ADMIN NOTICE : OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

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If this is true, either we are 1: going to see a lot less indies, 2: they are all going to have sub-par loadouts, or 3: top level equipment is going to need to be moved outside of guard systems.

At present, the only places to get a Supernova, MR, UAU mk 8, Enhanced thruster, and, in some cases, even class 9 guns, are in guard systems. If entry to guard systems is restricted to everyone not in the official, owning faction (as the ruling seems to imply), unofficial factions, official factions not wanting a guard system and independants have no chance to even set up a fighter properly...

Since I'm personally responsible for possibly the most restrictive, fascist system policy in history, I'd like to offer some perspective.

The motivations for restricting access to Omicron-85 as heavily as it was (and to a degree still is) are twofold. The first was political; at one point some time ago the NovaPG and the 101st got into a little scrap over some very personal matters between myself and Tony (BULLDOGNK, the leader of NPG at the time), and because of the personal nature of the impending conflict the RoS understandably refused to back the 101st up. Because the 101st was a smaller faction and the NovaPG were the largest on the server (Tony preferred the Zerg Rush approach, and much of the membership at the time was of very low quality), this would have spelt our doom, and, feeling very cornered, I attempted to put pressure on the RoS by locking down the system to everybody - Outcast Factions included. The situation was resolved without armed conflict, but it was partially successful in ruffling feathers, which, at the time, seemed preferable.

The second motivation was, as many had guessed, preventing the purchase of additional Outcast Dreadnoughts. The older players know how vocal I am about capship control (and most of the newer players have gathered, I'd assume), and I've seen a few bad, bad Outcast Dreadnoughts go and cause some mess (Zhaurov, the {Name}-SURNAMEs, the MNS-Indepenza [David >.>]), and a few of them that have just mysteriously walked out of Outcast control (which seems highly unlikely for the biggest, most expensive ship we, a nation with limited resources, produce), such as the Ven'Gyr, the old HF Flagship, The Kana Keiko and Kawa Panterra (Tony again), Dab's old AW BS who's name I can't remember and Korrd's Illuvitar (both of which I think actually got wiped around 4.83ish, before it was considered bad taste). So, locking down the system of purchases was considered the best possible solution - anybody who wanted one would have to show they could and would RP it properly via the Cap Registration (and we DID approve a few; they're not nearly as high demand as the Destroyer or Battleship). Anybody who had one without our sanction was obviously in violation of system policy, if it was illegal to go there in the first place, so if reason didn't work we could expediently put them up for summary decommissioning, if you will. There's really no reason to keep same-NPC-aligned indies out unless they do something particularly stupid, since there's now a real method for enforcing a capship registration (which doesn't involve as a final action the repeated explodification).

To clarify: It was never about keeping the indies out for the hell of it. The original motivations were essentially political and arms control.

EDIT: Also, I'll be proposing a new set of cap reg specifications to the Council of Dons sometime within a week, which I expect no issues with.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.