Bowex-Gateway Rephack

[Syrus]

Alright, this was discussed among the people in question before, but...

It was decided how we wanted this to be done. And this didn't just mean a simple "rep-hack to almost
hostile", because it wasn't that easy. This rep-hack means, Gateway can't dock on important trade bases,
can't reach important commodities, can't buy Bretonian Civ ships etc...

The problems about this were adressed:
One is, commodities: I consider Super Alloy and Industrial Materials important ressources, especially since
they are base building material, even though that's just a side-note, considering trade routes around and
out of Bretonia. They are both only available on Bowex bases. This was adressed before and a solution was
brought up - which was not implemented. Of course it's not a bad thing to have some stuff be sold "for the
best price" on Bowex bases, but Gateway NEEDS something of their own as a trade route OUT of Bretonia.
Another thing is just as severe as the first: the Bretonian Civilian transports are only sold on Scarborough
Station, which is - oh wonder - a Bowex base. Great. Does that mean Gateway can't use those ships
anymore? This was also adressed before and a solution was suggested, and accepted.

Now, we got the no-docking rep-hack in, that's "great". But we got none of the solutions in, which would
have kept the balance between the factions at least a little bit. Gateway got little to nothing dragging players
to the faction before, now they got even less. One base, no docking on one quarter of the Bretonian bases,
no access to their own house's transports, two highly used ressources can't be bought anymore.

Isn't it nice when stuff is only implemented half-way?

Not that I'll care anymore soon, since I left Gateway) and I'm going to scrap my (useless) Gateway ship (as
much as I liked the RP behind Gateway...it's just bleh to see everything be scrapped. Now even the
Sprague-Refugee idea is gone)...Still it bugs me to see this all go down the drain.

In the end: give Gateway finally something. It's the faction that got least attention from anyone. One (1)
base, be it as central as it is, only selling Consumer Goods for a good (in-house) trade route. And nothing to
offer that can't be done much better with a certain other faction.

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[Echo 7-7]

Trade Bug Reports & Requests - for getting more stuff sold on Kensington. I agree that there should be a few more items available.

Also, can you not use a recruit/Freelancer ID when setting up ships in order to get said Bretonian transports?

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There was a sig here, once.

[Syrus]

Trade Bug Reports & Requests - for getting more stuff sold on Kensington. I agree that there should be a few more items available.

Also, can you not use a recruit/Freelancer ID when setting up ships in order to get said Bretonian transports?

I'm not going to break rules because of things that have been discussed before as a problem of a
change that is now implemented without a fix for the before mentioned problem.

Stork and Titanic have the same problem when bought for IMG. But since there are rumors of a cargo
restriction for IMG ID going around...(Hopefully 4.5k + Barge at least...But heh. Even more hopefully: devs
contact the IMG about it before hand.) Anyway, going offtopic.

Thing is, this was supposed to go in as one thing. Not partial. Now, Gateway is even less attractive to traders
than before. They could just give Kensington to Bowex and poof, faction gone. I doubt too many people would
complain in the end...

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