' Wrote:I think the point is, he's leading by example. As in, "look, you can do this. This is a thing. Do the RP to act as a middleman, and you can rake in cash."
' Wrote:Hey. Hey.
Use the communications board. Guess what? Kusari did.
Stop Q_Qing and stop RPing.
Except the problem is that pretty much everyone other than Kusari lawful factions don't really have that option.
Bretonian lawfuls? Yeah, they're at war.
Rheinland lawfuls? They haven't much reason to be in Gallia, they're too far away.
Liberty lawfuls? Bretonian allies, so no dice.
Anyone unlawful? Yeah, Gallia won't want them there.
There's a pretty clear conflict of interest here. Friday chose to add cryocubes to the needed list, knowing that his faction was in a vastly better position to ship them to Sirius than just about everyone else.
' Wrote:The system is being designed such that all regions of space should have greater access to at least one commodity - conversely all factions should have a dependency on other regions for at least one commodity.
That would be a fantastic theory--so what does Gallia need to import for stations?
Oh, right.
Nothing.
Gallia has everything they need. There's no options for Sirius people to retailiate and blockade the other side of the Gallic minefields and say "No, Gallia, you can't have our XYZ until we get your cryocubes." That pretty severely limits the trading options because Gallia is now sitting on a gold mine and doesn't need anything from anyone else.
Quote:I would get the same accusations of bias if I belonged to the Order - given that Nomad Remains are required for cloaks to be made...
As pointed out above, anyone can blow up Nomads, and Nomads are found in quite a few places. There aren't two difficult-to-pass chokepoints preventing people from getting Nomad remains.
The other issue? The Kishiro annoucement didn't have any forum negotiation leading up to it. That means that any negotiation took place through skype deals or PMs, avenues that aren't available to everyone.
