Proposal: ID changes for 4.87

[AeternusDoleo]

What the hell is with the cargo restrictions on Corsair/OC IDs? Seriously, these kinds of nerfs are starting to really piss me off. There's no reasonable point to them, and they're there to just make our lives harder. Give me one good reason why Corsair, Outcast, or even Junker IDs should have a cargo restriction on them? All three groups are more powerful than a lone freelancer, but can't have a transport bigger than one? Corsairs and Outcasts can field dozens of caps, and Junkers have their own shipline, yet they can't maintain a Stork?

And don't say ANYTHING about it making their trading OP, because Corsairs and Outcasts can dock in a hell of a lot less places than Gateway and Bowex can.

Oh, IND and OSI are also universal-trade anywhere factions, yet they can use 5K ships. OC/Corsairs can only dock on their ally's bases. Perfect logical reasoning you have there.

But on a lighter note, I do approve of this line
- While using cruisers, can only attack in selfdefense when outside their Zone of Influence.

Watch your tone please. Crying louder tends to make me deaf and not hear you. That said, I've asked around with the rest of the admins to see how this could best be handled.

Player IDs can have less restrictions - since abuse of them will have the admins come down on the factions. For open IDs, that cannot be done. You'd need to compare the Sair/Cast IDs to the Zoner and Interspace ones respectively.

Junkers can basically dock anywhere except Kusari lawful. That needs a drawback - and preferably not one that'll end them getting rephacked hostile to a house because someone thought it a good idea to run a convoy of 5Kers of Cardi into Manhattan a dozen times. It's a "go to unlawful, do not pass start" waiting to happen if you give those 5Kers.

That said, plan is to allow Casts and Sairs 5Kers (no restriction - they're the biggest unlawful factions in lore - I don't care if other players argue that their own factions are bigger or have more ships - that's the way the storyline is written. Those factions even have a friggin' settled planet ffs, not a bunch of asteroid bases). Remaining unlawful factions: 4.3K, with full allowances for house civvy tech. IE you want to build a Liberty Rogue Bison? Go for it dude, just keep in mind, no CM, no CD. Why not the 5Kers? 'Cause the house movers deserve to be the ones with top cargo. It's what they do.



As for Lawfuls being able to clear the lanes - yea, it does create the risk of a corporation playing Sirius Police, but how would you write this? The basic function of that line is to allow escorts of convoys to engage unlawfuls or quasilawfuls who are hanging around a lane waiting for prey, before the transports themselves are targeted. The "Can protect a friendly transport" line doesn't cover this.



Hellfire Legion ZoI issue: I really think that's stretching it to include the upper independent worlds. You're fighting Liberty, but also finding the time and resources to actively go hunt for Outcasts and smugglers? Who is funding all this? What's the RP reason behind it besides "want to shoot Outcasts/smugglers"? With that line of reasoning, even the Corsairs should have those systems in their ZoI, which obviously isn't happening.
That capships can't leave ZoI ID was on there for some reason - I'll ask Cannon why. Might be your faction did something in the past that warrants it being there.

[Edit] Revision 7 upped. Changes:
- Unlawful cargo allowance bumped. Only Freelancer, automated Freelancer (AI) and Pirate have a sharp limit left. Sair/Outcast: No limit. House unlawfuls: 4.3K (allows PTrain and house battletransports amongst others).
- Some minor fixes to points people made.

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