You know what makes me sad?

[Agran Harper]

Yes I know its the wrong thread for my words. *apologizes*

What is known officially about Zone-21: That it exists and that it is a heavily restricted area. Nobody officially knows there is a jumpgate inside the minefield (don't come to me with "but I can spot the gate with my bare eye!").
What is known in Discovery about Alaska? I have not the foggiest, because digging up stuff that has changed the storyline in Discovery is a laborous task indeed. So the only things I can say without messing with the game mechanics too much;

1. Add a cloud to the minefield so the gate cannot be spotted anymore.
   
2. Remove the existing tunnel in the minefield.
   
3. Create a set of "labyrinth" entrance and ankled tunnels just like the mine-field race in Connectictut, except that the buoys don't show up as objects at all on the scanner. Just being there.
   
4. Developers / admins give the location of this entrance only to leading players of the LSF, the Navy Guard and the regular LN. These people do then instruct the other members worth mentioning.
   
5. A new Guard / LSF / LN should perhaps not receive the coordinates of the new entrance very early. I can figure it takes a while and a certain trust and reputation to be allowed to move there.
   
6. Having fighter/Bomber Patrols of the Navy Guard running circles around the cloud and inside the minefield to free fire on any unwanted visitors.
   
7. Additional Cruise disrupting weapon platforms of different kinds and types to take on small and large vessels.
   

Why come up with all these complicated solutions? Just lock the Z21-Alaska Gate down to anyone without the proper ID mounted. You can easily do that with FLHook. Proper IDs would be the Nomad ones, LSF, LSF Guard and Navy Guard (not sure about the normal Navy ID - any input on that would be welcome).

My memory is clouded, but I do believe you can restrict a jumpgate by standing to the faction the gate belongs to.

Of course, now everybody fires and says "but how would we set up an Order/whatnot character".
Question 1: how many order Characters are being created? If there are not much, perhaps a formal request per PM in the forums and a manual change of reps by an admin if possible?
Question 2: What about introducing other ways to get Order rep up beside Alaska-abusing?
Question 3: FLhook could do the trick, as many said, but I have the vague feeling that the more needs to be done with FLHook, the higher the latency could become because of all the different server to client to server verifications going on?

*drops his Cents*

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To hunt the prey is life,
to lose the prey is death,
to hunt the loss is insane...