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It is currently 100% on Corporate IDs and the Freelancer ID. We may want to open it up slightly, but it's also meant to be flown by people that'd logically splash on a Space Bugatti (we want to avoid half the Liberty Navy flying them).
There might be an argument for GC to have access but I'm not sure. The "bug" part here would be listing it as "Civilian" but I'm not sure how else to label it.
We used to sell these ships on our GC base (Morioka) before this patch, so naturally we have GC players who suddenly have useless ships.
GC could have their hands on it as 'stolen' goods, as it is Kusari tech, so it would be explainable for us to have access to them. Much more than the 'Liberty Navy'.
I honestly don't really understand why they're messing with the ship sellers and tech cells anyways.
These things are driven by the players and faction leaders together decide upon through no minor amount of work to create lore for those factions and then the Devs work on introducing those not before.
Also unless I'm missing something It seems just to me abit mad that there were no patch notes (Which that thread hasn't been updated since 2021) that delve into these changes so we could immiedietly highlight these things.
Were just left in the dark thumbling about like idiots trying to recognise whats changed.