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And this viewpoint sums up your original post in a nutshell. If you were to take the game more seriously you'd find yourself finding more success. Those who take the game more seriously should profit more in the game than those who don't.

You are not powerless. You simply lack the will to obtain power. Your lack of will translates into a complaint that it's "too hard". It's too hard for _you_ and people like you, because people like you don't _want_ to look at the game more seriously and dedicate more effort to succeeding in the game because you have relegated it to a less serious status. Punishing those who have submitted that level of dedication is both a salute to mediocrity and a slap in the face of invention, tenacity, ferocity and guile.

You get what you give. In real life. In games. In love. Whatever.

I'm guessing you haven't made it too far in real life either.

Randomly despawning and shifting moon minerals around is a bad idea because it does nothing to solve the problem. Having materials move around would only benefit large organised alliances like us and PL and the various Russians, because we have the manpower and the organisational resources to go out and find those new minerals when they move. I've previously been part of Goonswarm's Reconnaissance division, and I've taken part in expeditions to scan entire regions for moons and towers, we can cover a huge number of systems very quickly. If you create a gold rush every month to find the new tech moons, the current big powers will win that race every time, smaller alliances will still be excluded from the running and the only thing that would change is which particular superpower grabs more of the moons on that particular month.

You did, right here, on this very page


see?


Pandemic Legion has little to no actual reimbursement, and we just ended our alliance ship policy so I've no idea what you mean, ships in PL are sourced by the member, who is expected to keep his wallet intact throughout moves across the galaxy, if you can't do that you don't deserve to be here


Actually our attack was soundly beaten back by the DC, using ...hold on, this may shock you, tactics, actual tactics, that didn't involve lemming like drives into walls of fire.


I mean, our wallet is super fat, I'm not going to lie to you, we held Dyspro and Prom when it was king, and we used that financial base to build a force that could go after and hold Tech once that changed.

We have spies everywhere, in many instances in director level positions, so I have to ask you, what exactly do you think will happen if they changed the moons to a more dynamic system?

I'll help you:

1) You'd find a moon that yielded some super high end mineral and you'd throw up a miner and start pulling the ore.

2) We'd get wind of it pretty fast and mobilize to come see you.

3) In the mean time, the dynamic spawn system and the amount of work involved in finding the tech has now made the market prices on it spike, this translates into huge spikes in t2 prices, putting the ships out of the reach of the common grunt of most alliances.

4) You would face a fleet from someone like us, comprised entirely of t2/t3 ships while your fleet would be filled with scrub ships and BS covered in meta gear and t1 mods because the cost of t2 mods has gone through the roof.

5) You'd lose your moon 1 day and 17 hours after we attacked, as well as whatever fleet you brought to defend it, we'd not bother to loot or salvage your flotilla of scrap because it wouldn't be worth our time.

6) When the moon ran out we'd let the tower run out of fuel and go offline because the now amped up price of whatever mineral we were mining more than covered the cost of operations and materials

7) We'd leave, you'd still be broke, only now your alliances morale is in the toilet because you got steam rolled by a better armed and armored force.

All this has happened before and all this will happen again.

Putting a POS in reinforce mode, no matter how large and how many hardeners are not the issue at all. The real issue is at every high end moon, is an alt ready to log in and set the strontium timer to come out at THEIR peak time at a later date.

Congratulations, you put the tower in reinforce mode. Good luck finishing it off when that corporation, its alliance, all of its blues are there within jump range to hot drop you with hundreds of capitals and dozens upon dozens of super capitals to wipe out your fleet in a matter of a couple minutes. Once done, they triage a few carriers and voilà, that POS you worked so hard to take down is completely repaired and filled back up with strontium. As if you never touched it at all.

So yes, they lost out on a few million in moon goo while it was in reinforce mode, but they are circle jerking hard core over hot dropping your fleet. They view every aspect of your operation as a complete failure and they walk away satisfied blowing up billions and billions in ships that once represented your endeavor to carve out a piece of space for your corp and yourself.

Choose your target well? Please share with us your vast knowledge of a good target that won't result in it S.O.S'ing every blue pilot from here to the other side of the galaxy to come and hot drop you when the timer is up? Any targets that can have its moon liberated from them has happened looooong ago by one of the 2-3 super coalitions. The moons that are left barely pay for the fuel that is needed to run them.

If you would start play the eve meta game, you would realize that Dotlan tells you exactly where all those moons in one place are, and how well used that system is. but then you just want to keep whining about the big bad goons to Mommy CCP and demanding they change the game, rather than, you know, form a fleet to take one, which is obvious.

never, NEVER stop posting.

I fail ...

... to see how moving moon materials around would be any worse, compared to the current situation where the superpowers hold the moons indefinitely.

Personally, I would just like a little acknowledgment from the moderators when they delete multiple posts in a thread. It's just polite.

I think I agree with everything you said except this, I can't see how a moon could be taken and held against a vastly superior force. I do however disagree with the OP's suggestion of moving minerals around randomly, large alliances would still retain the advantage in finding the moons and the capacity to blob any credible threat in claiming them.

The fact that EvE is controlled by a small number of very large and powerful alliances is almost inevitable in my view. For CCP to fight it they would need to artificially break up the alliances, perhaps intentionally create internal conflict or motivation to break into smaller groups and fight one another. I for one cannot see how that could be done in a reasonable, non game-breaking, manner.

On top of that, people in those alliances have worked hard to control all that they do. Part of their power or wealth may come from the advantage of having been in the game early on, but then so are skill point advantages. I don't see anyone QQing about them (not often, anyway). Removing their control of the resources they fought for, or intentionally nerfing their capacity to control large areas of space, is not the answer in my eyes.

One other good point brought up in this thread though was that a lot of the moons these alliances control are actually in territory where they are not active, and that seems extremely silly to me. After hearing that I checked, and there is a tech moon with a Raiden pos in my home system, I have never seen a Raiden member in system as long as I have been there.

Perhaps adding a method to attack a POS without alerting the owner, so the owner will only be aware if the pos is checked on, could stretch resources and allow smaller alliances a foot in the door (more likely it would gain CCP more alt accounts though).

tl;dr: The fact that an alliance I have never seen in my system controls that systems resources is just silly, but I disagree with more or less everything else the OP said. I also know nothing about mining, moon mining, T2 production or... well, anything I just wrote a massive wall of text about. I probably should have put that as a disclaimer at the top, eh?

Didn't they say they were messing with t2 production in the winter expansion, or was that just t2 rig production? Would be interesting to see what plans they've got.

I believe they are adding new Tech 2 items, don't think it said anything about 'addressing' Tech 2 production