Aliens killing transports without a demand is bad for gameplay

[Lythrilux]

Why do Nomads deserve to be an exception to griefing?

They're not, but if you consider every hostile action that isn't done to excess griefing then there's a serious issue with how you perceive gameplay.

It makes players not want to log. There's really no two ways about it. It's griefing. You can say "man up" to every single transport in the Omicrons, but when there's none left (which is basically the situation now) who are you going to say it to?

Hire escorts. Establish security. "why bother?" is just as bad of an attitude. If you never bother, you miss out on opportunities of activity generation. Your mining zone in the Omicrons is under attack by the Nomads? Then why isn't The Core addressing the matter? Protect your territory. Saying it's protected versus actually protecting it are two different things, and one has way more weight than the other in the short and long term.

Don't want to get insta-killed? Expect that going there is going to be dangerous and that you are likely to get shot. Go prepared.

Better luck next time, bud.

Have you practised what you preach? This is a very unique scenario. Xenos killing transports in NY is nowhere near the same as "cloaked OP battleships and caps supported by dual razor SHFs that undock 14k away from the field". And once again you've failed to read my post; why bother going through all that effort to hire innumerable escorts to counter all of that when there are literally dozens of other routes with same or greater profit with half or even less risk? Can you name another route where having a cloak disruptor is mandatory? People aren't going/want to put themselves through all of this crap for fun - this is about trying to make activity by attracting trade activity, and decent profits and player experience are an essential part of that. As it stands, the way things are now, they just utterly deter all interesting trade activity from the Omicrons. Since making this thread I have had people in Discord literally tell me the reason they never fly transports in the Omicrons is exactly because of Aliens /l1ing and /l2ing their transports as soon as they see them.

Your stance towards this is the one that would leave us with zero players if applied on a wider scale. Fortunately, we have had rules and regulations implemented in other regions of the mod. But In terms of trade activity at least, the severe lack of it is already happening in the Omicrons. If we want any ambient activity at all there, we need to address this issue.

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