Kusari Legal Codex Feedback

[song]

I get what you are saying Shigeo. Your idea would lead to more RP and PVP interaction between Hogosha and Junkers. I think that is a good thing. But if I cannot do buisness in Kusari there is no point in going there.

Well yes--a "ban" would make most Junkers not go there. Letting the Hogosha "police" though leaves cracks in the wall for Junkers to sneak in and out.

So if a Junker wasn't about and KNF or KSP pulled you over, they would simply check you cargo and if it was legit wave you own with a few rude comments. IF a Hogosha caught you, then prepare to be extorted.

Right now there are very few Hogosha. I'm almost the only active one on a regular basis right now (there are a couple of more). Hopefully by adding rp more and a little background, more will join in.

The Hogosha have been an overlooked faction recently and it hurts players who want to be Hogosha and junkers who want to play the Kusari side.

I've just been trying to help fill them out a little.

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Codex updated:
-Changed export restrictions
-Better explained capital ship restrictions

I plan to fully read and reply to comments tomorrow evening.

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Codex Updated, added informations on licenses.

furthermore, - on second thought, - it may be fine to enforce any embargo - but should it not rather be a civilian one? - so shouldn t samura / kishiro enforce it - and not the military in that case?

Products in the list are used in large quantites on warships/weapons, as the purpose of the embargo is to prevent Kusari pruduced 'military' (can be used in warships/weapons) products to reach Bretonian borders and the Battleship Nagumo and Nagaski are the two main blockades, it make me think it fall in military duty.
Apparently 'The Queen' is of the same opinion, considering Bretonia policy on the same list is slightly more restrictive, unless I'm basing on old documents.

when engine components, niobium, optronics are "banned" from casual trading, there is not much left. - its like shooting your own feet. - not everything that you can justify in RP will have a good effect on the RP enviroment.

Currently Niobium and Optronics are not in the list.

here is an example:

i have been providing FP 11 with engine components, making the nice route from honshu to delta via one of the last "legit" routes we have. - now i have been confronted by the KNF and rightfully been told that its not allowed. i was told that i can obtain a license and that it won t be hard for a zoner vessel. - so far so good.

but the RP of my zoner would rather say ( since he fled the regulatory machinery of the inner sphere ) not to get caught in the bureaucracy again. - he took the only consequence a zoner has - and placed an embargo on kusari himself. - meaning, no more trades of cobalt from FP11 to honshu - cause i am not able to take anything back.

i adjusted my route to rheinland instead - picking up engine components at new berlin and taking the omega route to delta. - in RP, honshu just lost a major provider of cobalt and a source of money that would take their engine components. i m a bit doubtful if thats really what kusari wants.

in terms of gameplay - its just less players you get and more NPCs. think about overregulating stuff. - and/or leave it to the cooperations like kishiro or samura. - a trader may rather deal with restrictions made by other civilian cooperations than a house military, even if the interconnections between the vertically involved kusari cooperations and the goverment are interdependent.
if optronics and engine components are illegal without a license, - it ll cut off honshus exports as this planet has nothing worth selling anymore. adding niobium ( even if its meant to cut the ooRP traders that use the chogoku route ) to be illegal may - if enforced end up with no traders at all anymore. - the whole kusari space may end up empty. no traders, no pirates, no lawfuls.

This restriction is now changed to apply only for export toward the Taus and apparently this 'example route' does not involve Kyushu or Tau-31 blockade, there shouldn't be problems.

So if a Junker wasn't about and KNF or KSP pulled you over, they would simply check you cargo and if it was legit wave you own with a few rude comments. IF a Hogosha caught you, then prepare to be extorted.

I believe this can simply be applied by players by RPing Junkers/Hogosha ingame.
Should this type of roleplay be encouraged somehow? Is really needed to add something to the codex about it? If yes, more licenses?
Me: 1 Yes (an Hogosha PFaction perhaps? events? RP on the forum?) - 2 No - 3 No.

[sempai17]

$50 million for a Licence to transport exports is outrageous! I know it is a time of war, but there should still be some rationality. $50 million is too steep for independent traders who can barely afford an escort, whilst, corporations can pull funds together in weeks even days. Please be reasonable, $25 million would be ideal, but i could live with $30, even $35 million.

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Codex updated, "export to Tau" licenses fares lowered. Some details added.

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Codex updated, "export to Tau" licenses fares lowered again.
Minor improvements.

It is likely the criminals list will be cleared after 4.85, except for well known Sirius terrorists and new entries.

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Codex updated, now it's crystal clear...

[*]NO Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship capital class vessel may enter Kusari Core Space without prior permission from [KNF]High Command.
Kyushu, New Tokyo, Honshu, Shikoku.
NO Bounty Hunter Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship capital class vessel may enter Kusari Space beyond Deshima station in Shikoku.
NO "Private police forcers" are recognized, condoned, nor desired in Kusari.

[crimecities]

On my indie KNF, I halt every signal foreigner ('gaijian') I come across, to keep me occupied. Indie trader, zoner with eagle, doesn't matter. They get stopped and asked where they are headed before I let them go.

I have noticed a number of those indie traders carry 'Gate/Lane parts'. I halt them, and they tell me they are headed to the 'Tau-31 Gate Construction Site'. I ask who owns the base. The response? "BMM".

This makes me wonder if gate/lane parts should be added to the embargo. Those could easily be considered military goods - they allow the BAF to move around much more quickly.

Unfortunately, Gate/Lane Parts are not on the list of embargoed goods. I would love nothing more then to make the trader drop the cargo, and fine them. (They can still deliver their goods by heading through Britonia or the barrier rim). Could gate/lane parts be added to the list?

[Zelot]

On my indie KNF, I halt every signal foreigner ('gaijian') I come across, to keep me occupied. Indie trader, zoner with eagle, doesn't matter. They get stopped and asked where they are headed before I let them go.

I have noticed a number of those indie traders carry 'Gate/Lane parts'. I halt them, and they tell me they are headed to the 'Tau-31 Gate Construction Site'. I ask who owns the base. The response? "BMM".

This makes me wonder if gate/lane parts should be added to the embargo. Those could easily be considered military goods - they allow the BAF to move around much more quickly.

Unfortunately, Gate/Lane Parts are not on the list of embargoed goods. I would love nothing more then to make the trader drop the cargo, and fine them. (They can still deliver their goods by heading through Britonia or the barrier rim). Could gate/lane parts be added to the list?

The problem with this is that, in rp, there are other projects in Kusari that would need the Gate parts, and Lane parts are used for keeping the tradelane system up and running.

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[farmerman]

The problem with this is that, in rp, there are other projects in Kusari that would need the Gate parts, and Lane parts are used for keeping the tradelane system up and running.

Can it be limited to a certain area or allow domestic companies to take care of that only, like with plutonium? If they're headed the wrong way, they could drop them off on Kyushu and such?

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