Should Traders in RP, use Jump Holes?

[Benjamin]

I voted depends on faction that said trader is affiliated to.

House Corporations: I would say in RP they shouldn't. Due to their knowledge of them and what DSE and Algeria tells them about Jump Holes and their stability. As well they wouldnt want to risk their cargo and their lives.

DSE has a base in a system only accessible by jumphole...

At least with disco changes, we have been taught that jumpholes are fine. Corps know that zoners and such have used them since forever and haven't died, so it's unlikely they wouldn't want to use them to maximise their profits. Corporations like Cryer, who have a lot of dealings with Zoners (on Freeport 9 for example) and do things like create and distribute Synth Pot, basically have to use jumpholes to operate. In vanilla lore, it's the corporations who do the houses' exploration. Sure the Zoners may or may not get their first, but the house corps definitely arrive before the jumpgates do. I mean how do they build them otherwise right? There are rumours on Ronneburg where Hessians are worried that Daumann are going to start up operations in Omega 5. And so on and so on.
I mean sure the CEO of Cryer might not jump through to Omicron Beta, but would he order some little Denver guttersnipe on minimum wage to do it? Sure. Corps aren't good, quiet little haulers, they are huge, ridiculously powerful, transnational megacompanies with varying, but largely low, levels of ethics and the desire to make money however they can. They're not going to shy away from something because they're 'supposed' to if there's no evidence to back it up.


And purely from a gameplay perspective, they really have to. Corporations have very few benefits over independent traders and zoners and junkers as it is, restricting them to jumpgates would basically kill half the factions in the game.

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