I came from a server awhile ago that only allowed you to be in one faction. Personally I find that somewhat restrictive and can lead to boredom or faction hopping type activities. What this server has is fine now, being in multiple factions, even opposing ones allows freedom to choose. One day you can be a law abiding citizen protecting ppl from pirates, next day you can be the pirate. I like the middle road approach proposed by Korrd, it is sensible and clear cut. One note on multiple chars I would like to point out, that irks me at times. Being a pirate I loot npc ships and tax players at times. I do notice and mentally keep track of other peoples alt chars. My example is I am pirating in one area, notice player A in another char other side of the universe, player A docks and swaps chars to another char, that just happens to be in same area as me. Now I have a large cap ship staring me in the face, telling me to hit the road or die. And I know the swap was intentional for this purpose, cause after I leave area player A swaps back to char previously in. Although this is not against the rules, it kinda goes in line with this topic. If you wanna swap to a totally different char, you should log out for a few minutes say 10 or so, not use as my buddy says the "Nomad Transporter" to instantly appear where you wanna be at.
