Willow Whisp
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Posted - 2008.01.10 14:36:00 -
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 Originally by: Ursula LeGuinn
I believe jetcans used to be white upon jettisoning, way back in the day. But people started using them to mine (unintended), the devs decided to label snatching such mining cans as stealing eventually, and here we are today, with pirates using can-flipping to try to force PvP (metagaming, IMO).
It's metagaming because half the time, the pirate isn't even there to actually steal the ore. He's in fact there to annoy the miners and force PvP, if they will take the bait.
Only half-right, i'm afraid.
Jet cans didn't used to be labeled at all, as they were considered jetissoning garbage in space, and anyone that happened upon it could freely salvage the contents of this space-trash (incidentally, just like salvage works, now).
Then, Miners starting using jetisson containment fields to temporarily store their minerals when mining, as the fields were large enough to contain a vastly increased capacity - much greater than the mining ships' cargo holds.
Eventually, some less-than-well-intentioned pod-pilots noticed this, and started claiming their salvage rights to clean up this space trash.
The pod-pilot mining consortiums raised such a fuss on the GalNet channels, that they forced CONCORD to develop a tagging mechanism with jetisson containment fields, that would tag the containment fields as "property of" the mining consortiums, and anyone found tampering with them were flagged with temporary global criminal agression rights toward the owner of the containment fields and it's corporate consortium owners.
This caused much celebration among the mining consortiums, until they realized that those less-than-well-intentioned pod-pilots generally had superior combat vessels than the defenseless mining consortiums could provide.
And there, you have the RP background on why "Jetisson containment field agression" is NOT metagaming.
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