' Wrote:I understand that the HF and other players have spent a lot of time acquiring a significant number of different ships and technologies to support their role play. I am not intentionally belittling the effort that you have put into doing this.

The issue is that we are trying to find a balance between player freedom, fairness, history, lore and storyline roleplay, lore and history. I do not claim that this system is the best solution. Saying 'leave things alone' is not a solution either because although the HF will get what they want other players will be left out and this is not fair.

I suggest that you try this new system for a while. If it causing major problems, it will be adjusted.

' Wrote:I have been playing for a few years now under various accounts and with various characters. Only once have I had a tech request granted. My role play is solid, my requests within the scope of the factions, and yet only once have I been granted tech. At one point I was actually told to sell a ship I had purchased from my own factions base because the faction who made it didn't like the deal. This is the kind of stupidity that the new system will solve. People are petty. They are prejudiced against others not in thier clique or who are different. The new system won't tell you no simply because it doesn't like you or doesn't know you. More avenues of Role Play will be opened because people previously telling you no for personal reasons rather than role play will no longer be in charge of your role play. This places LESS restrictions on role play while making it impossible to min/max for purely pvp reasons. It also makes it much harder for factions to control the roleplay of characters not in the faction but who are within the scope of the rules.