(07-01-2024, 10:36 AM)Petitioner Wrote: I understand it's probably a little too late for this sort of feedback, but given that the Crown constantly sidelines Gateway for contracts and Gateway is allied to the IMG, would it be possible to switch Gateway from the Bretonian side to the "neutral" side as IMG is? Rogues could then be swapped to the Molly side, as it truly makes no sense for Rogues to be "neutral" given that they are allied to the Mollys, have been since vanilla, and can't even land at the lawful sellpoints anyway. I also certainly don't think that BMM modular station administrators would ever reasonably let Rogues dock with their installations, so having the Rogues be "neutral" here makes no sense especially given that the event plugin does not support cargo piracy (directly, at least).
It would make far more gameplay and roleplay sense for Gateway to be able to run both lawful and unlawful routes, and for the Rogues to be restricted to unlawful ones.
Rogues were already unlawful, that was just a "visual bug", apologies.
Gateway basically don't get the benefit of neutrality because they're a House corp with a registered fleet (aka 5K transport access). This is a similar issue as Freelancers not being allowed the L'ane and Pirate Transport (which I'm still a bit salty about due to SEO). Lawfuls aren't able to "punish" people from doing something illegal in House space, which in the case of Gateway is running the blockade for Mollys. But Bretonia trusts them so much that they're exempt from the Dublin embargo rules, so unless someone sees one undocking from an enemy POB, their hands are tied.
Since not everyone would be using Gateway to smuggle, those who do get the "unfair" advantage of the substantially bigger unlawful bonus. If someone was actually playing the faction and interacting with the Mollys and fending off BPA inrp, we'd probably make an exception here. But at the moment it's mainly theoretical, which unfortunately isn't enough for an exception.
