Powerplay strange logic

lefty1117

L
As an opposing, Hostile flagged member of a Power, I can fly at will to any of my competition's Headquarters systems where I can interdict and gank noobies at will. Player response notwithstanding.

As an unaffiliated pilot with some cargo to sell I can't fly into Sol without a permit.

This strikes me as a strange sort of logic ... inconsistent ... I'm curious for feedback as perhaps I'm just looking at it the wrong way. But I just can't wrap my head around why there are enemy Power players flying around in Nanomam when I can't even deliver cargo to Vega. :S:S
 

Lupin

Lupin
On the other side of this logic is the FACT that power do not have the resources to protect there Headquarters systems.
Allowing a player planetly blockage, which will would stop any of the powers being able to do fortification or expanion.

Also none of the current powers seem to have capital ship to protect there Headquarters system.

Testing powerplay at the moment, and if a power can not protect it's Headquarters system and therefor it's supports why support them?
 

Bacalao

Bacalao
Powers aren't governments, they are influences that may have day jobs in the government (ALD, Zach, Ed, etc). They have an enormous amount of influence in their home territory but they don't own it, they aren't the law (though they can influence some: Antal=more smuggling fines, Bubble Gum=no slavery). These are individuals with such an enormous effect on the galactic political landscape that regular governments have basically said "okay, you and you are enemies, stay out of each others faces, if you go over to his neighborhood, we're not going to do anything to you for shooting him, but if you go back to his and start trouble, we'll be after you". It's a pretty dystopian view of a future society where glorified frats are allowed to kill a pledge from another frat that walks onto their lawn. So while they affect the economy, crime or prices of ships/modules in the territories they influence, even ALD can't call a cap ship in to protect her headquarters any more than Phi Theta Kappa can call in a tank to protect their frat house even if the president/prime minister is the top dog in their frat.
 
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