If I've got a pirate ship and I want to fly in the UEE systems, will I be shot to death by military police, or is it based on my reputation? He wants to buy a Cutlass, but he's not sure he'll be able to fly it if he's not interested in becoming a pirate.asked by TC Finwa
TL;DRAnyone can buy and fly a Cutlass without being treated as a pirate, since reputation, not ship type, determines how others see you, though some players may look askance.
Anyone can buy a Cutlass. That's not going to be the defining factor in people thinking of you as a pirate; it's all a reputation system. So you can fly a Cutlass, you can explore with it, you can do legal bounty hunter missions, that sort of thing, without a problem. Other players may look askance at you, because the fiction is that this company, Drake, creates these ships that everybody knows are for pirates. They're legitimate businessmen, but everybody knows they're making these ships for pirates. Other players may look at you askance, but they'll be able to scan you and see you're a good citizen.
Yeah, kind of think of it like the whiskey runners from the American past, right, where you can still buy a nice Ford two-door coupe, but they souped theirs up and flew them around, and so the cops never knew who was the good guy or the bad guy. Now, they could know by reputation, maybe they've got a certain fender type or a certain... They would know that that was a pirate. Same kind of thing in this situation. They'll know you by your rep, not necessarily by your ship. It's all about your personality. You want whatever ship you want, we're going to support that.
I think we'll be seeing lots of pirates with Constellations. You don't have to have a Cutlass.