It was mentioned in another thread about alt abuse that is found around Nyrius F-6 due to the manu of BRH at that station. An alternative was mention that RBH can be built in Brac Station also. The problem with that is Nyrius requires 2 FCP and Bractus requires 5 FCP.

My suggestion is to change the requirements at Bractus station to match those of Nyrius. I have never seen the reasoning for having RBH buildable at stations and the one that is Conquerable requires a player to haul 2 and half times as much FCP to build it.

This would require players to transport across Grey space with possible Unrat attacks, but if the requirements were the same many would do it just to avoid the bot abuse and attacks in Nyrius.

-1 Things are supposed to be harder in grey space. The ability to build in M14 Bractus is a nice alternative, expecially for those kos with biocom and/or uit but it should be more trouble. More FCP required is a fine trade off.

Unrats are almost not a danger anymore because people kill them on a schedule now. And the so called alt abuse that is going on is primarily a group of players and not alts.

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"Things are supposed to be harder in grey space."

Since when? Pretty sure the first place you get a moth is in grey. Pretty sure the easiest place to get SSS in in grey. Pretty sure it's easier to kill people without consequences in grey.

I see absolutely no reason to NOT make the requirements the same. If anything the requirements in Nyrius should be higher since there is protection offered by the faction system.

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Easiest place to get SSS is in capitol systems. Specifically Itan, Sol II, Dau. You can scoop with a capital ship and unload directly in a cap station. Easy peasy.

The first place you can get a moth is in grey, yes. However, getting back out in one, as a truly in-experienced pilot, isn't so reliable. You also need to build up sufficient Corvus standing to do so. There is a trade off to be made. Wider selection at a given set of license levels, but less safety, and convenience.

@lnh You just prove my point. Grey is dangerous enough, why charge a premium for capship part production?

I like to think that BioCom Industries' interest in robotic technologies(among other things) have allowed them to more efficiently manufacture RBH compared to Corvus's technologies.

I feel like manufacturing should generally be cheaper in a conquerable station in greyspace than in a relatively safe, faction-owned station in nation space. On the other hand, I assume that manufacturing in nation space means hauling the finished parts through a longer stretch of greyspace to get them to the next stage of manufacturing? I don't have enough first-hand -- let alone recent -- experience with manufacturing to know how much weight to assign that. My gut instinct, however, is that the nation-space cost should be increased to at least match the greyspace cost.

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Number of FCP required aside, it's harder to make RB in Nyrius than in Bractus. Lower requirements in Nyrius keep people going there.