• Reconnect O7 and O11 by a jumphole in the NW of O11
  
• Reconnect the other systems that lost their connection by the introduction of O9, if there are any more.
  

• For system dark looks and layout, see Curious' draft in this post, further below. I love the dark-dangerous atmosphere and also the gameplay considerations attached.
  
• Resources of all local factions centered in the middle around the sun
  
• Diamonds, Copper, Cobalt, Raw Hydro Carbons, Silver are there (basically all resources that were in the neighbouring systems, to not screw up route length and profit calculations)
  
• Curious' alternative: Unprocessed Uranium, high profit, high risk unique commodity
  
• DHC, BMM, IMG, Kruger, Hessians have minable resources there
  
• No NPC bases
  
• No NPC patrols
  
• No PoBs closer 30k to any field (players would have to kill bases that do not comply, which is easier with the new system)
  
• Curious' alternative: No PoB at all.
  

• Force factions to participate, as they have their resources 1 system away also. They lose nothing if they do not participate.
  
• Fields are undrainable. No one is thus forced to leave his "safe" fields (e.g. in O7) to mine in dangerous Omega 9.
  
• Won't be a buffer system that everybody hates, but where people go voluntarily (see 1.) if they like the setting and challenge.
  

• Roleplay the conquest of a newly discovered, close-to-House-Space system and see how it works out.
  
• Offer a different, less restricted and pre-determined interaction by not separating rivalling groups (like O7) but bringing them together in close quarters
  
• Extremely high risk interaction (Hessians, Wilde, Corsairs are really close compared to O3, O7)
  
• Add some corporate conflict outside of House space where problems are handled Wild West style and not with a lawsuit and FR5s and such. Too much order in the Borderworlds ruined the confrontational, wild part.
  
• Allow for high-risk activity where pvp death does not mean much in terms of being locked out from a main system (it's annoying e.g. to be locked out of O7/O3).
  
• Serve as a platform for Houses to roleplay their territorial quest or wage proxy wars via their corporations without automatically violating "set-ion-stone roleplay" (e.g. by base placement, lane IFF, etc...).
  
• Could be the Omega system that Hessians and Sairs really clash (Omega 5 did not really work, did it?). With players there, even accidental skirmishes would happen and larger interaction could spawn from that.
  
• Add a dynamic moment into a rather static Discovery where player driven change doesn't ruin anything.
  

(02-07-2014, 08:16 AM)Curios Wrote: I'd remove the run off the plane and replace it with the planet surrounded with the dark cloud w\o radiation but with big scanner nerf. All mineable fields are withing that cloud around the planet.

Concept is nice. I'd revert all the region to the old layout, omega 9 can be just sitting in between O3 and O7 as an alternative route with holes being on NE in O3 and NW in O7. Only two holes are leading into the system this way. Holes must be leading into the scanner prohibiting clouds (o9 can be either containing some few clouds or be a huge cloud covering the whole system).

Here is my concept for O9 layout:

About the political rumble - you're not correct. O9 is lying outside of House space and thus there is no laws application of any house. This mean all the participants are there on their own w\o house military or police having this place inside their ZOI (mean they can't engage hostiles there - only in self defense).

About POBs - I'd prohibit ANY POBs inside this system or closer then 15k to it's holes in O3 and O7. Admin or player forced - doesn't matter. I don't care - I'll ally with anyone on this server with any faction if it'll be necessary to remove some idiot's POB.

EDIT: Maybe one more hole - to Omega 5. Two holes are a bit too easy to control. Also the mineable commodity inside this system must be really profitable - more profitable then the fields in O3 and O7 for all the parties involved. Maybe some new resource that will have four sell points? One on the New London, one on the New Berlin and two on Trafalgar and that other Junker base in New Berlin?

EDIT_2: Possible concept commodity - Unprocessed Uranium. That commodity is one for all parties with 2-3 fields and with 4 different sell points as mentioned above. BMM\Kruger\DHC\Hessians\IMG can mine or pirate each others for mined ores. Corsairs, Junkers and independent Pirates are only able to pirate (or buy in case of Junkers). Freelancers or any other people can only buy Ores. Miner IDed players can only mine or buy ores.

Lawful side can sell at their respectful capital planets and unlawfuls can sell to Junker bases. (Maybe add one more sell point for Corsairs somewhere in Gamma. Skyros shipyard for example).

(02-06-2014, 06:35 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: If I may make some input, JM kind of pulled out because IMG just tries to squish us each time we try to do something in not only Omega-9, but the other Omegas...

(02-06-2014, 04:51 PM)Pavel Wrote: Omega-9 as another useless system should be removed [...] somehow except IMG no one else is really interested in that system.

(02-06-2014, 07:18 PM)larzac Wrote: Maybe a new mineable ore like iridium?

(02-06-2014, 11:10 PM)EisenSeele Wrote: Interesting concept, but politics makes it so that any actual hostile actions between mining corps would extend to legal action in more civilized space - and all mining factions involved have something to lose in house space. [...]

(02-07-2014, 12:10 AM)djordje_petrovic Wrote: As i maintain freeport there i wouldnt like to move it further. However this concept is good, will make plenty of rp opportunities. And really many factions asked for docking rights on freeport. I support this kind of RP , and reconection of o11 that anyone who doents wanna participate can skip system.

All this concept look like some RP connencticat basin. I am in and ill provide support/headache to all interested and involved