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Mithrandir
Chief Marshal
Joined: October 22, 2001
Posts: 1276
|  Posted: 2006-09-26 15:53
I made the following changes today:
Renamed the UGTO Home Gate to Bifrost Fleet Foundry.
Renamed the ICC Home Gate to Shi Jie Shipyards.
Renamed the Kluth Home Gate to Sag'Keja Fleet Armory.
Moved Bifrost Fleet Foundry to orbit Earth, approximately 2000gu away.
Moved Shi Jie Shipyards to orbit Exathra, approximately 1500gu away.
Moved Sag'Keja Fleet Armory to orbit Sag Hothha, approximately 2300gu away.
Moved Sag Hothha further away from its cluster.
Moved Leaph closer to Sag Hothha and set it to orbit Sag. This creates a "Home Cluster" for the Kluth, similar to the two-planet setup of the other factions.
Extended the safe zones of all three home gates to 3000 gu. This prevents any weapons fire (including Bombs) around the home clusters.
Since there are now safe zones around the Home planets of each faction, fighting is not allowed in their vicinity. Current rules prohibit using Safe Zones as a refuge from enemy attacks, and since the Home planets are now within Safe Zones, the end result is that enemy ships cannot hang out near enemy Home planets. This is made easier, however, by each Home Cluster being somewhat isolated from neighboring planets; none should be within about 10k of another planet. Because of this rule, you should avoid Earth, Exathra, and Sag Hothha by at least 5k gu. Wandering into their area and not leaving immediately is illegal and will be dealt with appropriately.
Also, the safe zones mean you cannot land troops or bomb the home planets. This leaves them available as a haven for a faction in case their other planets are all bombed or captured. It also means, though, that if they revolt to another faction, it will require Staff assistance to put them back to their natural faction. Contact a staff member if this intervention is required.
Hopefully these changes allay some of the complaints of late about uncontrolled bombing and the inability of factions to have anywhere that isn't susceptible to being bombed flat.
ps - I recommend you mod the home clusters to remove planetary defense, since it won't be necessary. Then they can become spawning and modding centers that will always be available for your use.
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Shigernafy
Admiral
Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 5726
From: The Land of Taxation without Representation
| Posted: 2006-10-14 18:43
As clarification, factions are allowed to use their own home clusters and safe zones for whatever purpose they want; they can hang out in there all day if it pleases them. However, enemies are not allowed in this area - so an ICC cannot orbit Earth or otherwise be in the UGTO Safe Zone (and so on, for all factions).
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Mr Black
Grand Admiral
Palestar
Joined: September 20, 2003
Posts: 486
From: Gaifenland
| Posted: 2007-05-09 20:01
Bumping up the view list for newer players...
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Doran
Chief Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2008-04-07 22:03
just a bump to reiterate that there is a 3k gu safe zone at the home planets, and a 5k gu no-fly zone in addition to that.
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