Proposal: ID changes for 4.87

[AeternusDoleo]

You didn't add Leeds/Bretonia at all as part of the ZOI for the Liberty Navy ID. As it stands right now, the Liberty Navy has been operating in and around Bretonia on and off, assisting the BAF| with the defense of Leeds, and conducting recon, so in the very least, we should have Leeds on our ID, unless you mean to tell us that we cannot defend our allies, conduct recon, and establish trade connections inRP.

Has the storyline already progressed to that point? I was under the impression that that would happen during 4.87, not before it... I could be wrong though.

Pilot A: What are you doing here?
Pilot B: I'm on a Trade mission from x
Pilot A: YOu're out of your ID ZOI!!!! REPROT!!

Admin: *Ignores report since that's not a violation*
Being outside your ZoI in and of itself isn't a violation. However, if the LN goes and hunts pirates in say Kusari, then it becomes an issue. Players have more privileges inside their ZoI, but are not restricted to them.

There actually is a deal with the Hackers. I think the exact details are that we ignore their smugglers and allow them to dock on FP4 (-0.3 rephack), and we do not get pirated as often in return.

Fixed that for you. LH~ might let us be, but Hacker indies can still hit IMG players. Not the preferred target, but still a target of opportunity.

- Can hunt ships belonging to houses or organisations considered hostile by X within their Zone of Influence.
Zone of Influence: X
This is redundant, since if the factions are hostile to X, they would not be there in the first place. Allowing them to AT LEAST engage these organizations in the borderworlds between all houses would be much easier.

I'm not sure what you're asking here... For factions like DSE to be allowed to explicitly go looking for pirates outside of Liberty's borders, where they have no bases or other assets to protect?

I quite agree that there are grieving xenos, but there are griefers everywhere. I've spoken with people and come up with a proposition. XA can use that line effectively without taking away from RP, in essence we actually make the RP more realistic. Would an official ID specifically for the Xeno Alliance be able to be made WITH this line added, assuming the proposed change goes through?

Possibly. But I still prefer a universal fix for this:
How can we allow for non-piracy, terrorist faction roleplay (Xenos, LWB, Gaians, FA, Maquis) while preventing the ID from becoming susceptible to grievers who just bluemessage everything with no roleplay short of an engagement notice? If anyone has any ideas in regards to this, let me know.
Proper test: Apply your suggestion to the ID, then place yourself in the shoes of a griefer who wants nothing less then to bluemessage transports with as little RP as possible.

It might be me. but does Rishiri dont belong to kusari anymore? As it used to be kusari and here its a tau.

By design. It is a Tau borderworld on the edge of Kusari space. Kinda like Omega-11 is an Omega borderworld on the edge of Rheinland space.

The ZoI is lacking Coronado and Inverness which both connect to Cortez and are close to Vespucci. I'm sure it slipped your mind considering the amount of stuff going on right now but if it was done on purpose please talk with either me or Max about it (preferably Max).

Explain to me why you need those systems included. They aren't on the path from Vespucci into Liberty, and don't provide an alternate route into Liberty. IE why would the Hellfire Legion need to go there?

Now that I had a better look, the plain zoner ID can only defend allied ships while the other factions may defend neutral ones as well ( others are OSI & TAZ ) dismissed on purpose? Because I think it should be the other way around since both TAZ and OSI work most of the times in the other part of the universe when the plain ones operate in the omicron edgeworlds.

"Ohai. Captain of random Juggie here. These miners are my friends. Bugger off pirate before I swat you."
See why the Zoner ID needs some special handling? It's virtually neutral-to-all so adding in the ability to defend neutral ships gives them the action to join in an existing fight on either side at will. With snubs to dreads. Bit much don't you think? Player faction IDs (closed ones) aren't that big a problem. If players behave irresponsibly on those, the admins can contact those factions and ask for an explanation. Open IDs... not so much.
Zoners being neutral to everyone tends to mean that Zoners shouldn't be shooting anyone that isn't shooting at them first. IE if the Core keeps getting attacked by Zoner Juggies, I'd not consider it unreasonable for the Core and BHG factions to start shooting Zoners back Siriuswide. Which would be problematic since the BHG have many NPCs on Freeports.

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