(03-08-2015, 02:41 PM)Xoria Wrote: I don't see what you are trying to accomplish here. Which commodity routes, specifically are you trying to affect?
The purpose of this change is to get rid of the ability to forgo traversing House Space if you're going between the Taus and Liberty. Currently, one doesn't have to go through either Bretonia or Kusari because of this route, which removes a lot of potential activity for the House factions, particularly between cardamine/slaves smugglers and the KSP/BPA/other lawfuls. More than just them are affected, of course, and the primary goal here is actually not driven by economics, Xoria. Instead, the intent is to force the people who benefit from not going through Kusari or Bretonia to take more risks by actually doing so, plausibly generating more activity within those Houses. At the moment, sailing through Baffin and Coronado, the likelihood of being challenged with RP/PvP/anything along the way is too low and the route is too safe.
You may not find many smugglers taking the Tau routes considering how Sigma 21 offers both Corsairs and Outcasts the quickest routes into Liberty, ironically enough by bypassing the whole of Kusari and Rheinland (21 into Oita and Hamburg respectively). Unless that system is over 300k across and packed full of thoroughly upset nasties, you're gonna be hard pressed to find someone unwilling to risk it to knock 4-5 systems from their route.
