Lock Capital Ships to Zone of Influence on Independent IDs

[Thyrzul]

This is a spaceship shooting game first and foremost, you cannot organise it's players like books in a library.

Of course you can, that's what IDs and NPC factions are for, each faction is a book and each iD is a summary/table of contents of said book. But if you wouldn't look for information regarding genetic engineering in a book about quantum physics, why would you fly the warship of a gallic anti-GRN faction into the deep Omicrons? The alternative of the current system is that we drop the faction system and everyone becomes freelancer one dash one, do we want that though?

I see you tend to return to the point of "let's try looking at it from the pov of a newbie", which then seems to imply mainly two major things, namely "you either agree with me or haven't considered the pov of a newbie" and "this thread is about newbies, not indies". These are false implications. I can still remember what I've done as a newbie, learn as much as fast as possible in order not to make mistakes, thus I can consider the pov of a newbie and still disagree. And then this thread isn't about newbies, it is about indies - though I don't think it would affect me personally or my faction either should the restriction be extended upon official factions -, and it mainly wouldn't affect "newbies", just those who can't, or rather, don't want to learn and play by the current written and unwritten set of consensual community rules and guidelines. You don't have to be a newbie to cry rivers for "muh freedom" (as the example of this thread shows) and you don't need to be a vet to manage playing by the current status quo and (be creative enough to) make the best out of it.

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