Mercs...

[Dusty Lens]

The problem hasn't changed, it's been this way forever. 90% of mercs are and always have been the happy funtime grabbag of stuffz brought from all corners of the mod to hammer down on whomever it is that they feel like hammering down on ID group.

Throw Freelancers into the mix.

Just about the only thing you can't theoretically do with a merc is buy yourself a Falcatta, load it up with Krakens and then proceed to explode Outcasts in Malta Orbit. But, in theory, you also could if you dropped some bit about having "done some work for them" back in the day and you're still holding onto their toys.

The whole affair is best governed by personal responsibility but, on that same token, most of the persons who are attracted to it are those whom are most enamored by the potential of going buck wild with a Mjolnir loaded down with cids to pew pew Barghests before turning around two seconds later to pew pew Upholders to turn around two seconds later to pew pew whatever is in front of his ship etc.

*deep breath*

They suck, in other words.

I can count the number of freerange mercs that rock on one hand.

/rant