Docking ring weaponry

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The issue here is not that we want to actively encourage the raiding of capital planets.

I think this here pretty much sums it up. You want to break every part of lore, written in infocards or via commons sense, just to "promote interaction." Sorry, but it's not going to change anything. If anything, lawfuls will build more PoBs in front of capital planets instead of relying on NPC station defenses, and next thing is that people will cry for a nerf of PoB platforms.

Can we stop trying to fix every single problem that appears in the game by looking at it from a balance perspective? Let the people work around it. Scourge earlier brought up a quote about most factions that are affected by this, and still have very much enough of "activity". As I brought up multiple times with discussions, there is such a thing as toxic activity. Griefing, ruining other people's fun, et cetera. Remember the video Spazzy posted early in this thread? And that's exactly what this is going to do. You're trying to make it possible for pirates to attack capital home worlds, worlds inhabited by millions, billions of people, and expect to see another day, even get blues. Because this is what this about. Blues.

PvP does not always have to end in a blue. I've said it before and I'll say it again. PvP does not have to end in a blue. We have conn for that. Let people play their roles, retreat and reinforce, etc. This game might be a "space shooter", but the RP should always take precendent over non-gamebreaking gameplay issues. And I think we have established that multiple factions do not have issues with the way the docking rings are defended. Many of those factions and leaders that have posted in here are on the red side of the docking ring. The problem lies somewhere else.

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