About the whole CR Tech Permission

[teschy]

[color=#FF0000]i would also suggest - NOT to make a difference between closed factions and public ones - the great idea of 4.86 was to actually balance the gap of factions vs. independents - which had grown larger in 4.85.

The only problem is that you'll see dozens a lot of people flying with CR/HF/RoS/SCRA ships and weapons, without the respective faction IDs. Why? Because the ID's are available to factions only, and you suggest the tech should be free for all.

That's quite stupid and counterintuitive. Might as well make the ID's public as well. But unfortunately no-one wants that, so there you go.