You cannot stop the raids. You simply cant. Its canon, so even if the official faction KNOWS its a gank you cant order them to keep it fair. You cant even try and channel the flood by trying to make the numbers more balanced; you just get ignored or called a coward. Anyone who has been in Alpha the past year or so knows how much it has gone downhill. Oddly enough, that spiral downward coincided when the 101st was warned if we shot our own ID's down, no matter how idiotic they are acting, that we could be sanctioned. So what do we do? Trying to talk sense to people is to spit into the hurricane. You MAY get one in ten to listen and thats on a good day. Cant threaten them with FR5; they are following canon. So long as they 'engagin' legal enemies, there is not a damn thing we can do except try and explain to the flood of angry PM's that we simply cant do anything about it. I have tried and TRIED to educate new people I see, answer any questions relating to rules or lore but its a losing battle. With no way to keep order, most have given up. The same thing happened in Gamma if I remember correctly; the official factions moved elsewhere. Either give us the ability to crack the whip or live with it.
