Remove Gunboat from Pirate ID?

[Shagohad]

You know, a really funny thing is that we're viewing this from a PvP perspective and not an RP perspective. Funny, I really thought this was an RP server. Oh, well, guess I was wrong. :dry:

Anyway, I am all for it. Remove the things. How someone who is "independent" gets a Gunboat, a massive weapon of war, is a good question. It's not like gun shops hand out free samples. Gunboats are heavily armored and armed pieces of machinery. Your "average joe" in space wouldn't fly one just like an "average joe" pilot on Earth wouldn't own an F16. It's just that simple.

Furthermore, it wouldn't affect faction membership at all. Just get a new ID. Hang out in Liberty? Get a Rogue ID! Hang out in Rheinland? Get a Red Hessian ID. It's not complicated in any sense of the word. In fact, the only thing it would hinder is that ability to go somewhere else on a character who just died, which is rather OoRP. I mean, who gets over exploding in a period of five minutes? That person must be really used to exploding all the time...

I agree and do not agree.

Agree: We need to look at this at a more RP-worthy view. It can be fun to RP having a crew on your ship and do silly little things over the system and local comm channels. Seeing this as 'omgwtfgbspam' is pretty terrible.

Disagree: There is a Sirius-wide black-market. Gunboats, albeit produced by private shipyards, can be junked and reassembled for use by those who put enough effort into them. Sure, retards can buy them if they have enough credits, but let that be a consequence for them in RP. Make them KoS to certain factions or something. This is so simple, guys. Instead of flat-out saying, "NO!" you should instead coax them into registering. If being recognized is the big issue, why not set up complex threads about this?

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