(05-11-2015, 09:30 AM)jammi Wrote: In any case, looking at the intended cause and the actual effect, they don't match up. As I said previously, the problem has never been lawful pilots in-game crashing corporate piracy while it happens. That very specific and unlikely scenario is literally all this amendment stops. You're patching a non-issue. Instead, the real problem that prevents corporate warfare is revenge reports on the forum.
Unless you have a gentleman's agreement with the factions involved (Bowex has a policy of never reporting Gateway pirates, just killing them over and over for example), you'll end up with screens and chatlogs smeared all across the forums and fines and FR5s out the wazoo when they get to the local police faction.
Look at the write up in the OP and consider how this addresses the above. So long as House laws are applied to those systems, this problem won't go away. As things stand at the moment, all that's happened is the big stomping boots have come out and flattened years of actual RP from military factions and Houses. Similarly, any admin attempt to change those laws there is going to result in years of RP (treaties, in-game activities, etc) being squashed. Like I said, the cause and effect are just fundamentally in conflict here.
And jammi (once again) hits the nail. If there will be reports, there will be consequencies. Even if you enforce that house laws will not be valid in border worlds like O-7/O-3 and you get rid of legal consequencies of your actions, there still will be political consequencies. Or is someone expecting that Rheinland miners will be massacred in Omega-7 by their rivals (doesn´t matter if it will be IMG or BMM) and Rheinland government will be sitting in New Berlin saying to their corporations (which are vital for its collapsing economy) "we don´t care about what´s going on there, we´re not going to help you in any way, it´s your problem, hire better security, mkay?" That would be really reasonable RP...
Even on the wild west (as this comparison is used so often) bad guys like murderers and bandits had to face the consequencies when their crimes were reported and they were caught. I guess you all know that famous "wanted" posters with faces. They really couldn´t go into town and say to sheriff "hey, it didn´t happen here in town, but outside in the wilderness where laws doesn´t apply. You can´t punish me for that!"
Also, I wonder who is interested into changing all those systems into free-for-all shooting arena. Because as far as I know, for example Rheinland official mining factions are not. But once again nobody asked official factions about their opinion. Thus this again raises question what is the official faction status good for because nobody bothers to discuss with you major change which affects your faction´s gameplay.
