systems listed as fields of operations - there are several guard systems listed. don t know if thats working - aren those "private" systems purchased from the factions? - while it might - in special cases make sense to enter a liberty guard system - i m unsure about a kusari guard system. gonne edit as i read through it all - there are allready so many opinions and the original post is long enough, too - so i can t put it all into the original reply.
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- alaska - no lanes to hack, not sure if it counts as an official liberty system either, cause its sort of a secret system with a very secret entrance ( if you don t count the obvious conneticut gate )
- it appears that allmost all bretonia is within the field of operation - which might be quite a lot. ( judging from the behaviour of NPCs that are not seen in bretonia ) - maybe making it rank dependent about how big your field of operation is is more effective. - so that a higher ranked LH doesn t need to ask if he can enter zone X - but knows perfectly where his ZoI ends. and maybe only add systems that are somewhat adjacent to the primary field of operation - unsure if that should include adjacent systems to allied factions, too - but thats about to be seen.
there is little else to say about the faction concept - before you can really do your roleplay, you might need to advertise that part of sirius though. - cause the reality looks rather dark - there might be lanes to hack, but only few ships to tax. since Clover as Gaian is bound to pirate in leeds only - my experience is that there is hardly any traffic to be considered "worth" staying around to pirate. - and i am alone, and not a faction.
so if piracy / lane hacking is the primary method - you ll have some boring times. so you might want to get into interaction with the various factions quickly to offer apps something.