one assumes that they would get in line with an unlawful faction,

Freelancers are a faction? What?

I think you do not know what "freelancer" means...