House Advanced jump gates

[Eboksba]

The joy of this game is in RP. If you were to remove the various factors that make it fun, like pirating, and place something that would remove it, like an incredibly rich trader that just teleports across the sector to trade, and still make profit off of it, would ruin the rp completely. Plus, removing them and turning them on to avoid people using it when its not there required you downloading the mod everytime. unless Ioncross works that out.

RP is fine, if you can't run to one end of the sector to the other without being blowed up, then thats your problem.

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.

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[Tarrant5445]

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.

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[RmJ]

I think your missing the big point here it just won't fly. Lock unlock there's no point to having them. List out all the pro's that it would provide. Please.

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[Eboksba]

Besides, it builds character! The police don't seem to be complaining about the speed of their ship.

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[Tarrant5445]

I think your missing the big point here it just won't fly. Lock unlock there's no point to having them. List out all the pro's that it would provide. Please.

Role play benifits
diplomatic - allies, co operation, Lending of military aid , role play to keep the gates working, trade agreements, tourists

exploration - regarding proto type or if you dont do one to a house controlled system ya could have two connecting random spots in the middle of no were lots of other exploration potential etc etc.

scientific and research: this would be a great leap forward in this technology, it would give scientists an researchers something to rp about how they made it work were the idea came from they can even help to do maintenance on it. It would be breaking news headlines giant leap forward in jumpgate technology

military - patrols gives navies something to look after role play between houses, role play with traders if there limit is up, Tariffs etc and more

House trade: trading between houses would be increased and roleplay would be needed to keep that working

Trader: traders would have to persuade the military to let them through after there limit is up they would also have to deal with tariffs and role play that sort of thing.

in game benefits.
Economy flows even more money traders earns a percentage goes to house coffers and can be used to increase there factories or fund there military or put it into more research for new ideas an technology- through tariffs also cancelling power traders

trader benefits
they would gain a few more profits easier but not much they would get charged a a tariff maybe money goes to house military or police coffers.

civilian - tourism, exploration (help newbies get about)

You are given another way to role play.

I would give ya more benifits but its 1 am an im a bit tired if ya need more though with a re energised mind i would happily supply.

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[Kambei]

just forget on this stupid idea...

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[Tarrant5445]

just forget on this stupid idea...

but isnt this place for discussing and bouncing ideas, were small ideas that might seem insignificant are added to moulded, potential benifits and negatives are discussed an how things can be moulded to be better an what can make them better.

Stupid ideas, are the big silence were ideas don't exist.

rome wasn't built in a day and I bet this server wasn't either it came ground up piece by piece with probably what you might call stupid ideas but have been moulded and worked on into things that work with lots of peoples contribution.

Instead of saying Stupid idea say is it possible to alter it and make it better, to make it work.
I bet the hoover dam was a stupid idea, the waters too dangerous, its too hard its a rediculous idea when we can get energy from other sources safely. But hey that stupid idea is one of the worlds great wonders making a lot of electricity.

anyway getting off topic... back to topic

if this idea is so silly why is it sooooooo stupid, and why dont you try an contibute to it an attempt to make it better.

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[Kambei]

there are 4 pages about why is that wrong idea (super JG between 2 states)... I thing thatts enoug

automatic taxing for passing thru JG and sending collected funds to player groupes (BAF, RM etc...)

- can you imagine how much players jump in same moment somewhere in sirius? Can you imagin how much it is in minute whene is on server more than 100ppl? Now try imagine how much running scripts your taxing will need? I want stabil server without fails and lags. Server can be shooten down just if someone cary too much nonstockable items in hold or if someone have more than 1.9 miliard of credits... do you think all those scripts on JGs will work withour problems?

- who programe it?

- who will send those collected money to fractions? Admins? Realy? Havent they enough work now? Another script? How? On special character?

- Who are those privileged fractions which wil recieve those credits? Outcast in Sigma 13 because GMG is presented here only on paper? Who in Bretonia? BAF, BPA or WT? Who in Rheinland? RM from NB and RHA/VF from rest? etc. etc.

cheers

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[dr lameos]

The discussion about taxing has already been done. It would be an RP way for lawfuls to earn their money - at present the only way is by jumping on to their trader (quite un-RP)

However with allthe additional server processes being implemented it would make it less stable, and to distribute the cash afterwards would have to be an admin job... so its a no go.

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[Tarrant5445]

Hmm well tariffs should be split between the lawful factions that own that space, unless agreed by all factions in that space it should go to a certain faction e.g. the armed forces or police or to an industry faction.

As for the tarif collection ya could charge a set price for carrying a certain cargo type e.g. vips then it doesn't calculate for all the stacked items .

worse gets to worse do it by hand get the human military or police to do the taxing then ya dont have to put a script in if it causes that much hassle and then it would add even more roleplay

Please read my posts for the last few i have stated it wouldnt be a capital system for obvious reasons. it would be a controlled set of jumpgates too. why ya dont have to do the whole shibang why not just the proto type that randomly throws you into a random system one way if that is causing you grief.

Programing - this is a community thing if it were to be an all round accepted idea the people with the skills would contribute if they wished.

Why don't you now have a go at making it better with your ideas and skills how would YOU make this work or feel this could work if you were that way inclined. ideas are made to be built on an arguing back an forth is not productive to making more ideas for discovery an potenentials.

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