Planet Harris and nothing that makes sense about it

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Before we begin there is something that some members won't understand in game development logic and that I need to drop a basic concept of. Certain gains or losses when it comes to solar objects in-game that represent faction presence usually being resolved in a few ways.

1. Faction A forces fight the forces of faction B. Depending on certain parameters, either winning or losing side may have consequences on the outcome. From complete destruction to no damage at all.
2. Faction A is gaining something without confronting faction B, faction A losses some ground to faction B or faction C elsewhere.
3. Rare cases of faction A is dramatically underrepresented. In this case assets may be added in order to represent the faction properly.

When we will look at the case of the sudden flip of the ownership:
- Changed: Battleship MacDuff moved from Nottingham to Planet Harris, Tau-31
(Player Request) - Changed: Planet Harris, Tau-31 has changed from CR to BPA.
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It falls under neither of those cases. As far as I am aware there was the request from CR official faction regarding this, but this is where our story/Infocard teams come into play. As we all know after Leeds disaster Bretonia is prioritizing colonization of Omega border worlds, investing a lot of military and economic resources into the region. There are two planets in different directions that are under the process of active colonization and Bretonia has efficiently taken control over those systems. Which is fine. Bretonia is overpowering local giant unlawful and quasi-legal factions with the commitment of the whole House.

What is not fine when we will look up into the "northern" direction. When you think of Leeds, where everything Bretonian was simply destroyed, you could imagine it has a lot of things, but heavy Bretonian lawful presence, considering prioritization of the Omegas. However, in fact, the system got nothing BUT Bretonian lawful presence. Durham Outpost which is the Bowex base being magically teleported there and the whole Bretonian fleet that is represented with Battleship Grimsby. That's pretty much it. The system got nothing else, it did not become the arena for various unlawful groups to try and take advantage in the Bretonian border world. Yet another very weird oversight by the development team that by accident happens to favor Bretonia greatly.

It does not end on Leeds, as apparently Bretonia has managed to throw another fleet represented by Battleship Macduff into the system beyond Bretonian borders and BAF ZOI and take over the planet, head it over to BPA, which also has no ZOI in the system. The battleship was taken from Omega-3 apparently, which is the highest priority system for colonization and economic development. And Bretonia was not affected by ANY consequences. Bretonia just happened to take one of the stratic points in the whole region, one of the very few planets that is suited for colonization and lost nothing. Literally nothing.

That would be pretty much the equivalent of the Bretonian portion of Dublin that could be lost to Mollys, for example. if not more, considering Leeds being simply the border world that is fully under lawful control. Even Liberty when committed efforts against Gallia has lost some ground to unlawful in Bering. Bretonia is not yet affected by the same logic as other Houses and did not lose anything at all, quit expected something considerable losses of actually valuable assets. It's able to push in three directions at once, even the northern one that is not much spoken about and not being played a lot by the actual players. Another oversight by the development team that once again is favoring Bretonia exclusively.

I am, of course, very far from the wild thought that there's some conspiracy by certain Bretonian players and certain developers, to an extent where you can draw the line, of course, to bypass recently imposed ZOI restrictions[2].

With Sprague being turned into the equivalent of Cambridge population-wise [3], and it becomes on the line with the planets like Denver, so Liberty players could understand. I can't help by wonder what is going on. There is naturally no place for the community-made meme of Devtonia of 2018, that followed infamous Devfire Legion.

Solutions that make come along with this, in my opinion, are the following:
1. Heavy, overwhelming unlawful presence in Leeds, it means to be an actual border world.
2. Even if kept, Bretonian ownership in Harris is to be transferred to Planetform. The planet is not yet terraformed. BPA and BAF should not have any presence outside of Bretonia lawful ZOI.
3. If Bretonian presence in Tau-31 is kept, Bretonia has to lose ground in systems that are currently not in military priority. Dublin and Mollys seem like the best option.
4. The best, option if for Bretonia to keep on its priorities in Omegas and pull back. There are two planets to colonize already. Harris could be considered not worth investment and left to some neutral party in the region if CR doesn't seem to want to keep it. IMG could fit just in, maybe Zoners, factions that have lost ground to Bretonia in previous updates.

I hope that the quality of the story development improves and existing goofs being fixed as opposed to be forced, as well see massive improvements on Balance and Art departments.

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