What would attract you to a corporate faction?

[Jinx]

if the house cooperations "run the houses" how comes that the military runs them - and limits the trade between houses. - the only factions that suffer from embargos and blockades are cooperations. - you can come up with any explanation there - but the point is.... if indeed megacooperations ( like in the movie "blade runner" ) ran the houses.

wouldn t those cooperations try to maximize their profits? - and like most people know - a war is anything but profitable - especially when there is no real prospect to actually gain anything from it ( like valuable space / land / resouces ).



to the OP question:

what would attract you to a corporate faction?

- sadly ... nothing. an innerhouse faction offers nothing an edgeworld trading faction cannot offer. - on the contrary... it offers less.
- more different pirates ( different pirate factions = you need to build up different, sometimes contradicting reputations to get along with them - and you run into more occasions where you are pirated )
- larger systems ( house systems are usually crossed in less time via lanes... IF the lanes are undisrupted - if they are, it may easily take longer than even large edgeworld systems )
- military / police rules that totally upset some traderoutes, various licensing systems that are not too easy to keep in mind - and even if you have a license, you depend on the police / military player to know you have.


in a whole - house transports are generally better than edgeworld transports. - the house trains have a ton of armour - and there is usually a station near that they can dock to before they are destroyed ( if they re not facing a multitude of gunboats or barghest bombers )

edgeworld transports are either weak or smaller than core transports. things look a bit grim when players start to mix ( which i haven t seen happen to much though )

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