Forgive me if this post sounds like nothing but negativity and complaining. I have a great respect for the amount of work the administrators put into this server and will fully admit I cannot come close to realizing how difficult it must be to administrate this server.
A total and complete amen to what RParade said. I have witnessed countless occaisions of OOC in system chat, and not a single instance of a sanction against it. If the rule isn't going to be enforced, what is the point of having it? I realise the administrators have a lot of duties here, but atmosphere is one of the most important aspects of roleplay. Having people going "LOL" and spamming the public channels with things which can and should be taken to private or local chat is highly irritating. It's the online equivalent of cellphones in a movie theatre. It's immersion breaking.
Independent Military is an inherently bothersome concept for me. If a Rheinland Military pilot is not part of the Rheinland Military, who is he? The RM is the RM, not the Third of the RM, or the 1/4 of the RM. Ditto for the KNF. SA is moving to become LN, so that goes too. Only exception I can see is the QCRF, explicitly stated by it's owner to not comprise the whole BAF.
Given these factions, as their names would logically suggest, comprise the entirety of.. well, themselves, who are the people with their IFFs and IDs? Part of some coup or experienced Lane Hacker group? Nomad infestees?
This is partially why we of Liberty High Command are trying to keep a short leash on independents, making them fly under our command, and also charging people who don't have proper IDs/tags and not out of genuine error with theft of our vehicles if they fly Liberty ships. The idea that Joe Average can buy a Dreadnought with half a bil at the local shipyard is laughable at best.
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