Guard Systems

[ugliestmoose]

Wow, the level of hostility in this thread to a genuinely thoughtful idea is baffling to me. Instead of throwing your hands up in outrage and calling for a lynching, why not take a moment to actually read the original post?

The suggestion is that guard systems be made to fit in with the roleplay of their respective factions and Disco as a whole. I agree. What this means varies hugely depending on the faction, so for the police/military/bounty hunters it would be acceptable to leave their guard systems as restricted airspace, and even adding a non-guard base of the same faction would not be a tragedy. But really, this proposal wouldn't affect these particular factions so much.

It's the unlawful guard systems that don't make much sense at the moment. As Benjamin pointed out, the Mollys' existence revolves solely around taking Dublin from the Bretonians. Now, the Mollys happened to stumble upon a whole new system, practically an El-Dorado; they establish a bunch of bases there and even colonize a planet. What do they need Dublin for? We've had this discussion in the Molly Republic many times about how Londonderry is killing our RP. And this extends beyond the Mollys -- unless it's the Corsairs or Outcasts, it's unlikely a group of unlawfuls would discover a system all on its own and manage to keep it secret from everybody else, and on top of that, arm it to the teeth with a small army.

To the people who say, "Oh, we paid for it, we can do whatever we want with it," I say you're wrong. You're not buying a piece of furniture for your house, you're adding content to an online game that should be designed to improve the gameplay of everybody, not just yourselves. Battleships cost more than systems, but that doesn't mean that purchasing one allows you to disregard roleplay and blast people "because it cost a lot." Besides, in its current form ownership of guard systems promotes the clan mentality of "this is ours, now piss off" that I thought the Discovery server aims to avoid.

EDIT:

If it was hurting Discovery, I am sure the Admins, Korrd, and Igiss would have slammed a lock down on the sales of guard systems a while ago.

False argument: there can't be any problems because if there were, they would have been fixed already? No, that's the point of proposals like this one.