' Wrote:What's the cause of this never-ending war?
I'm quite new here, so i do not know all the lore, every week i learn something, also the original question has been already answered i think, but if you permit me i'll put my 2 cents about the future relation Corisar - Outcast:
' Wrote:The Corsair - Outcast war needs to be put to an end. Regardless of whatever else.
There's really no point to it...
' Wrote:Basically everything is better than meeting in space and knowing well...we have a war...but nobody has a REAL reason to fight it any longer.
' Wrote:It was never supposed to be a full-scale war, just occasional fights in Sigmas when they meet each other.
' Wrote:As for the OC/Corsair war, yeah it's largely a turf war, and it's largely over sigma pirating grounds (which never actually get used, annoyingly), and keeping clear smuggling routes to each of the four hour houses. Most of those smuggling routes should run through the Sigmas.
As for the OC/Corsair war stopping? LOLNO. It just needs to be fought in the proper place, Omicron Eta was a mistake, but it's down to the players to do something about it. Start smuggling through the sigmas more, both sides... Start pirating in the sigmas more. Get the GMG out to play, cause some chaos, have some fun. Organise stuff, have events.
The turf war in the Sigmas is really not the same as "raid each other's home system once a day".
After reading this comments i think that we need imagination (new ways to interact against an enemy - Black market competidor - "ugly cousins from the other side"):
What about switch from a open great scale war to brawls/ecenomic enemies (artifacts vs Cardamine)/Thugs to the "cousin"...
I'm thinking of establish some kind of game mechanics to allow players to have more RP possibilities, so what about:
Erase blanket boutnries about each other.
Eneable more subtle bountyes:
Corsairs puts a recompense for every cargo pirated ship with cardamine at Sigmas (If the ship is an outcast get a bonus)
Outcast can do the same with artifacts
As you can see this will allow just a piracy action or, if the convoy refuses, a brawl
Eneable also not bounties but jobs:
What about outcast tries to get cardamine to southern freeports of omegas? So pay a recompense to smugle cardamine at Freeport 5?
On the other hand Corsairs could pay to delivery Consumer goods or onther stuff to, for instance, supply Etna base? Or maybe start mining artifacts there and try to reach Sigmas Via Outcast territory?
And of course if the corsairs - Outcast meet at the space a brawl can take place but keeping in mind that is a territory brawl so maybe when one party flies the other, instead of pursue, can rest there "soft swearing" the oponent?
Let's share our imagination senores! (maybe in another thread due the original question was anoter Dodike?)