The great Guard system cull

["Victory"]

O-100 was De-Guarded? Where Order must to "live"?

[Echo 7-7]

For Rheinland Military and MND stuff, would it be alright if you added it to the Westerwald in Frankfurt? That is Alaska of Rheinland and it makes sense to have all the secret stuff secure and tucked away from prying eyes there.

I'm sure we can squeeze something in there. In general with regards to Rheinland stuff, I've sent off my evil underlings to take care of it while I work on stuff around Kusari and Liberty, so I'm waiting to see what inventive solutions they've created.

Cool! Baffin is not gonna be de-guarded!

Baffin is not a Guard system.

In general it's pretty exciting that O91 is getting a facelift.
I, and I guess most TBH vets, do hope though that the names of the bases and planets get preserved, especially Battleship Prox.
It holds a dear spot in our RP.

I have no particular reason to go changing base names where it's not absolutely necessary.

I've been looling through the posts here, and I'm not seeing much mention of whats happening to planet Soledad in Omivron 81... Information on this would be beneficial, if any exists. i've a future project in mind but I'd like to know if the planet involved is still gonna be around, as Omicron 81 is kinda a dead end.

Omicron-81 is not covered by the scope of these changes.

ILLINOIS!

I JUST FOUND A RACE TRACK THROUGH A MINE FIELD AND TRIED IT OUT AND ITS SUPER AWESOME
PLEASE TELL ME WE ARE GOING TO KEEP THAT!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!

I understand you are moving Attica Supermax to colorado but are you moving the race track too!
Its just too good to loose and I already have ideas for it!!!

Moving it out of a Guard system pretty m

ILLINOIS!

I JUST FOUND A RACE TRACK THROUGH A MINE FIELD AND TRIED IT OUT AND ITS SUPER AWESOME
PLEASE TELL ME WE ARE GOING TO KEEP THAT!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!

I understand you are moving Attica Supermax to colorado but are you moving the race track too!
Its just too good to loose and I already have ideas for it!!!

Having a race track as part of Liberty's most secure prison complex... I'm sorry, this isn't Death Race: 821 AS. If you ask really nicely though, and I find the free time for it, I could potentially put a minefield race course somewhere in Liberty.

O-100 was De-Guarded? Where Order must to "live"?

De-Guarding is not deletion; it is just a revision of the system's layout and a weakening of the system's NPC and static defenses.

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There was a sig here, once.

[nOmnomnOm]

Having a race track as part of Liberty's most secure prison complex... I'm sorry, this isn't Death Race: 821 AS. If you ask really nicely though, and I find the free time for it, I could potentially put a minefield race course somewhere in Liberty.

I am quite certain that you misunderstood me
It is not that I WANT a race track there.... it is that I have FOUND one there and I am asking since I thought you have used your time and consideration to design it there that it could be of some use in the future and I would not like to see it gone !

So you can place it somewhere else... I'd like to ask not too far away from the origonal spot? That mine-race track is simply unique and difficult/challenging to go through. I had to break cruise and turn that way. It was great! You should try it out!!

But yeah im asking reeaaally nicely could you please please Mr. Echo have the awesome race track moved somewhere if you are going to illuminate Illinois?

pleaseee pleaseee (puppy-dog-face) There are not many mine fields that are quite fun to race through and that is a great one!

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[Gypsie Skripto]

Baffin is not a Guard system.

Well, it was bought by us with the old Buy Your Faction's Guard System For Five Hundred Millions method.
Also, there are two Zoner Guard NPC dockable stations and 3 Zoner Guard Scrubby Farms, and only one regular Zoner NPC dockable station.
We enforce our own laws in it too, and there's no one else there but us.
Just because we're cool with everybody coming there it doesn't mean it's not guard.
What makes it less guard than say Puerto Rico or Hiroshima?

No need to reply tho, it's a pointless discussion, I know it.

Closer to the thousand posts tho!

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[Echo 7-7]

Having a race track as part of Liberty's most secure prison complex... I'm sorry, this isn't Death Race: 821 AS. If you ask really nicely though, and I find the free time for it, I could potentially put a minefield race course somewhere in Liberty.

I am quite certain that you misunderstood me
It is not that I WANT a race track there.... it is that I have FOUND one there and I am asking since I thought you have used your time and consideration to design it there that it could be of some use in the future and I would not like to see it gone !

So you can place it somewhere else... I'd like to ask not too far away from the origonal spot? That mine-race track is simply unique and difficult/challenging to go through. I had to break cruise and turn that way. It was great! You should try it out!!

But yeah im asking reeaaally nicely could you please please Mr. Echo have the awesome race track moved somewhere if you are going to illuminate Illinois?

pleaseee pleaseee (puppy-dog-face) There are not many mine fields that are quite fun to race through and that is a great one!

A Dev put it there a long time ago, and it's probably not even supposed to be a race track, just a way to confuse pilots that don't know how to make their way to the prison. It could potentially find its way to somewhere on the very fringes of Liberty.

(Afterthought: A race track in every house? Hmm... fun, but very low priority.)

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What makes it less guard than say Puerto Rico or Hiroshima?
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No, this is actually a very relevant question, so I'll explain.

The archetypal Guard system is characterised by bases which all display the faction's guard IFF, have system-wide maximum difficulty NPC patrols, and have maximum difficulty weapons platforms or static capital ships around the Jump Holes and/or Jump Gates. The system layout may or may not be designed to increase the "natural defensibility", such as challenging minefields or bases in very close proximity to Jump Holes/Gates.

In contrast, Baffin does not have Guard NPC patrols, weapon platforms around the jump holes, and has at least one non-Guard base. However, this does not make it any less "TAZ's system" inRP. In almost every case, player faction owned systems were the NPC faction's Guard system; but under the current classification, Baffin is an Owned system (as per Faction Right 1) despite not being a Guard system.

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There was a sig here, once.

[Gypsie Skripto]

Hey that was actually very enlightening (I hope I wrote that correctly). Thanks Echo.

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[nOmnomnOm]

well you see Echo ...
One person's trash is another person's treasure.

One person's way to fake a way into the prison whatever whatever with race rings is another persons race track

And since you are copy and pasting all those bases to Colorado why not then the track into Colorado too? Just a copy and paste.

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[Azan27]

Very interesting changes. I like the idea of a system cull. Also, trading using guard systems was always a bit of a strange affair.

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Let it burn.

[Vulkhard Muller]

pleaseee pleaseee (puppy-dog-face) There are not many mine fields that are quite fun to race through and that is a great one!

have you never been in the racetrack in Tottori? that thing is just crazy!

On topic: Could be interesting to see Trade routes going into these systems (some) or see some of these stations moved out into systems that are rather vacant.

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[Lythrilux]

Not sure if this was addressed or not, but on the subject of Kansas and Humboldt getting merged, what's going to happen to the POB in Humboldt? Is it going to stay in the field?

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