Move PoBs from the Mining Fields

[Binski]

From a Xenos perspective however (I'm also in XA, joined before I made JM fyi) those POBs are harmful for gameplay. As I said earlier in this thread, if the faction in question would take out their Arbiter to defend PR instead of rely on two near-invincible POBs that'd be a lot more fun for Xenos to interact with. However, sadly that is not the case and the moment a Junker ship jumps into Puerto Rico it's absolutely pointless to pursue. Congress ships tend to loiter in Puerto Rico, so when you're searching for activity but see 5 Congress ships holed up inside Puerto Rico, there's no point logging on at all. Ask XA Garrett. We share this opinion.

So lay off the vindictive and poor reasoning as to why I believe the placement of those POBs isn't healthy.

Two words...'Oyster Creek'

If it hadn't been for a mistake on the forum the XA would have successfully entrenched themselves smack dab in the middle of the Grand Negre. And due to that mistake it was not only moved, but had its core 2 upgrade pushed through what seemed to me, a little too fast. Not to mention I've never heard of any unlawful bases getting away with masquerading as Freelancer stations (even though its affiliation shows as Xenos). It became painfully obvious that there were admin connected XA players, and LPI/LSF/LN players that either wanted it there or were complacent towards its existence, even long after the forum mistake, with what I`m sure would be a claim of `balance` in doing the Xenos a favor. Basically because of an oorp mistake, that base is now untouchable, and any attempt to RP around its existence is considered 'metagaming' because any discovery of it can be accused of a meta from the original forum mistake. Will a line ever be drawn? Its quite an intricate RP set up to keep that place's Xenos connection hidden inrp from the authorities, which means they all know and play along by choice. I can' think of any other bases that get that kind of treatment.

As to PR, most guard systems are guarded at their jump holes/gates by POB's. I think the Xenos problems stem from far more than just the placement of LF. There are no Junker Congress bases protecting the Premium Scrap fields, so the Xenos don't have the aforementioned problem of being blocked from them if wanting to attack scrap miners...not being able to follow them into their guard system after the fact, is not as harmful a problem.

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