Idea: Base supplying, simplified

[Corile]

As far as POB supply is concerned, I recalled now the way clanbases and clanmissions on HHC were conducted and in my honest opinion it was a lot better than what it is here.

First of all, to start a clanmission, the transport had to be six systems away from their base, had to have 250 or more cargo (mind you, the biggest transport on HHC was Train which had 500 cargo and nothing else) and had to be loaded with one of the four base supply commodities (fuel, oxygen, water, food rations, bases consumed 40 every server restart). The clanmission was started with a hook command and from there the entire server got the message that this clan started their mission blahblahblah, and this naturally made other people log and try to intercept the supply convoy.

That automatically solves a few problems. First of all, when supplying a base it would actually have to be a proper convoy, escorted, scouted and such, because pirates can and will try to intercept it. Secondly, the base placement was absolutely key here, because the clan needed to have a relatively safe route that gives as many alternate paths to the destination while being the shortest (mind you, HHC is a pvp server so there were people who had a fighter in every single system of the game).

Just throwing it out there.

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