' Wrote:Right, so, Planets are big places. In Disco, they hold about 98% of the population. This has a couple implications: the first that they hold more than one faction, and probably many factions (for instance, Planet Manhattan, while nominally under the control of the LPI, has regions which are owned by Ageria, or DSE, or Universal, enclaves run by the xeno movement, rogue bases, etc). To say any of the criminal factions of a system cannot land on its nominally lawful planet seems a bit ridiculous, but with the Docking ring, one expects, as the current rules seem to indicate, that only the system powers would ever land on a planet, and that planetary powers generally have everything in hand. I'd argue that this is very much not the case, and that, even though planets are nominally lawful, it shouldn't be a breach of rules or rp for an unlawful, or even an enemy agent of another house, to land there.
Secondly, Docking Rings are....rings. In space. For...landing. But once through the ring? Your ship continues to fly through the air, under its own power. Sooo...explain that to me? Ideally, I'd argue that docking rings should be removed altogether, and the planet's death feild replaced with a docking area....but I do not believe docking areas can be that big (correct me if I'm wrong?), but only a docking area that will accept smallish ships. Larger ships should be moored, as atmospheric entry....you can imagine.
Thus the difference between make believe and reality. There's way too many people here that wanna make these rings and mooring fixtures into something that could be real ... but you'd have to break the laws of physics (specifically orbital mechanics) to get them to work. Keep in mind that ALL planets, bases, stations, mines, rocks, etc are static (ie: they don't orbit around the central sun).
So ... until someone can get the game to emulate reality we gotta work with what we got. Unfortunately we gotta deal with the micro-role players who can come up with the most interesting excuses for why YOU have to act the way they expect you to ... funny how the stuff never applies to them though.
