Rules update 5.7 6.6 6.7

[jammi]

1) Official tagged factions are going to cop this the worst - their convoys are most noticable and open to chat list stalking.

2) Cruisers and battleships can instakill most transports. Cruisers also have disruptors and thrust at the same speed. Transports cannot physically escape them, outfight them or outlast them.

3) Removing the 4 hour death excemption makes scouts useless, because they won't be able to kill capital ships and once a bottleneck is camped, there is no getting through. By bottleneck, I only mean the vast majority of all the non-capital House systems which are absolutely essential to get anywhere.

4) Transports are not balanced to accommodate being attacked by capital ships. Gunboats were the worst things they were intended to meet.

If this had been released with a dev patch to make adjustments to transport DPS for type 2 turrets, I could understand this. As it happens, it's just the Admins having a laugh and unintentionally shafting the bedrock of all the server's activity.

You can expect to see a massive drop-off in official trade activity. I somewhat strongly suspect the smaller ones may keel over altogether. This does not make the game fun, gentlemen. Quite the opposite. It makes it more of a chore than it already is.

This rule change allows the lowest common denominators to basically wreck any semblance of fun for trade groups. That is what rules are for: to protect players from those players. Bear in mind, one pirate cruiser can lock down an entire system. A large convoy won't be able to do anything about it. They will have to call in military reinforcements - probably around three bombers. Why should one player force the hand of another nine?

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