Why we don't need powerful NPCs

[kidd_meier]

My 2 cents:

1. Each and every Guard system should be defended by the best the faction has access to, and in serious numbers.

2. Each capitsl planet should have the same. No more Outcast BSs 'anging aroun' Manhattan and such.
Same goes for main unlawful bases for factions without capital planets /hmm... most of those are in guard systems anyway/.
10k spam radius for them, maybe more.

3. Every major shipyard should have close to the same defences. You guard the place where you build your fighting ships, yeah? Same for the major naval bases.
5k radius for those.

4. Every inhabited planet and minor naval base should have some respectable defences, except special cases, according to game lore. Same goes for unlawful bases, according to their lore status.
5k here too.

5. Faction bases should have their defences according to the base's importance and the equipment available to the faction.

6. NPC Patrols /both lawful and unlawful/ should be restricted to the cases above, plus trade lanes, and JGs/JHs. Any other patrol straying more than 10k from base/jump point is pointles.

7. Non-fighting NPCs should be limited to certain locations. Please no more NPC blocked gates, eh?

8. Everything else can go, as far as I am concerned.

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