Critique: The disco diplomacy system

[Highland Laddie]

@Miloslav - let's put some things in perspective:

For example IMG-Gateway relationship. It's cool, but right now (and probably for last 4 years) it's hard to see they're close parthners.

What about this relationship doesn't make sense to you? Gateway is a smaller, upstart company trying to undermine and supplant a nationalized megacorporation (Bowex). Now Bowex gets most of its shipping rights through exclusive access to BMM (the OTHER nationalized Bretonian corp). What this essentially means is that Gateway is mostly shut-out from having a suitable mining partner in their own country. Now, given IMG's rocky relationship with BMM in the past (which eventually kicked off war between Bretonia and Kusari), it makes sense that they would be willing to partner with Gateway as a means of giving them access/competition against BMM. And Gateway would be foolish to NOT have such a partner, as IMG gives them access to ores that BMM either won't, or would do at a considerable mark-up.