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5 hours ago, The Fremen said:

why can’t a total ally help defend the HW of the other total ally? If he tries he will get blown up by the PDC of the HW. Of course the total allies could agree to take out the PDC’s of each other’s HW and build new ones not named Bastion. In this way they could help defend each other HW’s but then along comes a previously unknown alien again that slips by the pickets and we are back to square one. Like I said in a previous post the Yankee encounter order will solve this issue in a few keystrokes. 

The Draco ROE restriction isn't set in stone, and I'll certainly take a look at adding Yankee back in.

Bastions exist as Zulu-mandated, non-tow-capable units both to provide early immunity to DMX and player intrusion on your home planet and to prevent the exploit of easy cross-conquering of home planets which would greatly unbalance the region.  Once they're outclassed by player forces, which probably isn't all that far off for the older empires, I could understand why you'd want to co-defend home worlds with your allies.  If you want a second home planet, at least you have to earn it as the Bastions must be taken out somehow.

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A real Total Ally wouldn't, but if you could set your Bastions to Yankee, you could have a friend come in, drop a beacon, and conquer your world, all arranged ahead of time by both of you.  Can't have that, so Zulu is mandatory for the Bastions.  Once they're gone, well, at least somebody had to work for the conquer instead of cheesing it.

 

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That's certainly an option.  Preventing early exploits and therefore huge imbalances in local space (which would only spread) made it well worth the mandated Zulu.  Once the Bastions can be overcome by real enemies or your Total Ally coming in to clear them, they'd have already done their job.  At that point players had best build up solid defenses of their own against whoever they consider serious threats, or risk being crushed  :python:

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