' Wrote:You said: and has no intention of ever joining the official hacker faction (Or can, given that she'd have to give up everything to join them
You've just made a clear and apparent statement that you have no ties to the Hackers but get all the benefits of a Hacker and suffer no penalties from your choices. Not fair.
I'm making a clear and apparent statement that I'm independent of Rheinalnd. You still have the Lane Hacker ID I'm betting. Other than that I know nothing about your Role play. The second I see you I'm thinking 'Hacker', not an independent. If you are a hacker at heart but will not follow the ID of a hacker, time to get a different ID.
The Lane Hacker ID:
1. Can demand credits or cargo.
2. Can engage pirates, terrorists and lawfuls within Liberty and the Independent Systems bordering Liberty
3. Cannot ally with any military, police, or corporate players.
4. Cannot use any transports with more than 4,300 cargo
I 1; Do demand credits or cargo during some of my interactions with traders. I do not in others, but not the ID does not state I must demand credits or cargo
2; I have engaged pirates and lawfuls in Liberty and the surrounding independent systems. I no longer engage them in say, Bretonia, because the ID prevents me from doing so
3; I have flirted with military, police and corporate players. I have gambled with them. I have taunted them. I have fed them false information. I have never allied with them
4; Yeah, my transport ship has much less cargo space than that.
I honestly don't see where I state I have no ties to the Hackers. I've interacted with the official group, pirated with them, call myself and base my character's story and lore on being a Lane Hacker, but she will never join the official lane hacker faction. I fly a Lane Hacker gunship. I get ganked for having a Lane Hacker ID (which I still do, and will never change), I suffer the goddamn consequences black and white roleplaying has imposed on my character for having that ID.
Why am I less than the officials? Why should I give up what I have worked years for? Why are you saying that my Alison the Hacker is not in fact, a Lane Hacker?