Allow raids into Main Systems to wake up lazy defenders

[Jack_Henderson]

Hiho! I think it's time to touch a sensitive topic, but I strongly feel it should be discussed.

The situation over the last days has been the same (different houses, different sides that I was on):

A raid party assembles.
They meet no resistance or hardly any.
They stop where the admin word of power told them to stop (at a neighbouring system of the capital system).
They sit there and wait.
While the defenders just don't do anything.
After a while and some meaningles small gank-skirmishes against unorganised defenders who are tired of waiting and stalling and flying home bored... everybody flies home.

=> Everybody is pissed off.
=> Attackers for: bloody cowards, hide behind Admin skirt, can't even put up a fight.
=> Defenders: bloody gankers, oorp attackers, only idiots that bring caps here in such masses.

The last 3 days I often heard :

"Starving them out", I heard in the context.
"Not worth fighting", I heard a lot.
"Inpenetrable gate will keep them in Texas", I heard today.
"If you fight them, you only give them what they want", I was told a few moments ago.

Guys, seriously: This game is a space shooter.
=> Shoot - things - in - space!

I would ask Admins to lift the "Cannot raid capital systems" rule because it seems it needs that slap of seeing the raider in your home system for people to actually make an effort, log and defend what they should feel very dear about.

No one seems to care for attackers in the neighbouring system of your capital system any more.

If that is not reason enough to log, perhaps "Enemy in front of Manhattan, Berlin, London" would be a better motivator to make people actually put up an effort to defend, and thus create what this game was made for? (for those that forgot: epic space fights!)

Drop the ZoI restriction for raids that is utterly destructive for gameplay.

What is so difficult and bad if you just go in, fight, die and see it as part of the game? Any raid will sooner or later die in a capital system simply to the numbers. And nothing is lost or won anyway.

I really don't understand it. 3 days in a row, no real engagement with noteworthy resistance against a raid party that for sure took a lot of time to assemble, organise, etc. In the end, all walk away with a grudge.

I find the status disappointing, therefore... this post.

Have at it.

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