Nomads Are Not Food

[Grumblesaur]

Just restrict caps to ZoI.

And add balanced ZOI to all IDs with capital ships.

I'm surprised to find myself in agreement with the two of you, although I would add that this wouldn't prevent squads of fighters and bombers going far out of their ZoI just to attack Nomads. It's up to debate as to whether this is desirable or not, but I'm inclined to think that most factions aren't going to have squid hunters among their ranks.

As such, I think that if we were going to enforce this with ZoI rules, we'd want factions (at least, factions with access to caps) to have two regions of their ZoI:

• Central zone of influence (CZoI)
  
• Peripheral zone of influence (PZoI)
  

The CZoI would be where the faction can fly any ship class without restriction. The PZoI would be on the fringe of where the ID holder can go. After describing which systems are in what part of the ZoI, we could list the privileges of that ID in accordance with the applicable zones. For example:

Zone of Influence:

• Central: <list system names here>
  
• Peripheral: <list system names here>

The holder of this ID is granted the following privileges:

• All systems:
  • May attack in self-defense if attacked.
    
  • May trade and escort traders.
    
  • May fly fighters, bombers, freighters, transports, and liners.
• Whole ZoI:
  • May enforce laws and policies of the faction.
    
  • May engage hostile targets, unlawfuls, and violators of laws.
• Central ZoI:
  • May fly capital ships.
• Peripheral ZoI:
  • May engage in piracy against factions X and Y.

This could even be generalized into different zones for different factions as their lore and game mechanics require, but I don't think it's worth thinking too hard about that here.

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