Unlawful Bases.

[sovereign]

So you mean to tell me that we had chased you all the way to Alcatraz? I know for sure that didn't happen, and I had personally never been Alcatraz and thus unaware it was there at all, but as soon as I was told to turn around, I turned around.

Not until this was posted did I even know we were near a base.

I fully understand your reason to be angry, but the base was not in scanner range for me, this may be due to the fact I still have a crap scanner, but the thing has a 6k range. If the base wasn't within 6k there's no way I would be able to see it with my eyes or my scanner.

I don't know if the vigilantes were base camping prior to the start of the fight, but the 3 LPI flew in from New York, so any base camping prior to the chase is something I'm unaware of.

I can vouch for him, they said they were getting too far into the field and I was still about 10k from Alcatraz. I'm still not happy about calling in reinforcements when you already had us outnumbered 2:1 with shiptype advantage, though...

The Vigilantes ended up killing me when I tried to dock with Alcatraz. Quick dock, that is. I was 5m from it when I exploded. I'd appreciate it if the LPI blow the crap out of them the next time they show up in Liberty, or at least tell them to read their IDs. I didn't see an IFF, did you?



As for the XA incident and Athenian's comment, the bit in question was about a screenshot having two XA kissing Alcatraz on their way out. It has since been resolved and will not happen again, but we don't mean to say that "5-10k is base-camping now", more like "if the base can shoot you, be somewhere else- or at least act like it poses a serious threat".

I'd very much appreciate it if a ship within guns range of its faction's base was considered to have successfully run away, or be allowed to decide whether or not to engage in the case of "base camping". BHG and mercenaries are a little exception to the first bit since their livelihood depends on those blue messages, that I can understand- but opposed factions get as much out of a strategic victory whether their opponent's ship is destroyed or not- maybe more, since they "waste" resources repairing it.

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