About the whole CR Tech Permission

[Zelot]

From my perspective as an admin, I felt the whole point of the tech auto-nerf was that admins wouldn't have toi sanction people for tech violations anymore. I do also believe that closed factions without Indies, who have their own tech line, those ships should be regulated by the faction I guess. I am not sold on it, but fact of the matter is, as long as we have closed factions, with their own NPCs and shiplines in the game, there will be differences between the closed factions and the open ones.

I personally see the following as the best situation in my opinion.

Free for all with open tech. Anyone can use open tech and take the auto nerf.

Closed factions (ex CR, HF, ROS, Wild) should stay closed in terms of tech permissions. Although I dare say, I wouldnt mind seeing an all or nothing system there, where if a faction chooses to give out tech, it cant control who gets it, or the faction chooses to not give out tech at all, and no one gets it.

Either way, the CR did something they were told explicitly not to do, and they did it in a way that was meant to cause problems for the players who had used their tech before. This is not the behavior we expect from official factions here.

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