So what's up with bases and Roleplay?

[Luke.]

Personally I believe they're a feature that encourage the use of transports for other causes than making money, which in turn encourages better and more opportunities for piracy. As pointless as they may be apart from an extra docking point, it would be of no benefit to take them out of the game.

It might be very Skype (and therefore OoRP heavy) but try co-ordinating a big attack without getting people to log in the first place and get to the system/base in question. Kind of unavoidable.

In this case however, I do see your point. Yes, that's a ridiculous alliance, the nomads shouldn't even be getting involved unless they're just going to shoot at everyone. Did they shoot at each other after? I don't think the question is "are they beneficial" but more "Are they just appealing to trigger-happy players" that for whatever reason, think breaking RP is an excuse to fire at something.

Just a personal opinion though, I wasn't there. Just RP wise that is really, really silly.

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