@Markam, if you were actually serious with the battleship proposal, it can't work because of lore issues, say in the case of Rheinland we have a history of losing fleets to environmental hazards so I try to refrain from sending capital ships into say, the Omegas.
I'll admit though... I turned a blind eye over some independents doing it, seeing that my RP measurements were not exactly responded to with an equally fair notion.
Your point about stationary battleships is valid, it's a shame (?) though that they aren't exactly allocated efficiently to have a value as a peace keeping entity, nor do we, factions have the power to position them better.
As for your last point, which I believe also covers Dodike, we have our respective Bounty Boards set up, though your idea may actually work with motivated mercenaries. The thing is, I don't quite feel that the military should be paying these mercenaries exactly because of the following reasoning:
In-RP, corporations make the profit for the House/military, but in reality they don't. There is no tax or anything similar, so the cash of the military is made by the military. Spending the military's real cash to protect their non-real enterprise partners is sorta iffy, especially if we pay ludicrous amounts to mercenaries as we did before, say in the case of Reavers, who were damn efficient but also drained a few hundred millions of Rheinwehr money.
If the corporation pays tax (instead of paying their enemies to leave them alone), we can invest that into protecting them, but now we can barely finance our own needs to stay alive, as a faction.
@Smokey: As I said previously, whenever I'm around, we usually patrol every single choke point of Rheinland, first being the Omegas. Training in Braunschweig, is of course something I do not condemn because if we want to be efficient in countering piracy, we also need to be efficient as fighters. I think it's bold to state that we're only in one system, personally speaking I know I invested much more effort into resolving the Omega crisis than the war with Liberty or training my men, yet people assume that I don't care about it.
Then again, there's also an RP event going on in Braun, hopefully Felicia is stable now though.
@Wuselkobold, I've been trying to focus on that, like taking the Military more frequently into the Omegas (as I said quite a few times already), the Sigmas and the Liberty border worlds (where activity seems to have died again). The thing is, if something happens in the core systems, the RFP is not always online to handle it, yet I can personally state that we try to give them priority in handling internal issues whenever they are. Of course, as a faction leader I have to be responsible for keeping up the interest of my own men as well, note that.
Also, I was going to ask the RFP to go to the Omegas even before I went busy in December. I think I will do so now, but the problematic issue is the lack of proper equipment... hm I think I have an idea.
