Oversight In House Intelligence IDs And Rules?

[Lythrilux]

So I was mulling over how Houses can process roleplay consequences. As we all know, due to a change in the rules several years ago, gone are the days when a Republican Shipping ship would send a comm to the Rheinland Gov, reporting a Junker for pirating them in Tau-37 and getting said Junker fined or FR5'd from the House. Whilst it prevents silliness like that, it does otherwise put a hard wall on logical roleplay encounters (and progression thereafter) - but the gameplay and roleplay benefits were worthwhile.

Looking through this again I pondered how Intelligence IDs could be used for spy RP so that Houses could apply logical roleplay consequences in circumstances that, although outside their borders, could still be critical to their interests. I then thought to myself "doh, obviously this is already the case" - because it'd be stupid if the rules didn't give Intel IDs this kind of freedom compared to the other House Lawful IDs. Little did I know...

Outer Regional Space
- House Military, Police, and Intelligence factions may enforce roleplay consequences upon any players and factions found breaking House Laws within Outer Regional Space, only if they are personally there to witness to the legal infraction while uncloaked and equipped with a House Military, Police, or Intelligence faction ID.
- House Military, Police, and Intelligence factions may not enforce roleplay consequences upon non-hostile POBs, breaking House Laws or not, within Outer Regional Space.

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All Systems
- All Factions remain bound by their respective ID restrictions and allowances. In case of a conflict, the ID overrides server rules.
- The allowances of your ID are only valid within the listed ZoI unless specifically stated otherwise.
- House Miltary, Police and Intelligence factions may enforce roleplay consequences only for actions occurring within their ZOI.

Basically, with the way House Intel IDs work they absolutely are supposed to be doing things Sirius-wide on a daily basis. However, according to the rules, they're are outright prevented from interacting with what they encounter (and see) outside of House space in a meaningful way. Surely this can't be intentional? A cornerstone of spy and intelligence RP is being able to act on the intel you obtain. Otherwise, isn't spying a bit moot? I even feel like House Intel factions having a defined ZoI at all doesn't really even make a lot of sense, but that's another topic.

More or less, surely Intelligence IDs should be exempt from the ruling that locks House factions to only enforcing RP consequences within their ZoI? WIth this exception, this would make House Intel IDs a bit more unique and different from their, often favoured, Police and Military counterparts.

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