i UNDE STAND THE ARGUMENT THE nb SIGMA 13 jh IS THERE CAUSE ITS THERE IN THE STORY LINE
why cant it still be there but totally covered by a mine field Lets say RM closed it off.
No way in!!!!!on NB side.
That will make traders think twice about other routes.
Again.... just looking for ideas..... and their validity.
Problems:
1. Most traders are alt characters and are only made to make fast profit (be a man and get money for gunboat by missions like me) and are going to be transfered to other characters regardless of their faction.
2. Bretonia and Kusari are empty because most havent learned them good enough in SP so they stick to liberty or to pirates. Not to mention guns here. Since everyone wants to have best(or what they belive best is)
3. For some odd reason i have heard big number of people complain about ship design (bretonia and kusari are on biggest hit here), no real cure to this exist, not even total remake of fleet wouldnt work. Big number of players fly ships they like, and not ones that are rp sugested.
4. I see too much zoner characters in populated systems like NY. Ive also found out that good number of zoner traders are zoner because then pirates dont bother them.
5. Niobium/diamond run is made because its short, point A to pint B and decent profit. That should not be nerfed, but maybe other routes should be made more profitable or quicker. I actually belive badlands jump gate should be opened for simple sake of giving something to do for LR(besides all out attack on NY) and quicker possible route to bretonia.
6. Factions. Ok a big problem here. Either formal or unformal ones, some ingame factions have too much "clans" or player made groups. Liberty itself has active LSF, LPI, SA, USS and bunch of independant police/navy pilots, BHG who have at least 4 factions. While bretonia has SF(kinda dead), QCO and QCP... who are of small number. Kusari has one faction too. While some factions like say Orbital Spa and Cruise has only 2 players (ones i know of, one being myself) who fly its flags. Also ALG, DSE, GMG are all dead so to speak. Maybe more roleplay expirienced players should help out with giving life to those. We dont need more pirates, cops or zoners, we need more "civilians" to get life in unused areas.
' Wrote:Bretonia needs some exciting trade routes in my opinion. Maybe arrange them between Bretonia and Kusari so that both would regain their old activity?
I rather think that Bretonia provides a goodly number of opportunities for exciting trade at the moment. Moving freight as a Bret aligned trader up through the Tau's can result in a hole being put in your head by the Kusari or Outcasts. Moving goods to Liberty takes you right through Lane Hacker and Rouge territory, both of whom have not small player faction populations (and the occasional Xeno).
Not to mention Gold and Mox are two of Bretonia's iconic exports... And I'll let you guess where the best markets are for those mutual commodities. They aint in what your honest trader would consider 'friendly' territory.
Lastly, many of Bret's chief moneymaking runs ultimately dump you off in Rheinland, which has its own crowds of pirates due to the unending train of sigma junkies.
Plus, the UOG and other Bretonia pirate factions are usually up and about with some itchy trigger fingers.
Just some thoughts. Actually I think that was a bit of a rant. For some reason I'm feeling very passionate about Bretonia as of late.
Wow fun read so far, I have to say opening the jump point in Badlands would be cool. and raiseing prices of contraband would in Britonia and Kasari would increase smugglers which would in crease cops, and the legal goods are good now as I trade through britonia all the time. They are the only one interested in probing Nomads as well. Which brings me to Omicron Minor the commodities are................nvm off topic later.
First i would like to see more Hogosha and FA faction players active, taxing the diamond/niobium runners to spoil their day and let them think about other routes. My KNF char had even made the suggestion to our high command to send an inofficial invitation to Corsairs to pirate active in Kusari. Corsairs could help with the enemies of Kusari, while the taxes they demand from traders would be the payment for their help.
I have even suggested to tax the Traders officially as KNF. A war tax for our war efforts aggainst Bretonia.
I would do everything thats possible to spoil the diamond /niobium run and force the lazy guys to take other routes.
' Wrote:First i would like to see more Hogosha and FA faction players active, taxing the diamond/niobium runners to spoil their day and let them think about other routes. My KNF char had even made the suggestion to our high command to send an inofficial invitation to Corsairs to pirate active in Kusari. Corsairs could help with the enemies of Kusari, while the taxes they demand from traders would be the payment for their help.
I have even suggested to tax the Traders officially as KNF. A war tax for our war efforts aggainst Bretonia.
I would do everything thats possible to spoil the diamond /niobium run and force the lazy guys to take other routes.
Respectful
AoM
I've been doing everything I can to play my FA char, even brought in Fallowed Ground, a new civi bomber. Some nights I pirate every single trader flying the route. But I can't do it when KNF is around. I've also had some fun with some QCP\QCO pilots. It's just that the trip is so profitable, no one ever runs anymore, I used to get 5 or six kills in a night, now people stop right nex to the dock and wait for me. I feel like the IRS in Kushyu. People come to me to pay. It's crazy.
I agree with last 4-5 members ...mostly about everything.... (Bjorn we had as USS fierce discussion 2/3 days ago, about our moving to Bretonia, but we invested a gazillion credits in our fleet, and we have no reasonable RP excuse to move there now, if someone has any idea about that especially experienced RP players please PM me )
Now for reviving Bretonia and Kusari(except NT)---- my solution is by my standards so simple that it doesn't include any minefields extensive pirating (military -pirate cooperation) and such things...
Just re-balance prices, not all of course only 4-8 crucial and the most misused.... take from traders that RETURN route which makes "we all know which route" so popular
... so they can't make 10-15 mills in 10 mins but 30 mins or so...
Think about it, when trader reaches Kusari give him no reason to travel back to RH.... instead give him reason to go to Liberty and from Liberty to Bretonia or RH, then from there to Kusari and not back to Liberty... but be careful not to make such prices so trader can overlook 1-5 mill credits loss for quicker routes... of course that Corsair and Outcast systems should have contrabanned commodities for buy and to sell those in most DISTANT house systems
I do not have list of all prices and commodities yet, but I'm in serious calculations about price re-balancing without any new commodity just old stuff (of course that every House has to have certain commodity that is unique to that House like gold, diamonds, niobium, etc.)
Please PM me with all suggestions and ideas about few NEW prices!!!!