Friends shooting Friends

[Rudo]

Here he have sombunall corsairs (small "C"), and other assorted pirates attempting to shake down and/or shoot up IMG miners..

My perspective: A leader of a player faction representing an NPC faction who will become overrun with 'junkers' (small "J") if O-49 is made less and less profitable and people want a piracy-free payday, as well as formerly having to police the most volatile NFZ in 4.84. I know what I'm talking about and how things can degrade if this isn't handled right.

The question lies in the method of tamping down the 'corsairs': will this be handled by 'zoners' and/or more Harris-diseased Bounty Hunter/IMG cap ships? Or will there be an eloquent, elegant solution with hard concise rules and a lot of muscle to back it up?

When the Harvesters and Congress were charged with keeping the peace around Yanagi we saw all kinds of nonsense. I can't offer a lot of hard advice except that you should clearly define a set of regulations, and be prepared to police them mercilessly and remorselessly. Only after a few righteous cullings with a lot of witnesses will people even listen to you, one way or another.

I'm not going to say that the Congress/Harvester defense of Yanagi was a runaway success, because it wasn't and it made me want to quit my post a good number of times. People will whine, they will lie, they will say anything as a player to get out of hard reprecussions for their character. To this day it's had a hard impact on my urge to interact with the Discovery community as a whole.

Whatever you do, do it right and make sure you want to do it. That's all I can offer.

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