The other day I was stopped by a Navy Officer because my IFF was not correct. I have been through Liberty space and passed countless Navy and Police craft and the matter was, until now, never mentioned. I fly under the Ageira ID in my Titanic and had Liberty Navy as IFF apparently. No idea why or how but thats how it was. I honestly had no idea what he was talking about, so he explained to me about using the /droprep command. I had to use the command about 6 times because each time I used it my IFF would indeed change but still not match my ID. I now have no IFF as far as I am aware which Navy guy said would be ok.
I am still so new at this game and much of the RP rules I am still trying to get my head around and am inadvertently getting wrong. I have since read as much as I can about IFF/ID relations but much of it is still above me there are so many combinations it would seem.
Anyway, my trader now seems to be fixed, or at least enough to be ok with the Navy. Now, I would like to have a go at playing a smuggler type character. I had originally thought getting a smuggler ID and appropriate ship would suffice, but my IFF incident has made me wonder, which IFF are acceptable to have as a smuggler. I have tried searching for smuggler related posts but am still unsure and would like a little info on it. Junkers seems to appear a lot on the posts I have read, so that appears to be one option.
Which IFF can I have and still be a proper RP smuggler?
if you want to smuggle, get a freelancer iff and smuggler id. getting the freelancer iff mostly to get no other out of roleplay iff. to get the freelancer iff, head to coronado, to the barrier gate station. get a triple freelancer bribe there and you should be alright. for and independent trader, freelancer, smuggler, pirate and merc id, this is the best iff, unless its a special kind of roleplay
As far as understand it ... you can have any IFF you want with a Smuggler ID so long as its not police, military, navy or any other house authority. House corporations can smuggle just as much as the rest of us.
Well, I headed to barrier gate stations and got myself a triple freelancer bribe. I noticed it was not flashing, which I was lead to believe made it the IFF. I will assume all is fine as it was a triple bribe. Now to sort out my vessel.
Thanks.
[EDIT]
After server rebooted just now it flashes so all is well.