Mjolnir: Yeah, it was just something I put out there as a means of enhancing the experience of being in house space. Kusari and Rheinland NPC levels are as you said, strong enough to make an impact without being a major factor. If that could be brought to the other houses and the independent worlds between, then things would feel much more uniform and it would be one step closer to not having to suspend disbelief everytime a pack of starflier Xenos attacks my Junker at the Colorado hole. I was also thinking of Pennslyvania as a good system to keep the players that need protecting in, though a starflier with class 7/8 guns really doesn't need a lot of protecting if handled right. It'd also make the starflier into a suddenly viable RP platform where, again, you don't have to suspend disbelief.
I'm personally all for the idea. If you say the patrols and NPC loadouts would be the easy part, then that's my big concern gone right there.
MarvinCZ: I like Jure's idea better too about the weapons. It's not as neat but sometimes for missions you probably do need weaker guns on the ships. Maybe if we can't delete the old ships, make them into clones of one another in the hope of maybe giving everyone with one or the other advance warning to swap ships. There will be a bit of moaning about "But I lose a million credits" in the trade, but ultimately it's a way forward into tidying up the mod.
Alex: I don't see it as a whole new combat system to switch around gun levels, and beef up NPCs that are currently weak for no real reason than that's how it was in the original Freelancer for the sake of growing a character inside an evolving storyline. It just tidies up the mod and allows anyone in any ship they can purchase to fit into the world around them. People would be neither too weak or too strong for their surroundings regardless of what ship or star system they're in. Also, I refer to the /restart function as just the first step toward this actually moving forward, not the key element. If starting ships like the Starflier and Dagger can fly inside Rheinland and match evenly with the NPCs and what players they come to, it'd be for the betterment of RP experience.