Docking ring weaponry

[Vendetta]

Pirates etc should not be around planetary docking rings anyway without getting shot at and expect to die immediately once moving into the defense perimeter. There's no reason to change it. If unlawfuls want to interact with lawfuls, go to the tradelanes. Go pirate. Do what unlawfuls are supposed to do.

The problem with this statement is that not all unlawfuls are pirates. Theres still terrorists that suffer from this. Not to mention Gallia invading New London. Its just not fun for these people, and sweeping those concerns under the rug with the "lol pirates go pirate" argument just seems one-sided to me.

Last I checked Al Quaida is not rolling up AK-47s in on Times Square expecting to survive. Remember the Order attacking the Donau in the first mission? Those people knew they're going to die. Same goes for invasions. If you invade the enemies' home system, home base, expect to die. A lot.

You're trying to relate groups like the Blood Dragons and Hellfire Legion to radical suicide religous fanatics.

Its difficult when factions like that, who strive off of activity and interaction with lawfuls, who have to go to a place where they know they're going to die just to get ten seconds of fun. What's the point in them playing if people are going to idle by the planets all day? The way I see it, it's harmful to interaction, and is slowly but surely killing off revolutionary factions. Its not just a problem with the weaponry, but the players. Thats a conversation for a different thread.

Here's an example.

If I logged my HF ships to go fly around in New York, the most populated place would be Manhattan. So, I go there, to see whats up, maybe rp, maybe pew some LN/LSF/LPI, who knows, its the house of opportunity. So I get there. I start chatting up some traders, explaining the Commonwealth and our reason for fighting the Republic, how we're against piracy, and then along comes an LN guy to stop me from spreading propaganda. We're both pumped, gonna fight, boom. Docking ring missile. Dead. No one has any fun.

Why block off the most active areas in house to the vast majority of interactions?

Yeah, speaking as the head of one of your mentioned groups, we don't go raiding the very front of our enemy's core worlds to try and get some type of activity. Most of our skirmishes take place away from planets and on the fringes of KNF-patrolled space. Our rare New Tokyo raids are usually out in open space, in the fields, or near other stations. It'd be utterly stupid inRP and OORP to directly attack a planet, given how it'd be the most well-defended location in a system. Any attacks near a planet or on the surface would probably be more like traditional terrorist attacks, and would involve stealth, planning, a willingness to sacrifice oneself, etc.

And guess what? Revolutionary factions shouldn't be exempt from the ability to pirate. Camping the lanes as BD| is acceptable, you just have to be very selective with your targets. This mentality that revolutionary groups are somehow above acquiring resources for their own goals is kinda stupid, but that's a conversation for another day.

Heavily fortified planets and stations in core systems of Houses encourages unlawfuls to not bumrush the capital and instead adopt a more guerrilla-style of warfare. Lawfuls will usually still respond to you if you don't hug the planet.

See, I don't know much about BD stuff as I've never really played them as a faction, or paid attention to their actions, or flown in Kusari for that matter. So for give me for being an ignorant westerner.

Its not a matter of being exempt from piracy, its more so harmful to the "hearts and minds" approach The Legion tries to take. I agree guerilla strikes happen, but in my experience, the most activity is found in orbit, and 90% of the time in New York, they dont give chase. They want you to come in range or the insta death missiles and cancer POB.

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