Solution to NewYork over-population problem

[Xing]

Xings proposal on the termination of too-many-idiots-flying-with-no-real-rp-reasons-in-new-york

Here's the idea.

Change the starting point to a more neutral ground. Among such places, Harris is a good one, far from Liberty, yet not too far. Ames, FP 2 and Curaco, are possible candidates due to lower leveled NPCs, but not that good since its nearer to new york. I crossed out the far away freeports and planet kurile, etc (too far away, too near strong pirate presence, nothing really of interest anyway and other factors)
Hence, it's about the neutral stations between the systems conecting each house from another.

I analysed the situation, and here are the following reasons, I believe they are qutie global, as to WHY people are sticking to new york.
-It is your starting place
-Most populated place= feel like populating it even more
-people feels like they can go all oorp since its starting place
-weapons dealer are all stacking here
-a highly profitable route pass by here.
-Most credit transfers, are done here
-Capship driver like to show off their ship
-one of only a few places where mercs can succesfully get hired
-SA and LSF, among the most numerous faction of the server (I think?)
-Easy ressources for starters
-Easy NPCs

My solution and their solving the problems:

FIRST: change the starting place to a neutral ground. My suggestions:
-Harris:
advantages: at an ideal distance of overpopulated new york, start up in an interesting atmosphere, putting you directly with the kusari-bretonian war (immediate immersion with server important part of storyline), add up kusari or bretonian population which is severly in lack of, unpopulate new york
disadvantage: far from easy to start up ressources, missions too hard for newbies, dangerous environment in mine fields, system only partially trade lined can be annoying to newbie, dangerous environment due to kusari-bretonian raid, few activities of importance in the area

-Curaco/Ames/Freeport 4/Freeport 2
advantage: Easiest NPCs of all my suggestions, near places of easy to get ressources for newbie (ship, commodities), unpopulate New York
disadvantage: effect probably less or more apparent as new york is only a few jumps away

-Hegoland/Yanagi/that GMG station in s-13 I forgot the name
advantage: quite far away from New York, interesting start up place, important trade route around, populate kusari or rheinland
disadvantage: worse than harris, extremely dangerous environment (wild, corsair, outcast, etc etc), very far away from easy to get ressources
I'll follow on suggestion 1 and 3, as I believe 2 isnt good enough due to the magnetism New York is, too near.

The amerlioration to make, mod and server side:
-make more newbie ship available in the vicinity
-reduce surrounding NPC levels (the system itself and those around)
-remove a few of the cheaper ships in liberty. Transfer them to these areas.
-easier missions. Also, make missions worth a bit more. Enough to eventually buy a good freighter, not enough to build up millions over it. Say, a mission of 5k could be worth 10K instead.
-A much more neutral reputation.

The amelioration people on server should do:
-Pirates, reduce your taxation fee accordingly to player level. Not very RP, but we should be fair to starters. for instance, 2M on someone who just bought his transport, is harsh.
-Lawful, can extends their patrols in these suggested neutral areas (in the case of sigma 13). Due to already high pirate activities, they wont linger around, but will be active, clashing with pirates and hopefully, rp. A good immersion for newbies.
-Gun dealers, should immediately change their trading points to places such as New Berlin or Honshu (in the case of sigma 13 being chosen), or Leeds (in the case of Bretonia). Maybe your profits will drop slightly at the beginning, but if your customer thinks for the good of the server, they should move too, and your profit should be back on in no time.



Not very final, Id like it to be developed with the various ideas of the community.
Basically, its I believe, quite easy to do. The real work is about finding appropriate bases and ships to sell newbie ships to starters.

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