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EARTHDATE: August 2, 2009

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EJECTION DIFFICULTIES

by Hazed

So what comes next for Plutocrats? Well, Bella is working on the command to let them throw people out of the cartel. After all, sometimes people outstay their welcome.

However, this is not as simple as it sounds. The question is, what happens to a system that gets ejected from a cartel? Answer: it has to be put into another cartel - we don't have a state of limbo where unwanted systems get put. Specifically, it will be put into the Sol cartel. But the request to join the cartel can't be handled in the same way as it does when someone asks to join. If a Plutocrat ejects a system they want them gone right away, they don't want to have to wait until the owner of another cartel decides to admit the system in question. So any request to join the Sol cartel - whether by choice, or by ejection from another one - has to be handled right away. You can't have a pending queue for Sol.

That's why it's more complicated than you would think at first, and why it wasn't something Bella could just code up in a hurry!


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