Thank you everyone

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if you cannot kill the other side off, how are you going to win? 'we kept on fighting over the same ball of rock over and over again'... are you waiting for the other side to get bored? Ive seen this happen on a freelancer server, and it killed it off. mod dl's dropped. activity dropped. server died. (RAW anyone?)

However, this suggestion has merit: you can't kill a fighter, but u can keep him from fighting... you can hit his convoys. Remember the traders, the freighter pilots? NO WAR CAN BE WON WITHOUT A MERCHANT NAVY. so lets include them in wars; if you wanna kick the other faction out of a system, go for their traders: they will have to protect them, pulling fighters away from the battle, making less fighters available for: 1. attacking your convoys, 2. policing tradelanes against pirates, saboteurs and agents provocateurs.
Of course, then you will be facing the same problems, and then it comes down to a question of strategy, timing, and basically, who is the better general.

At this point, the lines between RP and RL blur: you really ARE fighting a war. You hate the other side with an intensity that churns up your guts, and there is not a moment when you slip out of RP, because the question of RP is completely irrelevant: no longer will it be a problem of 'not entering the system for four hours'; those bastardos just took down your convoy, robbing you of the fuel that would have kept your fighters going for months - YOU NEED THAT FUEL. YOU NEED TO MAKE THEM PAY. YOU NEED TO RAISE YOUR GAME.

and your worried about losing a few blocks of cargohold?

I like this. I think it's essentially true...sure seen symptoms of it with many players.

In short--what is appealing to those of us who like the idea, is that it introduces one more level of strategy.

Instead of long term having "all the strategy of checkers and the excitement of chess" it does put a little more play in things.

I do however draw the line at toilet paper. If that is introduced as a commodity I refuse to leave battle to go get some because my ship does not have a toilet.

My silent protest.

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