Remove POB regulation double standards from rules

[Laura C.]

How about option 1 with some checks and balances?

> these house militaries, police and/or intel factions must proclaim their assault on the base via a yet-unscheduled event (not necessarily iRP publicly-proclaimed), stating the reasons for such and RP proof already present upon thread creation, and attackers must also pay a start-up fee of 1,000,000,000 Credits; thread must then be green-lit by an admin, who will then delegate the task of overseeing the event to a moderator deemed having the least bias for the event; the event will be automatically scheduled to happen 14 days right after a moderator has been elected;

> within the first 7 days, the moderator must make sure base owner has seen the thread and that the base owner MUST post an OORP-reply in the event thread acknowledging that they see it, otherwise the attackers may then attack at any time in the other 7 days and beyond due to absentee base owner;

> when base owner has proven they've seen it, they have until the day of the attack to implement the following steps to negate the attack:
1.) creating a post detailing logical and iRP reasons why the base is not susceptible to attack, which will be analyzed among the moderators and the admins; options include, but are not limited to:
^ dense asteroids, sensor inefficiency due to nebula, etc. environmental hazards, only when they apply
^ base owner hires powerful lawyers that discourages attack without roleplay repercussions
^ base owner hires random freelancers to sabotage the attack from reaching fruition
2.) paying the moderator a sum of credits (who will hand it to the admins), depending on the base's current core level (costs below are not final and are still subject to fairness and balance arguing):
^ Core 1: 1,000,000,000 Credits
^ Core 2: 2,000,000,000 Credits
^ Core 3: 3,000,000,000 Credits
^ Core 4: 4,000,000,000 Credits
^ Core 5: 5,000,000,000 Credits

> should base owner be unable to follow these steps, they can at least pay 500,000,000 Credits to the moderator and then make a post detailing that they've hacked into the comms of the attackers and thus have iRP knowledge of the assault; without this step, it will be a breach of RP to suddenly fortify the base before and during the attack for no apparent reason (which for rules-wise consists of adding weapons platforms and/or shield generators when there weren't any originally, and/or having more than two players actively guarding the base), thus the base owner and the defenders will be sanctioned

EDIT:
> should the attackers be unable to destroy the base on the day of attack due to any number of reasons above and during the assault, they will have to either bump the event thread or create a new one, and repeat the entire process again, with all the prerequisites stated above.

This is just my 2 Credits. Thoughts?

You propose very difficult system which will make huge burden on staff which is already overloaded. In some cases it would takes weeks before it will be processed. Also I don´t think that admins want to get into position where they will judge bases and their "right to live" unhindered. It will create even more cry about bias, skypefriends and such, which community is full of already.

Not to mention - paying a BILLION (!) credits for every illegal base house lawfuls need to remove? Seems you think, that house lawfuls are sitting on tens of billions (like some trading factions). You must be joking with this. And how is that fair considering that POB builder pays nothing for the construction? Costs of core 1 base definitely aren´t billion credits.

Also, you are giving huge advantage to people which has billions of credits on their accounts. Newbies really can´t pay billions of to get special help tools. Not to mention you are settting up situation where those who can´t pay 500 million credits can´t even properly defend their base. That is unacceptable as well.

This system would be totally impractical and unbalanced. Imagine typical situation where house lawfuls kill a base. They find some POB which was constructed without permission and on top of that in location which is not tolerated (typically too close to some NPC base or planet, or in restricted military area). There is no way how this base can be permitted, thus it is subject for destruction. Lawfuls must pay billion credits and then wait god know how long before they are allowed to attack. In the meantime, before staff process the request, the base owner can freely build and fortify his base because until he is contacted by staff, nothing prohibits him from doing this, according to your rules (people don´t wait for attack declaration with building of defense). You are giving POB owner advantage despite it was him who made a mistake, didn´t read the house laws and didn´t contact authorities to get permission. Fun fact, it repeatedly happened that some stubborn player created base repeatedly in such manner.

To sum it up, system you propose is making POB regulation even more tedious and on top of that incredibly expensive. Player owned bases are already exempted from roleplay environment more than enough and protected by rules from roleplay consequencies in many situation and this would make the situation even worse.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.