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Nation Blockade Warp Escapes

Oct 11, 2024 Night_Star7 link
Nation blockades are very disruptive, which is kinda the point, but also to the point where players from blockaded nations can't play the game as they normally would like. So I've got a suggestion where players from the blockaded nation can warp to a station, preferably Odia M14, "since the UIT can't favour any side in the war by warping enemies in, and must therefore go through Corvus which is a third party", just like how UIT players can warp in and out of Geira Rutilus and Deneb (or was it Eo? For simplicity and my mind's sake, assume it's Deneb).

As someone with Hated with Itan, I can't fly into Itan or Serco space directly, but I can bypass the Serco blockade by warping to Geira Rutilus and then getting a ship to sail around Serco, which isn't really fair to Serco players being blockaded in with no way out. To make it more fair and true to the Blockade idea, in the case of Serco players to warp to Odia, there will be a daily/weekly cap limit for teleports due to "limited resources", the teleport price will be increased greatly again due to "limited resources and for bribing Corvus" (subject to balancing from devs) instead of the standard UIT price of 50000 C, and they continuously run the risk of Unrat blockades. The UIT warps will remain the same, unless there's a balancing issue.

There's an additional idea, where players from blockaded nations cannot Set Home in grey space or UIT space, meaning that each time they die, they get sent back to their home nations, which makes Unrat blockades and dying in general more dangerous and costly for Blockaded players. There's also the situation where say, a Serco player had set Dau L10, or any station not in Serco, as their home BEFORE the blockade, and so after the blockade begins, their home will automatically be set to Sol II.

I don't know how difficult it'll be to program and implement this in game, but I'd say it's a valid idea.
Oct 11, 2024 Night_Star7 link
One more thing, in a scenario where Itani blockades Serco, only Serco can teleport to Odia, because "The Itan government doesn't want to waste money on bribing Corvus for a useless venture", and it goes both ways as well.
Nov 09, 2024 Renaar link
You can easily make it through the blockade in base model Centurion or even an EC104 if you need to get home. Other ideas are just don't home outside of nationspace if youre worried about the blockade (when you die you will be sent back safely). Or use it as an oppotunity to restock some weapons by bringing a missle boat and clearing out the fighters.

There is plenty of opportunities at blockaded wormholes. Just gotta think outside the box and not get frustrated. Even if you can't handle the blockade, there are players willing to help clear the blockade or give suggestions how to survive if you ask in 100. You'd be suprised.