The NY-Alaska gate was something that I was making heavy use of when I first started out on Disco, before I put on my RP hat and gave it a good think over.
I sincerely doubted that my humble trader was going to be getting that big 'ol gate to crack open for me under normal circumstances. Since then I've never touched the thing.
However, that being said myself and the XA vicariously through me is dead guilty of abusing the thing. When our fellows move on up to the Eagle and Preagle they cruise through Alaska to get their kit rather than take the loooooooooongcut around Rheinland.
It's certainly bad form, but then nothing about a Xeno flying through one of the most hypothetically heavily fortified systems in Sirius to land on a planet full of sentient apes in order to secure himself a fighter makes a whole lot of sense. We just sort of close our eyes, plug our ears and spend 5 minutes being horribly oorp.
Suppose we should be helping the example though, and oorp or not, avoid running through Alaska.
