BMM/IMG: Change hostile to unfriendly?

[AeternusDoleo]

BMM and IMG both have a significant presence in Bretonia. I understand the reasons behind the animosity between the two factions as competitors, but as far as I'm aware there hasn't been any direct conflict between IMG's player factions and BMM's player factions (indy's included) for a long time. Might it be a good idea to change the repninja to not force them hostile to eachother, but keep it at unfriendly instead?

Positive effects: OORPly: Starting and existing IMG and BMM players will have it a lot easier moving around in Bretonia without any hostile bases and NPC caravans causing the entirety of Bretonia to go hostile to you.
IRPly: Bretonia makes more sense since Bretonian police wouldn't allow these wanton attacks by civilians on civilians. (And IMG has indicated they respect Bretonian laws while inside Bretonia)

I know the faction leaders of IMG and BMM would have to agree to this for it to be requested to the admins, but... thoughts everyone?

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[Elven]

I agree, makes sense.

[cmfalconer]

Added: BMM is technically a state-owned industry. Why, if there was an enemy as directly hostile as IMG is to a state-owned company within the borders of their sovereign nation, would the state allow said hostile company to continue operations in their space?

Cardiff would be a BMM base faster than you could say "What Beryllium?"

And I would like to echo the sentiment about the NPCs turning all of Bretonia hostile. Makes VERY little sense to be flying by Thames and have it go hostile to it's on ships when an IMG convoy floats past New London.

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[Gaz83]

I agree aswell.
It would make more sense.

On my img character it's annoying as hell when thames outpost (or any other bmm base) decides to go all guns blazing on me, causing all of Bretonia open up on me aswell.

[DarthCloakedGuy]

Wait, repninja? This must be new... when I played an IMG in 4.84, the IMG ID worked properly...

Whose stupid idea was this repninja anyway?

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[Lobster]

Its about time

[Valinor]

I agree on this.

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[audiopulse]

Me too, strongly. I hate all those NPC-transports engaging my miners or transports.

[sovereign]

The IMG are not considered enemies of the state of Bretonia; to the contrary, they have been shown to respect Bretonian authority within the Dublin system and elsewhere, even if they also placate the Kusari invaders in Tau-31. Any engagement between BMM and IMG vessels within Bretonian sovereign territory is illegal regardless of who shot first, and will not be tolerated.

~ Admiral Daniel Arthur Haynes, BAF|



It's silly. They have skirmishes in Tau-23, yeah, sure, but so do Daumann and Kruger... neither group is so stupid as to do it in Bretonia, and "shady action away from the eyes of the law" is only as much grounds for repninjas as Daumann buying slaves out of sight is grounds for them to be made hostile to the RM.

As a player, an admiral in the BAF|, and a dev, I fully support the removal of this rephack.

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[Dart]

the BMM faction isnt at war with IMG at the moment, they have an agreement not to mess with eachothers' turf for now...

as a BMM char, having to kill so many IMG ships has made gateway shipping hostile to me :/

i second this post

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