Well... there -is- another party in Sirius now that does lane tech. And is quite hostile to Liberty to boot... But what will happen? I have no idea, since I have no clue as to how the factions involved will act. From my standpoint as dev and story lead, I'm only looking to assign reasonable consequences to various actions.
If Ageira/DSE ceases lane maintenance the network will slowly start to decay. It'll take a while before stuff starts fritzing out, especially gates. Rheinland has some time there, although it will end up making travel inconvenient in the region within a few weeks. If they contract another party (I actually worked out a hypothetical on this scenario) it'll threaten the Liberty monopoly on lane tech, which is one of it's major exports. With one of it's economic backbones threatened, Liberty would have little choice other then to intervene militarily with all it's might - Rheinland is already struggling. But at the same time, Gallia is looming on the western horizon, so Liberty is in a timecrunch before finding itself on a war on two fronts. Rheinland isn't the dimmest bulb either, they'd know this and try to delay Liberty...
Something along these lines is a possible scenario for the 4.87 storyline development for the region.
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Says you, if they can be made compatible, and RM want to go Solar, well that would be fun times ahead. Up to the devs really if that's something they'd be willing to modify.
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Though I don't think Solar could maintain the trade lane systems of a House in the opposite corner of Sirius with the same efficiency as Ageira could do. I mean, if Solar took the job, they would have to travel through Taus, Kusari and Sigmas, so I think that them being able to maintain the lanes of bordering systems such as Omega 7 (or even Dresden and München) would be way too idyllic, and maybe in said systems, the lanes could suffer the aforementioned decay.
Except Ageira doesn't maintain lanes. DSE does. So even then Ageira's not gonna be that efficient. Not saying they can't. Just that DSE are he specialist in that field, nobody does it better than DSE
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Just consider that the Corporations are shafting themselves in this too.
We're talking about 25% of a multi-trillion credit company's market suddenly being wiped out.
People acting like complete idiots will find that their actions will have no effect.
As Del said, doing things just to cause change is not going to work.
IC doing this would actually damage their company. The sheer instability involved would also discourage investers.
This could basically be another great depression, across Sirius.
well the weird thing is that IC transports caused this problem. Transportation isnt the main industry IC is involved in. Insurance and financing is what they do and they've shafted this with their transport activities.
Meanwhile Rheinland is putting the stability of its infrastructure and consumer markets at risk. If this goes south Rheinland would probably end up with an insurrection of a very very very unhappy population
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There's no easy way to game-play an investment banker / insurance agent, especially when the projects they support are house-level projects such as tradelane construction.
Saying they aren't a shipping corp basically means they are a RP corp and have no function in the gameplay environment.
On the mentions of Solar doing lane work in Rheinland, I'm not in Solar or part of the Solar leadership, but as a fellow Gallic HC member, I don't think there would be much support amongst the factions for Solar to get involved. Not only is there the logistical problem of getting to Rheinland to do all this, but there are also three positive things happening right now that we don't want to interfere with;
First, instability in the Rheinland market creates instability in the rest of Sirius, roleplay-wise. Gallia is a closed economy just starting to open up to Kusarians. Our economy is shielded from any sort of shockwave coming from Rheinland, as our economy isn't dependent on outside supplies like the Sirian houses are. As such, it'd cause chaos amongst our enemies while we sit back and enjoy our stable market. Furthermore, instability in Sirius could lead to Kusari purchasing more goods from us instead of the other houses, and by doing so, putting more money and resources in our own economy at the expense of the others.
Second, this also hurts Interspace, and through interspace, the other Liberty companies. Hurting Liberty is good. If Solar goes and does all the maintenance, Interspace might back down, restoring confidence in Rheinland and reopening dealings between them and IC, since IC will be much cheaper than Solar, considering circumstances and logistics.
Third, propaganda. This kind of event only reinforces the crown's claim to its citizens that Sirius is filled with nothing but infighting, greedy, and self-serving people, and that Gallia is tasked by God/Morals/Whatever to cleanse Sirius of these people and put them under the benevolent leadership of His Majesty the King. Gallia wants as many of these events to happen as humanly possible.
' Wrote:There's no easy way to game-play an investment banker / insurance agent, especially when the projects they support are house-level projects such as tradelane construction.
Saying they aren't a shipping corp basically means they are a RP corp and have no function in the gameplay environment.
I had an issue with this and Sirius Robotics in the past.
Sirius Robotics makes robots, it didn't ship them. Nor was there a great route that was really appropriate for the faction.
So the faction never had much of an ingame presence, maybe a couple of transports that did some runs here and there.
Overall though, ingame presence is key for a faction such as IC to be fun to play.
They need transports ingame, or no one will play them.
Enjoy what is going to happen. If IC says "Sorru, can we buddies again?" and pays a little compensation, no doubt things will return to normal, mostly.
If they don't, well, you know.
' Wrote:On the mentions of Solar doing lane work in Rheinland, I'm not in Solar or part of the Solar leadership, but as a fellow Gallic HC member, I don't think there would be much support amongst the factions for Solar to get involved. Not only is there the logistical problem of getting to Rheinland to do all this, but there are also three positive things happening right now that we don't want to interfere with;
First, instability in the Rheinland market creates instability in the rest of Sirius, roleplay-wise. Gallia is a closed economy just starting to open up to Kusarians. Our economy is shielded from any sort of shockwave coming from Rheinland, as our economy isn't dependent on outside supplies like the Sirian houses are. As such, it'd cause chaos amongst our enemies while we sit back and enjoy our stable market. Furthermore, instability in Sirius could lead to Kusari purchasing more goods from us instead of the other houses, and by doing so, putting more money and resources in our own economy at the expense of the others.
Second, this also hurts Interspace, and through interspace, the other Liberty companies. Hurting Liberty is good. If Solar goes and does all the maintenance, Interspace might back down, restoring confidence in Rheinland and reopening dealings between them and IC, since IC will be much cheaper than Solar, considering circumstances and logistics.
Third, propaganda. This kind of event only reinforces the crown's claim to its citizens that Sirius is filled with nothing but infighting, greedy, and self-serving people, and that Gallia is tasked by God/Morals/Whatever to cleanse Sirius of these people and put them under the benevolent leadership of His Majesty the King. Gallia wants as many of these events to happen as humanly possible.
I would argue that the reasons Aet already mentioned far, far outweigh those 3 points.
Rheinland can help fight Liberty, can split Libertonian forces (Pretty key for the GRN offensive), hurt Bretonia with less trade etc.
Propaganda will mean nothing if the GRN can't win the war, which they ought to know would be hard to do if they just charged at Liberty, whilst having Bretonia and then Rheinland to also deal with.
No high command is that stupid, not after they've had decades of real war experience.