' Wrote:Actually Cassini was always intended to be a bridge between Yukon and Galileo, there's two non Rogue bases in there, one's DSE and one's Junker. The JH's have been moved, I suspect that ahd to do with trade balance.

Quote:As for making a JH to baffin from Yukon, that would be silly. You'd have to completely rebalance trade in order to make it work.

Quote:As for Oita, just because the IND have been there for not much time, doesn't mean we don't get an input into what goes where in our system. Xoria dictates where the JH's go in order to avoid screwing up trade, fortunately at the moment Oita provides no shortcuts worth taking your proposition would change that.

' Wrote:I was responding to the argument that ownership was the only factor. Hell the release is still in beta so IND presence isn't even established in lore yet. I agree it matters, but its not like the end of the discussion.

As for this proposal in particular, there would need to be a stepping stone between Galileo and Quebec for the hop-count to stay the same as Colorado-New York-Texas. Oita is right there, is the obvious candidate (Alaska, Ellesmere, and Minnesota won't work for different reasons), which is why I proposed it.

On a general point though, Oita should be directly acccessible. For one thing, no guard system should be a terminal point on a trade route, yet the bases in Oita are buy and sell points for many different commodities. It needs to be publicly accessible or have inventory reduced to oxygen and water like all of the other guard stations. Furthermore Oita is the only player faction guard system that requires entry through a lawful guard systems--you have to be friendly to at least one police or navy guard faction in order to use it regularly (as opposed to infrequently)--and it should be harrassable by enemy factions with somewhat direct access (without having to fight through another house guard faction first). Putting a jumphole from Galileo into Oita solves both problems, and also provides a balanced way to connect the northern and southern independent systems.

' Wrote:Also, what's wrong with Oita being inaccessible? IND have permission to pass through Illinois anyway without a problem. It's no difficult task to get a neutral rep with LPI Guard.

Quote:Why can't Oita be a terminal point in a trade route, or any Guard system for tht matter?

' Wrote:It's difficult if you're an unlawful faction that wants to attack the bases in Oita

For the same reason that you don't put mining fields in a guard system. It's hard for hostiles to get there and attack you, so they don't, and sooner or later you end up exploiting the fact that you are left alone. Go out in the same mean world that everybody uses when you need to make money. That is doubly true for Oita that is behind a house guard firewall.