Let's destroy the Trade Capital!
Militia being able to discourage trade at 'trade capitals'
I suspect Militia may bring about plundering markets, changing economies where players have to relocate their goods for nominal value. Sounds oh-so cool making trade capitals fall and spreading players around the universe to different markets.
Trade capitals are well-known, and so the human mind is to interact with others. Where there's more people there is more fun: Jita 4-4 has 1000+ occupants.
How would war effect market?Solarsystem market taxes can immediately become so high to financially support local battles. This turns station's 'civilian market' into military support, supporting resupply of war's finances and services.
Basically, when war is around the stations and planets within solarsystem become 'militarized'. an additional layer of tax is placed for each station's sovereign identity, and this credit is converted to Loyalty Points (FW) and Standings (Corp & Faction). The whole purpose to bring down 'trade capitals' and have players make either a profitable decision or a investment decision. The profitable decision is to go elsewhere. The investment decision is to support the station's faction to victory.
This questions Faction warfare gameplay (new)For this to begin, the impending war must prompt all locals. This is done by Militia defiantly persevering a Constellation into 'peak activity', from which then a whole Constellation becomes a
war siren. This tells Militia players where the battle is at to greater focus combat activity with auto-activated
Military-class Cynosural Field Generators (NPC) and shake-up the local market.
Those NPC Military-class Cynosural Field Generators are well-guarded opened by your sovereignty, are hacked by the enemy Militia to use and, most interestingly, hacked by Incursion invaders. Sansha's Nation could decidedly pour-blast through a disengaged Constellation alert in attempt to resolve and punish inactivity.
How would this work, exactly? There may be a limit of active 'alerts' in Constellations like there are only a few Sansha's Nation Incursions. This denies covering the whole universe with Constellation alerts.
This Constellation-wide alert gives stations if ever managed by one single capsuleer or corporation the option to have it support local warfare ('Militarized station' where Militia are resupplied and respawn freely). However, this makes that player a Militia target until the local Constellation becomes safe.
How are Constellation war alerts triggered?? Most highest warfare activity within Constellation's solarsystems.
Station conversions (two types):- Civilized Station - normal; solarsystem(s) (small) or constellation (big) do not give Militia free services.
- Militarized Station - applied additional heavy taxing to fund free services for Militia in Constellation.
What are the bonuses of 'militarized stations'?- Militia are supported with additional 'respawn locations' using Templar-grade Clones like those of DUST players & Fanfest trailer.
:: "Imagine the military application!"
:: "The power they would have. They would be--" :: "Immortal."
- Militia are supported of station's finances and services, bringing Militia-class (T1 Improved) ship-loss reimbursements and and free services, whilst funding and servicing local 'Garrison Outposts'. This keeps Militia capsuleers incentives in correspondent to the responsible risks they've chosen and accepted.
- Any player using the station, paying the 'militia tax' will increase Standings (Corp & Faction) and Loyalty Points (FW) to them.
- They deny enemy docking the station even sometime after local Constellation faction warfare has ended.
What are the consequences of 'militarized stations'? Impose an additional, unavoidable 'militia tax' on players sub-sequently placing market orders, selling, buying, using services. This does not exempt Militia corporations.
This is the instigation of this post: Militia can destroy player-selected 'trade capitals'! This disproves trade hubs and spreads players across the universe particularly away from Jita 4-4.
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