(12-31-2012, 02:56 PM)Anaximander Wrote: yours is very very different (and so was the efl one in t31 which i liked and tried to defend but in vain), its not placed dead center in a busy lawful trader junction, in front of a capital lawful planet.
also why should lawful traders from well-respected corporations be forced to make dealings with hogosha dogs? It seems like one of those things where KNF/KSP should be mediators to ensure the traffic to their capital world isn't hindered, rather than forcing their business partners to get their hands dirty and deal with unlawfuls/quasi-lawfuls/semi-lawfuls/etc.
Thing is, the Hogosha in Disco are a corporation the same as any other corporation. They are a lawful corporation within Kusari. The base is not set to fire indiscriminately at every passing trade ship. On the contrary, it only shots at those ships hostile to the base, the same as *any* NPC base does.
Edit: Tunicle: I would hazard the guess it was a combination of funding and the desire to keep the base in Kusari hands rather than outside bidders. If the base had been sold to a non-kusari faction they could easily have set the base to shoot everyone not on its green list, and we all know how difficult it is to successfully siege a core 4 base. A lawful Kusari faction was chosen as buyer so that it would stay in Kusari hands.