So I'm starting to get really pissed with the people UA bombing and their supposed "reasons" for doing it. So they can shift the focus of the galaxy away from certain stations by literally shutting them down. I would be totally cool with all of that IF it wasn't able to be done by just ONE or a FEW HANDFUL (read less than 10) people (read down to that link below). Their main reason (from what i've seen) for Bombing places like Robigo and ceos, is that they believe these stations, with their missions they give out, are game breaking due to the high rewards they offer. HOWEVER they, in a few instances, have even claimed to have made their money off of the very system they are bombing because they believe it to be game breaking, BUT ONLY SO THEY CAN "SAVE" THE REST OF US FROM THE GAME THEY BROKE THEMSELVES. IMO money is a means to an end. So you farm robigo, or ceos or w/e and you made billions. wonderful. 1. you have only increased your political standing in the system you got rich off of, no drastic change in powers, no great increase in faction station (unless you found one on the edge of their space), no change but your bank account. 2. So you're rich now. Wonderful. go buy your dream a-grade anaconda, or w/e you had your heart set on. That still doesn't mean you have the still to properly pilot/outfit it. If the reason the bombers were mad was that they didn't like the influx of higher tier ships, they would just pirate the mostly-harmless anaconda's and kill the brats with the expensive toys. 3. This game is INCREDIBLY hard to play without some form of moderate income (in-game, you can still be a NEET IRL). I used to bounty hunt in a budget cobra III. i had to limit myself to only solo-mode, only targets that were slower and less equiped than me, and i STILL died fairly often. Yes, i know, i probably suck at combat. w/e. I now have a vulture with ideal setup, and i'm actually having FUN BHing, for a change. yes i still die sometimes, but i'm not afraid to go after that 'conda with a 200k bounty now, it's just challenging, that's all.

Now they (ua bombers) may complain that with the cash they can change the balance of power in PP. well, i hate to tell you boys, but if they change the balance of power more than you, it's because you're too busy bombing stations, and their busy playing the PP game instead. maybe if you stopped abusing the potential future enemy (thargoids potentially or w/e), and played the features FD pushed forward, you could have fun too.

The bombers may also say "oh hey, you can just sell meta-alloys to bring the station back online". That's if they are nice and feel like making you THINK it's fair to just say that. Usually they just are like "only stay in the bubble, be a good newby pawn and follow in my footsteps" and you have to find out about meta-alloys yourself. What they don't tell you is that they can find, transport, and sell 650 ( here ) in the time it takes (at least me) to gather and sell only about 150, buying from maia, on a good week. you read that right, Jmanis transports and sells 650 UAs to various stations, all by himself, in 40 hours of play, which sounds like he doesn't have a job and plays ED all week, which is fine in itself, it just ruins the game for the rest of us who can only put in about 15 hours a week. Also only those with horizons can fight the bombing. which sucks.

Lets do a little discussion about the logic of high paying missions far out from the bubble. Say you live in hawaii, and i live in NYC. You want to ship your local domestic product of tiki torches to me. and you want to send 6 tons of them. you have to pay shipping on the 6 tons of torches to get them to me. Shipping is probably going to cost MUCH more than the actual 6 tons of torches themselves. That's why those long haul missions pay so much money, because there is such a distance to travel. The bombers may say "but in ED you can transport that 6t and like another 90t of stuff in under an hour". You're right. And Fedex can transport those 6t of torches, probably within 3 days via plane. But they probably won't. Why you ask? because fedex will wait to FILL UP THE PLANE with orders. just like you do when you sit at a station waiting for the lucrative missions to pop up.

I say that if you want to disable stations, pressure FD in to making it so only certain, friendly to you power, friendly to your faction/minor faction, w/e, only they can access your station. But if that person then allies them self with your faction/pp of choice, then YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT. because that's how it works IRL. I work for company A. Salesman 1 comes to our company, is a complete dick to me, and our company doesn't buy anything from him. However, he becomes a new employee of company A as a salesman for us. He's still a dick to me. BUT I HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT CAUSE HE'S PART OF MY COMPANY NOW. <-- true story.

With the bombing of far out stations, you're limiting the growth of the bubble. I'd like the bubble to expand, to maybe take over half of the galaxy in a few years. You're bombing the starting steps of that expansion into oblivion saying "no, you can only stay 200LY from sol unless you're exploring, but if you do anything else out there you're a traitor.

All in all, i feel that this UA bombing thing is very unfair for those of us trying to enjoy the three core aspects of this game, those being trading, combat, and exploring, since you can't get missions or do trade commodities, can't turn in bounties, and can't sell cartography data to them when they are down. Also, so say it really is just the "white knight vigilantes" doing it right now for "noble" reasons. What's to stop real trolls, the kind that literally just want to fuck up a game until it's unplayable, from bombing Every main station? First it starts with the extremely lucrative long haul missions, Then the rare-goods stations ALL go down, Next is the stations with the highest commodity profit trading slaves and beryllium or w/e it is this week. Then they focus on the PowerPlay centers, which by the way will DESTROY a power if you cant get the propaganda to get merits (yes i know theres still undermining an w/e, it's just taking away the safe version of PP), or they focus on the Permit only systems like Sol, Achenar, Alioth, and Sirius, just to make getting that permit completely useless, or they will bomb every station that sells 'condas, or FDLs, or whatever OP ship/module/engineer/w/e they deem "too OP". These trolls, who will either come to or grow from our ED population, will absolutely destroy the game for everyone, and everyone new will be stuck in sideys simply flying star to star sight seeing since there is LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE THEY CAN DO.