I don't mind the idea of a whitelist, in fact I used to have one since you can never tell on the first encounter if the hired gun is looking for a job or is currently employed (with you potentially being the target, yikes). I need to make another one as I have come across 2 Freelancer's already who asked to buy the Taiidan HF and work near our area of space. I also remember two other Freelancers who'd come to the Sigmas and work for us from time to time Sierra.Rivetti and Alexis.Almira.
The use of hired guns and the amount of hired guns may end up being decided on a case by case scenario. A ratio as suggested may seem fine at first but there is an inherent problem to that. The more players one side has - the more hired guns available. It looks like both primary sides of these events are in agreement that these are full fledged RP based events and not the standard PvP contests so I'll leave it to each side to determine through their RP whether they'll hire help, how much and who. As mentioned before I am far less concerned of fairness of numbers, ships, equip etc... and much more concerned with RP merit of what is brought. GMG is indeed more tolerant of gaijin than our Kusari neighbours but we are still less trustfull than say Liberty. As mentioned above hired guns have worked for us and gained our trust. Such chars have always been a welcome sight. Hogosha may have a few themselves. So I'll make it my opinion that the possibilities of hired guns are there but each individual participating is up to the discretion of the leading factions on both sides.
Now about the time and date. I was looking at the timeslots for recurring events and Sat. 15:00 GMT is unclaimed, any objections?