(12-30-2019, 11:32 AM)Typrop Wrote: Okay, so, here's the thing.
"Official" house space, is, as mentioned, things like Kusari, Rheinland, Bretonia, Liberty, and Gallia. That's the overall majority of territory.
You then got border worlds, which are chock full of people screwing around in their own interests, like the IMG in the Taus, or RHA in the Omegas. Everybody's got a stake somewhere and it makes independent activity rather hellish for some.
Edge worlds? Technically free game. Technically. Order and Nomads will get up your nose for anything they can think of. Corsairs and Outcasts, too. This is how Groshyr is right.
How Groshyr is wrong, at least implicitly, is that it doesn't make doing what you want impossible. It just makes it extremely annoying if it intersects with the interests of whoever's in charge, and if they find out.
If. They find out. The trick, and one that I'm frankly terrible at, is to not get caught if you're doing something weird. Or at the very least maneuver yourself into a position where they're unwilling to take action against you. Yes, this includes paying out cash.
You'll also probably notice very quickly it'll be really hard to make a dent into existing RP, so you'll get pressured into joining a faction so you can do things. I'd personally advise against this if you're building a character, because a frequent mindset is that their character has basically no life outside of the faction. This, of course, implies you care about writing a character other than being dude in faction x. Which, you might, might not, I can't read your brain.
There's also just certain places people don't want you poking around, like in the Omicrons. Order and Nomads, again, very touchy about who is where and when. Order doesn't want you in systems they consider their own, Nomads likewise. Core? Nobody talks about Core. Because it's dead, at least, until there's the necessary surge in activity to resuscitate the faction. Again.
Much like EVE, this game's a real pain to actually have fun in, but it's possible, and it's gonna feel like a skinner box the entire way through, until you get that gratification, which is very sweet. Then again, that's virtually any long-running, public roleplay community in a nutshell.
