If you missed the recent community blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1WkoTJ3fc

The below is subject to change depending on what Eleon deliver with Alpha 8.

In summary and as at the time of writing this post - proposed changes to the server and rules are as follows:

- The Wolves Server will now comprise of 3 Origin factions. Names and 'bios' of these faction to be determined.
- 2 of these factions will be PVP factions locked into War with each other.
- The 3rd faction is pure PVE only.

The solar system is likely to be much smaller to encourage more contact and interaction with each other. territory is everything.
currently the 2 PVP factions will start on a single planet and the PVE faction to start on a seperate world.

- The PVP planet will exist entirely of Gold deposits. limited resources will be available from rocks, golems and fauna but no destructible POIs will exist on the planet.
- A single admin POI will exist on the planet. This will be a trade post with a freighter landing platform.
- The PVP planet will otherwise be a relatively vanilla planet seed.

- The PVE planet will be tougher to survive but much richer in materials. deposits of all starter resources will litter the planet.
- The PVE planet will also have a moon with a couple of rarer resource deposits available.
- Both the planet and the moon will be littered with vanilla POIs, drones and patrol vessels however.

- Other planets and asteroid fields will likely be added to the solar system in some way, these will be available to the PVE faction to colonise and mine and will allow the PVE faction to branch out into competing sub factions.

- The GW planet aka the Xenu homeworld will be setup for community events, this planet will include the custom POIs from the last season. With the buff in weapons strength and accuracy they received, they are now serious adversaries that will require all factions to unite!

- Trading is the only way the PVP factions can acquire large quantities of resources both common and rare.
- The PVP faction will mine Gold, that gold can be exchanged for resources with the PVE faction.
- The PVE faction conducting the trade must land a freighter at the admin POI on the PVP planet, the faction buying the goods must hand over the gold and receive delivery of the goods.
- The PVE faction is free to leave when the trade is concluded.
- The PVP faction must now get its goods back to the safety of thier base.
- Fighting is not permitted at the admin POI. In fact, no weapons are allowed in the building at all.
- Neither faction are allowed to exclusively control the POI by encircling it in defences for example.
- PVE sub factions can trade with other PVE sub factions in Gold.

- Offline attacks / raiding is permitted where offline protection has not been used to protect something.
- Only the PVP factions can conduct PVP battles, the PVE faction is allied with everyone so cannot be attacked and cannot attack other factions.
- Anti-griefing rules may be enabled to prevent drilling under bases or building next to other player bases to grief them.
- PVP action may occur anywhere the two PVP factions meet. even on other planets, even just outside the admin POI. crossfire may occur and PVE players may be hit accidently.
- Attacking the PVE factions on purpose will result in the alliance being dropped and that faction being blacklisted by the PVE factions and therefore no longer able to trade with them.
- PVP combat can happen anywhere at anytime, does not need to be declared or announced.

- PVP factions can build the allowed number of bases on the starter planet. They can build anywhere in space.
- PVE factions can build anywhere except the PVP starter planet.
- PVE factions must build mining HQ on planets to be able to mine that planet.
- PVE factions are the only ones allowed to use auto miners.
- If/When a PVP faction purchases their own planet, they have exclusive mining rights to that planet.
- CVs must have exposed rear thrusters (shutter windows blocks are ok).
- Cvs can have up to twice the size class of the ship in turrets.

- Only the PVE factions can use blueprints freely.
- Blueprints can be purchased from the PVE factions by the PVP factions at the admin POI on the PVP world.

Need to think about how blueprint purchasing will work, ideas suggestions welcome. What do we do about PVP faction buying CVs?
Sharing workshop items is a pain, how can we simplify this?
Are we limiting where things can be spawned, ie. platforms for CVs?

- A general RRP price sheet will be created as a guideline for commodities trading.
- Prices are otherwise set by the PVE factions based on supply and demand.
- PVE factions can opt to setup fixed price lists for blueprint types if they wish, for example:

• a small unarmed hover miner may cost 500,000 credits.
  
• a large armoured hover miner with a couple of turrets may cost 2,500,000 credits.

etc etc
This would streamline the buying process so we don't need to get a calculator out each time someone wants to buy a basic blueprint.

All questions, critique, ideas, suggestions etc are welcome!