It's funny that most of these rules would make GMG OP. So since we are on the theme, let me input these right away:
-There should be rules against faction laws or house laws from deterring role play in their space. If you do not want to play with other groups, why are you even here?
-Official factions should be held accountable for unprofessional or unrealistic role play. If an official faction, especially a corporation, behaves irrationally (which includes the killing of innocent civilians), there should be a way for others who hear about the atrocities to penalize that faction.
-There should be a system in place for factions that are active by time only, unable to role play/behave respectfully, or are otherwise viewed as a threat to the integrity of the game, to be voted out of power and a new official faction leader implemented. This reduces the chances of a faction becoming unable to role play with.
-Rules governing POB attacks prior to siege declaration must be enforced. If not, exceptions should be clearly defined in the rules. At what point is a CD launched against a POB to purposefully raise the shields different from spamming CDs to drain the shield prior to a siege? 1? 2? 3? People who do this also dip into exploitation.
But let me go ahead and nit pick your "ideas":
(04-11-2022, 03:23 AM)Mephistoles Wrote: Let's imagine you are the one administrator and developer for Discovery, the sole person in charge of all aspects of the game, from ID lines and server rules to system layouts and ship stats. What would you do, add, or change? For example, my initial thoughts would be:
-Remove Outworlders, restore all to Zoner
-Make the Zoner ID generic (otherwise unchanged, can still use 5k, caps etc) That would imply that the Zoners faction is dead. Unless the community wants this, that is a terrible idea.
-Make Zoner caps civilian That would mean, within role play, ANYBODY can fly a battleship. Are you on drugs? -Make it so GMG can fly them
-Add a rule that pobs may not be placed closer than 5k to any other dockable object, including other pobs You mad bro??? But also this will limit owners from stacking POBs to create economic centers. What about current POBs in this configuration?
-Give police IDs exclusive utility equipment, such as a CD with longer range and cheap cloak disruptor, also with longer range, bought from NPC vendor Is actually not a bad idea. Lawful police factions are either very inactive or dead with limited equipment. This has drug wars/smuggler balancing implications
-Ditch the wonky canonisation system, handle ingame mod additions for original official player factions on a case by case perk request basis This should include a faction, such as a mining corporation, from being retconned into a militarized clan or, should I say... guild? Also case by case perk request... isn't that a thing already, to include SRPs?
-Rework ore by reducing number of fields, balancing them all to be equal to mine/trade, increasing competing faction overlap in mining fields (very easier said than done) Yes, and while we're at it, create a rule or system that deters other groups or factions from accessing those mine fields
-Buffing the base price of ore to perhaps 3,000 credits on any base outside the system they are mined in so you can sell any you "happen" across anywhere, while maintaining system of primary sellpoints and fencesI'll let the econ dev answer to that one
-Revamp economy putting ore at 1200csu, adding a singular(ish) round trip smuggling route with multiple stops throughout Sirius at 800csu, regular commodities to 400csu (maybe even higher numbers) Again, have you tried reaching out to the econ dev?
Everything is hypothetical. Be nice. <):¬) We all know you lack integrity so, no surprise... <):¬)
It ain't about what you are capable of, it's about what you're willing to do.
