Unlawful Bases.

[tansytansey]

Firstly.. a little fun fact... pirates whine and moan when lawfuls go near their bases.. yet are always near lawful bases. Where they would get killed very fast for being near.... yet we don't whine and complain nearly as much.
Secondly, the LPI has never been one to "camp" lawful bases, and will almost always peel off if heading too close to one. Of course this assumes we know the base is there. I mean, we fly into a junk field... how are we to know we are headed to a rogue base? if we randomly run into a previously unknown base... its not our fault. (RP speaking)

Now... we will make sure our members know to avoid unlawful bases as best as they can, but mistakes happen.

You don't think I know that? We try very hard to discourage base camping. No LR will do it, and any that do will be busted down to a Bloodhound for 7 hours. And that is a completely different affair to chasing a pirate to their base.
Lawful bases by in large are well known. Unlawful bases are mostly unknown. Montezuma is the only Liberty Rogue base that might be known by the LN. It makes no sense that any lawful would get with in spitting distance of Alcatraz and make it out alive, especially a squad of Liberators.
It's very easy for a lawful to make a quick escape to a base and dock when loosing, yet no one wants to give up the chase on an unlawful until they are forced to. This leaves us two options: Flee to our bases or sundive. Which would you prefer?

Everyone knows where unlawful bases are outside of RP. All I ask is that people have some common decency and break off before you get with in scanner range of the base. Metagaming isn't so much of a bad thing when it's done justly. It helps protect RP, prevent base camping and promote fairplay, even if the pirate in question does not deserve it.

Once again, I ask that people stop flying to unlawful bases. Not just in Liberty, but all over the place. Your blue message can come another day, be satisfied that you had good RP and a good fight. You won, you don't need a system message to clarify that.
At the very least I ask that faction members ask their members to respect these wishes. As official factions we are expected to act mature and respectful towards each other, especially our foes. It saddens me that I've had two instances in two days of members of official factions chasing pirates to Alcatraz. One of my Rogues is very upset that he was killed by a XA when he was trying to talk them into leaving Alcatraz after they had camped the base for 10 or more minutes, so much so that he left our skype chat in frustration.

I realise there is nothing we can do to stop independents, once their minds are made up. But is it too much to ask that official faction members at least respect this? I know I'd slap/demote/make any Rogue fly a Bloodhound for camping Ouray, or Manhattan, and it's not pleasant to know your respected enemies will not do the same. Our factions may be enemies, but we are all brothers and sisters. This is a gaming community, after all.

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