How far do we go...

[Rommie]

The introduction of bases has been a major activity and economy stimulant as of late, giving people something to do and something to strive for, and giving targets for people to attack that would actually cause major losses other than logging out for 4 hours.

However the introduction of suck powerful tools have also brought with them dreadful amounts of metagaming.

I have seen BAF and Hessians teaming up against Corsairs, we all saw that.
I have seen pirates using cloaked transports with different IDs to follow traders to their bases, then go back with their pirate characters to trash it.
I have seen indie Liberty Navy ships stock up on Nomad supplies in the Omicrons and hand over the supplies to a pirate base to make cloaking devices.
I have seen independent players paying people at Krupp to make cloaking devices for them.
I have seen a traders with IDs that have nothing to do with a base bringing supplies to a base.

I have seen a lot more things that could get people sanctioned for metagaming information but I am not posting them here because I figure we can figure this out without going that far just yet.

But how far can this stuff go?

I don't really see the problem to be honest. Well, I do see some of it, but its not as big as you're making it it appear.
The 'temporary allied' issue is something that has happened plenty of times, plenty of people complained, yet nothing from the Administration Bureau on the matter. If they actually did address this issue, point me to the thread.
If not, I guess is OKAY. Call it 'war dynamics', or whatever. CR allied with the Outcasts against the GRN, whooped their asses, and then proceeded to murder anything that was left of each other 5 seconds after the last GRN dropped. All sides knew this would happen. And it did.

Pirates tracking ships to their POS', again, more freedom in this game. More dynamics. You don't like freedom? Ask Cannon for a scanner command with a 5 minute cooldown. Shows any cloaked ship in a 14k range on your ship for 10 seconds. Have fun being paranoid.

Navy ships trading with Pirate bases. Some Navy characters have very deep connections with the unlawful world. It's called roleplay. Or virtual reality.

Same thing regarding the indie players. Guess what, few people are here to play the average NPC patrol pilot role.

Traders supplying POS while having a random ID brings you to the previous point. Maybe they're getting something in return.

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