You know you could just come to me on Skype, the answer would be same. But here: No, 5th has no ooRP or inRP reasons not to siege the base, however we haven't gotten around to declaring a siege either. If you, [LN] or whoever else was to declare one, and put us as one of the attacking parties, we would jump in on the fun as possible.
Edit: Actually now that Exo did mention it, I asked multiple times ingame during multiple Bering raids whether we are actually able to siege, and from the answers I understood that we could.
Bering is classed as outer regional space. House militaries with zone of influence in outer regional space can siege or enforce roleplay consequences on player bases in these systems, but only if the base is hostile to them.
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- House Military, Police, and Intelligence factions may not enforce roleplay consequences upon non-hostile POBs, breaking House Laws or not, within Outer Regional Space.
The POB was specifically made non-hostile so that the military cannot use this line. It is just exploiting the lines.
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I feel like a siege wouldn't be gameplay fun for anybody involved.
If LN succeed in the Siege, it means less Harmony supply ships to hunt, less Harmony online to defend the base, less UN to back them up, etc. How does that benefit LN? Equally it takes out a supply point for UN, who love having reasons to smuggle (there arn't a huge number, although the situation is getting better).
It's currently an activity source that doesn't block trade or interfere with any other faction. Besides, peaceful house border worlds are dead house borderworlds. You have an emergent source of logging here. Besieging it down might feel good for a few days, but then you'll have less to log for afterwards.
Just my 2 cents. LN should incentivise unlawful basebuilding projects as they create raidspots. I am biased, of course, but I've played lawful before and it's really fun when there's set places where you know you can get activity. Like KNF in Chukgoku back in the day, or outside Ainu depot.
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I'll be blunt here, since 5th was fairly blunt in the field.
I'd like to know why my fairly reasonable PM was seemingly ignored by what I could tell up-front was the faction's 1ic. Balance being a issue I try to keep under control (due to many outside sources telling me to), I see no reason why a 'question as to the necessity of a heavy warship joining the fray being needed' had to be ignored when there were 0 outside factors delaying the answer. Sure, it may not have mattered in the end for some people, but having a legit, sincere question ignored by the 1ic of an official faction is a little telling of what to expect from 5th.
As for context, this is the subject in question:
[29.07.2018 23:02:23] H|-SNS-Gambier.Bay: // is that thing really necessary?
[29.07.2018 23:02:55] H|-SNS-Gambier.Bay: // an LSC would've done just fine in that thing's place
Sep forces: 2 snubs - 1 Cau8 PG Pelican - 1 Solaris GB - 1 Prim GB
Our forces: 4 fighters - 1 bomber who DC'd shortly after the fight started
They were in need of reinforcement so I logged the closest ship I had and that was my LABC. I don't think that there would have been a difference between an LSC and an LABC at this point. I ignored the PMs because I was concentrating on hitting something. (On a side note, it didn't work since I missed 90% of the shots.)