4.88.6 (4.88 Final) - Fall Update: Bretonia and Liberty Cleanup

Hello there, we would like to request a few easy and quick fixes associated with the latest updates.

Even though we explicitly provided the bases where we'd like the Vindicator to be sold at, it is currently only sold on Airdrie Hideout, a hidden base with LH Guard rep in the most remote part of Liberty. This is not how people will learn about it, pull the effort of fixing the reputation and going all the way to Alberta in order to start playing with the newest dev release.

The current faction roleplay behind the Bayonet is that it is produced but sold instead on civilian markets (usually black market) as to our eyes it is an outdated model, surpassed by far by the Vindicator. Subsequently we don't want the Bayonet to be sold any longer on LH bases, it should be moved to civilian/freelancer/zoner bases.

Here is our proposal:

Vindicator should be sold at Mactan Base (in place of Bayonet), Leiden Base, Airdrie Hideout (in place of Pirate Transport). The Airdrie one is already done.

Bayonet should be sold at Ames Research Station (in place of Griffin, there is long standing RP since vanilla about our cooperation with the Zoners at Ames), Heisenberg Research Station (already there), Freeport 6 (in place of Voyager as it is already sold next system). Bayonet's sellpoint in Alexandria does not make much sense since there is not an actual market there.

Vindicator's Release Announcement

There was no announcement about the new ship's release, in fact outsiders told us about it who randomly found it in FLStat, otherwise we would probably not even know to this date.

When there is development it should be announced, as it creates hype and interest for people to come in and try out the new features/releases. In particular our faction, which is struggling with activity, really needs a dev announcement which will inform the playerbase about the new ship. Currently there is only a tiny fraction of Discovery's playerbase that knows that the Lane Hackers have a new VHF.

Perhaps that will draw more people to try it out (provided that when the announcement is made it is not only sold on Airdrie) and some of them perhaps will join the faction afterwards. It is no secret that a faction shipline is a central factor when a player decides to join a faction or its lack thereof is considered a huge deterrent.

Jump Gate and Trade Lane Parts commodity in wrecks

Our recruits have informed us that the following wrecks no longer drop the aforementioned commodity but instead they drop Docking Ring Parts. We would like to request this to be reversed as it is an intergral part of our recruitment process as you can see in the image below.

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Galileo, Komatsu Cloud, C3, Chesapeake

Kepler, Kuryo Cloud, F6, McKinley

Magellan, The Barrier, C7, Bradley

Minnesota, Lamberton Ice Field, E7, Sapphire

Texas, Grande Negra, C6, Supply Ship Ft. Worth

Closing Word

We sincerely request and hope that the proposed changes will be applied as soon as possible. Unlike our previous Mod Development Request which hasn't been implemented yet after a full year, these requests are much more time-sensitive and important to the faction.

Thank you in advance.