Docking ring weaponry

[Lythrilux]

More or less most of the people here campaigning that 'core worlds are inRP defended' and need these defences that are bad for gameplay actually complained about the Capital ship battle groups that stood at the jump holes in Omicron Rho. In principle, it stood for the same thing that these docking rings do: they were deterrents against hostile players, yet were passive and didn't 100% block people out. Still, they were eventually removed from the holes because some of the same people in this thread complained (I quote Vipex - they were a "huge problem" supposedly although they weren't really).

Whilst Rho's current design is a poor and needs to be redone to assert The Core's actual position in Omicron Rho because right now as a whole it undermines it, simply taking away the capitals from the holes and making things easier for raiders seriously isn't a bad thing (before anyone tries to call me on hypocrisy I had never had a problem with moving the caps away from the holes). That alone doesn't destroy any of "MUH IMMERSIVE RP" (although outright deleting one of the other cap groups and refusing to put them back is pretty poor Vipex, but that can hopefully be remedied by someone else) and neither would removing or toning down the defences of docking rings.

Hell at the least non-house groups currently don't have any of their docking rings explained, why would they even have such advanced defences too?

All changing these defences does is make things better for gameplay and server interactions. If you want to be reminded of the control of the system check the patrol paths, political influence or just read a damn infocard. The justification of "it makes inRP sense!" to justify poor gameplay is a bit piss poor. Personally I wouldn't have a gripe with these defences at all if players were at least competently aware of the other players enjoyment and honorable enough to keep their distance away from Planets rather than shield running to them at the first chance.

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