ChefGerstmann, on 24 February 2015 - 12:42 AM, said:
Three houses have no clan border. These two statements are irreconcilable.
Before you go saying "but anybody can fight on the clan border" that **** is boring when it doesn't have an impact on your house's borders and more than one southern house player has confirmed that much.
Thing is, we southern houses can still help in several ways.
- We can defend. Not as much fun nor as effective as attacking the clans as well in our own faction name, but...
- We can shift allegiances to other factions to temporarily help.
- We southern houses can even agree to just fight amongst ourselves and leave the northern houses to concentrate on the clans. (Which still wouldn't be a bad idea for the game.)
- We can also even try to gain attack lanes by doing things similar to the Island, and then let that respective house reclaim those worlds once contact with a clan is established. (Once we have a world touching a clan, we don't need any of the other worlds. Just a small buffer up there so we don't have to reset the whole thing if the clans take one world back or something.)
Kurita is in a strange position as far as that last option goes. The attack system seems to always aim at bringing factions to take over the other faction's capital. Kurita's capital is behind enemy lines right now, which would lead attackers towards the clans. Kurita also shares a boarder with the southern houses. (Unlike FRR.) They also had a worm hole that jumped one southern house almost right to the clans front doorstep.
Attacking Steiner to gain those same attack lanes would not be as effective. They haven't had the clans dig as deep into their territory. Their capital is also firmly still in their factions main body, and is not near the fighting. They also seem to be capable of at least holding the clans mostly in check.
FRR is in the most desperate place for help. However, they only share boarders with two other northern houses. I do wonder what they would say if something similar to the Wormhole happened near them. Would they have let us (any southern house that had the wormhole) try and reach the clans the same we we proposed? And then just take those worlds back behind us if we had progress? Or would they also have shut down/refused the project because of their low planet count?