Quote:For those that say this is Freelancer not Corp/Cap/Whatever lancer, that's an washed up argument. Freelancer is far from the game good people at Discovery have made it to be. It has it's own laws, it's own customs already, hell it has Coalition, new ships, new models, new physics, missiles, everything. Its far from Microsoft's Freelancer. If your argument is that you want to be FREE as Trent was in his game, then you're forgetting that in order for him to be a freelancer society had to exist.
No, its NOT a washed up argument. Discovery is still Discovery Freelancer and not it's own game. If it was its own game, there wouldn't be Liberty, Corsairs, etc. What you want to do is restrict a large portion of the gaming population. And of course you will see less traders if you restrict independent traders as the vast majority traders don't belong to an official corporation. If you want to make incentives to get people into trading factions, make incentives, don't restrict people that prefer to be their own boss. People not in factions and corporations are already the most restricted group of people in the game. Don't make it even worse.
I have a legitimate trader and a smuggler. If your idea goes through, I will never log on to my trader again because signing contracts and this and that takes out the fun of it, and it's already the most boring character I have.