Independant Trader ID should allow civillian craft above 3700 cargo

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As to the original post, these two sum up what I would have said.

This limitation exists to encorage people join the factions, use factions' ID and follow factions' role playing guidelines.

The limit is there because in 4.84 95% of traders had a Trader ID and a 5k transport. A few were well-RP'd, but by and large they were 'abusing' the ID and avoiding RP since it is generic.

The limitation on the ID is not an RP one. It is there to balance it out and encourage people to use trader factions, which again boosts pirate and law enforcement activity (it's hard to be LWB/FA without any Synth Foods players, or etc.). Yes, the Trader ID is relatively unused now, but it's easy to imagine that there would be more people working for companies that give them ships to fly than would start up their own business, and then there's taxes on businesses that aren't applied since it's a game etc. etc. that would keep independent traders from amassing fortunes.

However, this post bugs me so I have to respond.

If the police/factions let it happen and it's profitable, it's RP (in case you forgot the goal of trading is to make money). If the police let it happen and it's not supposed to happen, it's the police's fault for letting it happen, not the trader's fault.

First off, have you ever played a police character? It's almost infuriating when people accuse police of "not enforcing" something, especially when it's something such as that. The police factions shouldn't be there (though most of the time, we are) to enforce RP and suppress OORP behavior. It's up to the player to change their ID/Ship, we simply can't do it. Blowing up traders, explaining to them in-rp AND oorp to stick to roleplay or server rules just does. not. work. Oh and while sanctionlancer is fun, it gets old real fast.

The mindset that trading is just to make money is one of the saddest notions in disco I can think of. It's just like any other role to be played, so have some friggin' fun while doing it instead of grinding mindlessly.

/yet another rant.

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