Quote:The Brets getting busy in Edin means they have to constantly fight off the Gaians (& they would without a doubt, go completely rabid) & be more than a massive drain on the bret war effort, the 2-front fighting probably resulting in the loss of Leeds & eventually making Edin into a massive warzone while they get the everlovin snot beat out of them in one place from multiple enemies. Is it worth the risk?
I agree to an extent; from Bretonia's standpoint, it makes little sense to be expanding industrially and commercially into a new system while they have a war to fund, not to mention provoking yet another hostile group against them.
At the same time, I understand where Unselie's coming from that it may take a really long time for any Bretonian expansion to be put into Disco. Edinburgh feels underused at the moment (to me at least) so from a purely game-improving perspective, I'm all for adding to it. If a new asteroid field is implemented then a BMM base makes the most sense. It also seems that Bretonia's other corporations, Bowex and Gateway, have very few bases so maybe we could add one for them?
Quote:Why would the Gaians let the Mollys even think about building a station in their home turf? Possible future neutrality aside, you cannot put 2 alpha dogs in the same pin, else they spend their time with territorial pissings & eventually rip each others throats out.
As a player who flies his Molly a lot, I gotta say - no more Molly bases for now. We barely even use the one in Cambridge as it's quite out of the way, and there's closer places to pirate in Leeds and NL. Though, I don't agree with the 'ripping each other to parts' bit, since our interests don't really conflict. Most systems share criminal groups anyway and they get along with hugs and kisses :ylove:.
What I'm wondering is - and I don't play a Gaian, so maybe someone who does has a good response - why don't the Gaians have another base somewhere? I know they're a small group and all, but it seems like a lot of effort to get anywhere farther than Leeds. Cambridge seems like a logical choice, the closest they have to allies in Bretonia are in that system, am I right? I even wouldn't be opposed if the Molly base there became Gaian. Also, Cambridge is pretty far from the war front and full of intellectual types who would be against the war, and there's a lot of non-Bretonian presence there already with the Cryer and IMG bases, so it would be logically the safest spot for the Gaians.
Quote:Except, the Hessian high command and a certain part of the general fighting force are still quite idealistic.
Yep, just because the 'ground level' members act like simple criminals does not mean that the leadership doesn't retain its ideals. I'd say a lot of guerrilla movements are like that in real life as well. So even though the groups don't come across each other much, it makes diplomatic sense for them to ally because of their similar roots and shared enemy in the Corsairs.
