Unlawful Bases.

[JakeSG]

I believe the Black Widow has type advantage over Graviton shields.

I posted something along these lines in the LPI chat. It received some enthusiasm.
'We won't follow them into fields to end their miserable lives, if they won't end up on the same god damned lane half an hour later.'
Yes, it is within Rogue RP to run as soon as lawfuls show. However, if you're back twenty minutes later they're eventually going to snap and follow you until you're dead, buying four hours of absence. Whether this is into the fields or straight back to your base won't matter.

No LPI or LN faction players will be camping your bases without getting kicked in the groin and punched in the nose, be sure of that. However if you keep coming back and they get so sick of you that they follow you, it's your own fault for leading them back to the base. Being lead there by unlawfuls is different from sitting around waiting, and seeing as the former has happened here it is, once more, the fault of the unlawfuls involved.

As for the BHG: They know where your bases are. While it is bad form for them to be sitting around waiting for you to show, it is no more ooRP than unlawfuls being within spitting distance of lawful bases. Yes, you have no control over them, but they can do it, and so can the BHG.

And the XA? They know more about the fields than any other unlawful faction par the LH, I'd imagine. However, if Joe ever found one of them sitting near Alcatraz he'd push them below Starblazer and into a 'Flea.

In reference to my original quote, my suggestion is thus: Try something other than Cali/Alcatraz for once. Texas maybe. Perhaps even as far down as Hudson/Bering. There's also Cortez/Magellan which I'm sure the Hackers wouldn't mind sharing. You could try Colorado/Kepler/Galileo if you don't mind the Xeno presence. And before you say 'We do that already', think. I'm a member of the LR too. I know as well as you that we spend 95% of our piracy time sitting in California waiting for traders, even inactive as I am.

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