' Wrote:And a place for the invasion force would be too darn tempting.
Say, for some inexplicable reason, reighland wants to invade liberty. So liberty turns their gate off.
Reighland rushes bretonia with everything he's got and quickly pushes the entire army through their jump gate before the bretonian army arrives.
All of a sudden, liberty has just lost. with style.
Hence you only build gates between allies.
That is were the locking system both ends have locks if locks are activated one side the gates wont work if there both unlocked then things can pass through.
it could be implimented comes in like a button you could push or say even trade lane style u could shoot an it locks shoot an it unlocks. but the power would be given to house military vessels and a fail safe were the gates would automatically lock against military vessels e.g. a liberty battleship or fighter for that matter comes in to go through gate bretonias end automatically locks and a message is sent to any online military players with fleet compliment of what is coming through or a message saying military fleet incoming something like that. IT is then the bretonians choice to let them through or not if theres no online player the gates remained locked an ya will just have to take the long way.
and yes your right Role play is the backbone of this lovely server it is what makes this server so great.
this could add diplomatic roleplaying, tourism, something else for the police to rp an baby sit, if gates are locked or ability to use them as a trader is limited with out house authority ya route out power trading.
with the prototype you can role play exploration how you got thrown to god knows were, the tests, the advancement of technology and give all those scientists and researchers a lil piece make history and rp such great achievments an how they went about it.
and the advanced jump gates wouldnt be everywere just a select few place maybe even 1 or 2 you would have a lot of travelling to go to other places and things to run into and if there locked or ya limits up for a set time ya gonna have to take the long way or really role play hard to convince the house authorities or owner of the gate.