Base balance and other such matters

[Hidamari]

The base commodities usage has been revised, in short the updated behaviour is:

• Players cannot dock at bases if the shield is up

I cant say i honestly agree with this, people should be able to dock and leave whenever they want to just like with every other base in the game.

Using the Bowex "Kings Cross Station" as an example

This station is in a location where it would most likley have been build should it have been a normal station placed by the original freelancer creators, and that is at a point close to the main artery of bretonian space at the New London to Cambridge gate.

Its location means that everyone that comes past the station will shoot at it out of curiousity, hostile or not, "oh a base.. pew pew pew.. its got a shield.. i'll be on my way" which happens at least 10 times or more per day every day. there are only 6 base admins from the command of Bowex and none of us can be around every second of the day to turn off the shield because one of our guys cant land until it goes down.

please do not do this, its fine for pirate bases hidden several 10's of K off the plane, but not for lawful corporations for the above reasons.

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