Attacking Player Owned Bases

[Haste]

Thinking about this some more, what irks me most is that this promotes metagaming. A lot.

Imagine that I, John the Marduk, post in some weird mindshare thread a fancily-photoshopped image of a player base with some odd semi-Nomad-speech below it about death and destruction.

Now I'm obliged to post in an out-of-roleplay thread that I'm going to blow up this base or die trying. Cool. I understand why.

What's the owner gonna do however? If the base is ill-supplied, they're going to have a couple convoys heading to it with shield fuel and repair commodities. Do they have an inRP reason for this? No, they actually don't, but I think we can all agree that very few people would knowingly let their base be ill-prepared for a siege they know is coming.

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