Before I begin, I would give a public kudos to @Thyrzul for being an utter bro. After a certain individual tried to sell off a stolen ship, the guy bought it for us and just...gave it to us. No questions asked.
On that note, let us talk about the current policy on shared ships. Ever since somewhere around 2009, the Admin team have been very clear on the subject of shared accounts and the potential drama they hold. Share ships at your own risk. Do not come running to the admins if you give your codes to people you do not trust. Sounds reasonable and simple, right?
Yes, yes it does. But it makes huge problems in certain situations, where deletion or stealing of faction assets is seen not only as something you should be prepared for and take responsibility for, but also a community where there is a certain knowledge that at any time given, you can take your faction's shared ships and, maybe apart from your reputation stained, you can get away with it. People can and have created alts to join factions and made off with their assets, even if they are just a few shared fighters for quick reactions and emergencies.
I see this as a problem. I want to see a faction be appealing to players, because it supports them. Not only by not making them fly alone, but allowing a player join, who perhaps does not have the funds to get a ship they will perhaps not use as often, by giving them access to, say, a shared transport.
I do not believe that the reason we did not refund stolen ships back in the day was due to the lack of software needed to track these changes or logs to prove what has happened. If that was the case, then surely that practice would have been changed by now with all of the stuff we have. No, the reason for it was because every single encounter involving ship theft was very specific and often due to certain circumstances. But with factions, it should NOT be the case.
With LR, our bank was, for example, deleted by a leaving member who was angry at Disco and was trusted enough to have access to it to help new LR members set up their ship, back when SNs were sold only in Kappa and you had to keep some on your faction bank.
Later, an ex leader stole both of our SRP cruisers, back from when the LR ID did not have the ability to fly cruisers and were using Specops IDs, along with the banks, a few notable ships used by older leaders and ended up selling most of them off.
And the worst part I personally remember was a friend of mine who had too much money fund five Legates and make an open group to share them and allow players to farm then highly lucrative missions in Gamma. They were all stolen.
Enough of this nonsense. Please let us factions get a chance to submit certain ships as Faction Property. Ships that do not belong to any player within the faction including the leader. If it gets stolen/looted, it would be restored, no questions asked. No more vagueness and questions whether or not ex leaders or members have some sort of ''right'' to what was essentially given for all faction members to use, if they happen to leave or have a fallout within the faction.
Just give us a chance to say, hey, X and Y and Z ship with those loadouts are now faction shared ships. Please let us submit a violation report if they are stolen by a member or looted. Heck, make it an official faction perk if you have to- I will totally apply for it.
I want my faction members to have fun. Sadly, things can happen which lead people to do stupid things. "Allowing access to trusted individuals only" has nothing to do with it. Anyone can do this. Individual players, I get it. Both sides give a different story and it is hard to have the admins decide who is right.
But if we can simply submit a list of ships which are the property of the tagged faction, surely it avoids this sort of problems?
I want the input of all involved sides- faction leaders, members as well as the admin team when they have the time. Is this a reasonable request?
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