Faction jurisdiction

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I agree with Caylith, DBoy, and McNeo.

They said basically msot of what I want to say.

In the terms of governing certain parts of systems, I'd say that kind of sounds like a good idea.

For example; Freeport 4, the IMG Freeport, would be BSG-owned. The area around it would be there area. However, Mactan, being a LH base, would be controlled by the HF. This would include the base, and probably a good 20km around it, including the jump holes to Leeds, New London, and Vespucci. All three of these JHs have a rather large patrol of LH guarding them, and no lawfuls stopping them.

Another example is Tau-31. Holman and the planet are both IMG-controlled I think, so BSG would control a bit of the area around them. While KNF would have rights to the northern section of the system. SF wouldn't really have any rights except the Newcastle JH and the Dundee JH. The Leeds JG is constantly being fought over by the KNF/BAF NPCs and has no definite owner. Of course, these specifics would really be discussed by the factions that have a stake in the area (KNF, SF, and BSG), these two paragraphs are just examples of how it could be zoned.

I think this could give us a whole new division of faction diplomacy and leadership, and could possibly even result in factions fighting for zones of a system, rather than whole systems together. (Hessiens going for control over southern Omega-5 would be wonderful to watch:P)

Planet in Tau31 is Planetform, but I know what your saying Dab, following Npc actions and there patrols seems like a good idea, but as someone else above me said (think Korrd) using ZoI might be a real problem, with the amount of different zones there might be to remember, or simply complicate an issue that should really be as simple as possible.

Using SoI I guess is much better, and for "policing" actions atleast would work good for house factions, like the SF for example can police leeds, but not Tau31 even if there is a Planetform planet in the system and a battleship orbiting it. That system is simply contested, and no one can effectively police it, that doesn't mean RP fights can't still happen in the system, like maybe a pirate running from leeds into tau 31, might still be chased in tau 31 by the SF, because he committed a crime in the SF SoI. But in this example, the SF would be limited to where they could chase him depending on where he runs, if he gets to kurasi space for example, they have to pretty much break off, infact might not even be allowed to go into tau 29, but still, you get the basic picture.

As for factions like the zoners, this is a real problem, my theory being that we should keep things as simple as possible, the idea of mixing SoI and ZoI is not favourable. That said, system like Theta where the zoners have more than one base, might be considered under their control, now I haven't thought this through yet, would each of those kinds of factions get enough of a SoI with this system? Namely to give them SoI in system where their bases out number any other factions? maybe someone with better knowledge of the base layout on discovery can comment?

This also raises the question "should SoI systems all be connected?" as in can a faction have one system in their SoI that is not connected to any other systems in their SoI?

I'm still thinking, I'll post more tomorrow

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