(12-31-2012, 01:08 PM)Tigger Wrote: Yuki does make a good point in regards to Hogosha being shot at in the Sigmas and thus GMG being hostile to the base gets them shot at.
However, it's no different than the previously mentioned issue with Junkers getting shot at by the Exiles battleship in Leeds, or any group of NPCs you may be hostile to that turn any random station red even if you're neutral to that station.
King's Cross shoots at my Molly smuggler if I get close to it in New London and I have to go allllll the way to the Cambridge jump hole instead. Thing is, I don't make a thread to complain to Bowex about it because hey, we're hostile to each other so the base shooting at me makes sense.
Corsairs built a base in Cambridge at the O5 jump hole, and one in Gamma as you come in from O41. The fact that my mercenaries, indie Coalition and Hessian ships get shot at by these bases is due to those ships being hostile towards Corsairs. It's kind of expected.
When the Rheinland and Gallia government delegations arrived in New Tokyo several months ago, the npc IC base Roppongi shot at those ships because they were red to IC.
What I am pointing out here is that such things happen in game every single day by both the default NPC bases which have been around forever as well as the player built bases. The options are there, fix the problem ship's reputation; stay clear of the area; or *role play* with the station's faction to find an amicable solution.
It's not far removed from the days before player bases, there's just more options to get around the problem.
But under most circumstances, a hostile player base with battleship-grade defence systems isn't placed outside a homeworld for the sole purpose of giving any ship with x reputations a hard time. Delegations are also a slightly different can of worms, given that they aren't something coded into the game - rather events led by players. It can't exactly be compared to what is in effect a criminal organisation using a station to kill things because they're mad they die in the Sigmas.
My concern here is not that the station is run by the Hogosha where it is, but how the Kusari government could justify letting it stay there. To quote Yuki:
