Aliens killing transports without a demand is bad for gameplay

[Lythrilux]

I'm not arguing further because you'll never change your opinion and I will never change mine. Nothing you say can convince me that your ideas are any better than the current way things are done. Space is dangerous and should remain dangerous. If it stops being dangerous, it stops being interesting. Obtaining valuable minerals should not be easy and should be time consuming. It should take a lot of effort to get these materials, and it should be a risk to the lives of the people involved. This is how the Omicrons should be and are intended to be. Dangerous, violent and distant parts of space where nobody is your friend and everyone wants to get ahead of you.

There are fine lines between dangerous, interesting, and fun. As Vasko said, people silently engaging ships on radar or ganking them right at the undock points at their bases is 'dangerous, but we don't do that because it would be awful for gameplay and discourage people from playing the game.

A system covered by numerous sides, nearly all wanting to tear other apart, you want system like this to be totally safe. Difficulty to Beginner. That's not the point. Also, I'm terribly sorry for hurting your inspirations here. Like Nomads shouldn't be aggressive.

Replying to you and Vendetta: people also keep forgetting (out of ignorance, probably) that Nomads are not the only ID with Omicron ZoI. There are plenty of IDs that can provide equal opportunity for threat and danger to people wanting to mine and trade in the region, without leaving a negative impact on gameplay. Piracy, cargo demands etc. I don't get why people are looking at this in such a black and white way. It's really not hard people, come on.

I'd hire better escorts. Establish a security perimeter and a scout to warn the transports of incoming danger. Set up a fall-back point as a contingency to divert the transports and miner out of harms way while the escorts combat/distract the incoming hostile. This would allow the operation to be secure. I'd also comm one of the following to set up a contract: FL-ER, BHG, Auxilia Coalition. Just to name a few mercenary-based groups that could use a contract thrown their way for activity.

THERE ARE LITERALLY DOZENS OF OTHER ROUTES THAT OFFER THE SAME OR BETTER PROFIT AND HAVE NONE OF THE PROBLEMS/RISKS OR A NEED TO HIRE ESCORTS OUTLINED IN THIS THREAD. READ BEFORE YOU REPEAT THE SAME, USELESS, IRRELEVANT POINT AGAIN.

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