Admin Notice: Factions

[AeternusDoleo]

Oh, okay. So you're trying to tell me that a corporation with the know how to terraform entire planets would be bought up by a shipping corporation. Or the sole faction capable of constructing lanes and gates for that matter.

Yes. Considering the players only run the space defense and logistics parts of those corporations. If Ageira/Planetform/Synth outsource that part to dedicated haulers (who have better experience in those matters anyway) it would simplify things a lot.

I've got a better idea. Allow people to hire these factions. Allow people to hire Planetform for terraforming operations, allow people to hire Ageira to construct gates and lanes. Allow people to hire DSE to turn their playerbases into permanent ones.

Stop keeping this stranglehold on every little microcosm of Discovery, devteam. Player facilitated change is what drives people to do great things, instead of just random krieg or sitting around and cybering.

Set up a proper system for it. ie; Planetform is contracted to terraform a world, like they currently have been with Murilo. They construct a playerbase in orbit of the planet and deliver a specific amount of goods to it and get paid a certain amount of money from their employers each month until the next mod version, with which the planet draws closer to completion, going from say a frozen wasteland to a Harris type planet, or an ocean one to a Los Angeles type one.

As is proven by both Harris and Ayr, it takes several hundred years to terraform a planet. This period is WAY too long for players to influence.

The same system can be applied to permanent bases, jumpgates, and tradelanes. Stop trying to point the finger elsewhere. If you want people to continue playing this game, you're going to need to loosen your grips and allow people to change things.

The economy balance is heavily dependant on where bases, jumpgates/holes and lanes are in respect to eachother. I don't think you quite realise how complex the economy is. Over 50 goods, times 100 bases, times 100 destinations. That's well over 500000 potential entries (and I took a low estimate on both numbers) that need to be checked when the galaxy takes it's final shape for a version. Yea, we keep that on a "tight grip" so we don't end up with a 500+ cr/s run across a single system or similar.

If there are any factions that should be merged, it's the generic trade ones, of which Gateway/Bowex and Universal/Interspace fit the bill. The in RP tensions between Kishiro/Samura and DHC/Kruger should be kept in place.

Gateway/Bowex have severe tension as well - if anything, Bowex/BMM and Gateway/IMG would be fair matches. Universal/Interspace is a poor match since Interspace is not a pure Liberty organisation.

Note: This is just my personal opinion, not neccesarily reflecting the rest of dev central.

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