Unofficial Faction Rules

[Karst]

You're all ignoring Karst's point. We (and he) probably all know why these restrictions are in place for (official) factions. However, what he's pointing out is that if these "GNG" simply didn't call themselves "GNG" and flew around as John.Smith, Peter.Parker and Fat.Joe without any tags, they could also be flying a Rogue Gunboat, an Outcast Rapier and a Red Hessian Odin in one group.

Which means that, effectively, players are only punished for combining the "ultimate tech" if they choose to let themselves be punished by sticking a tag onto their ships' names.

This is exactly my point, which I apparently didn't make clear enough in the OP.

ID rules themselves already prevent groups with blatantly incompatible IDs from working together (e.g. LPi and LH), but by preventing a group from using different IDs that CAN work together, you're solely punishing them for putting a tag on their ships since they could just as easily fly untagged.

Basically, all you're doing is punishing RP'ing as a group.

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