EVE General Discussion

They get to watch the special victory video then watch the credits scroll down the screen. Then they are able to enter their initials if they got a high score.

Then hard mode unlocks, and they can play through the game again with it 3x harder.

Would never happen... Too many people have different views of the game so no one would get along enough to get to that point, some would go elsewhere and others would form resistance alliance's to keep it from happening.

Well in Highsec online, that doesn't seem to be a problem....

Even if one Alliance took all of NullSec eventually some drama would happen in that Alliance and it would fragment and break apart.

Also everyone hates the guy on top, there will be others who band together to stop them.

If nullsec became a bluefest then the current batch of loonies who took over would be ill-equipped to control that kind of vast territory easily. I believe the Goons and Test exploited the fact that BoB spread out too thin if I recall the history correctly.

All it would take to turn it into lawless space at that point would be a nerf to reinforce timers and a buncha maniacs with dreads and battleships to go play kick the can on POSes and Sov control units. taking territory would be optional, but unnecessary in the face of the sheer joy of burning everything down.

there are always people willing to burn your **** down. Because it's yours.

This would be one of the main reasons for ganking in highsec. The gankers by and large don't care if they profit. They care about properly burning your house down.

(this blanket statement does not apply to goons interdicting ice and murdering every capital freighter they can find with Pilots too stupid to realize that autopilot is not your friend, nor does it apply to gankers who use ship scanners and cargo scanners to ferret the juiciest loot out.)

Officer fit machariels are just as delicious to the enterprising ganker as a freighter fulla technetium bought straight off the Jita market.

If the goons, or TEST, or one of those particular variety of coalition rose to the top and kicked everyone out I could see them all burning down everything and forcing everyone to start again from zero. Mostly to **** everyone off, partly because the level of violence caused by people jockeying for space would be epic, and would continuously feed their desire for good fights, and lopsided, horrific slaughters.

they fade and die in a fire

An alliance cant 'win eve'. i'll tell you why.

The only type of alliance that could ever have a shot at 'winning eve' would be a PVP alliance.

What do PVP'ers want? Targets.

Once they've won, what will they have for targets? Nothing.

The alliance that 'won' would then crumble quickly and turn on itself in a desperate attempt to find killmails in a stagnent universe.

Luckily, it'll never come to that because people will notice the lack of targets long before an alliance gets that big.

Crap who stole my pony???
And who the heck stole my cake????

*Republic Fleet EMP loading...*

You are assuming an alliance could get that big and remain that big without some sort of inner turmoil or conflict that would break them apart.

Whether it be spies, sabotage, disagreements, jockeying for power, inner politics, greed....something will happen to corporations that get that big. It's just a percentage chance. The more thousands of people you add, the more likely something will break.

Only in 1 situation would they "intervene" and not in a way you might think.

When null gets bored, they head off to other space to mess with those not interested in SOV games -- when they start trashing how others play this game outside of SOV lands, CCP starts looking at "adjustments" to prevent this.

I seriously doubt they'd step in to "fix it" in nullsec.

iirc - on the China server, the largest trade hub in the game is in nullsec. They have treaties in place to enable trade-hub activities to function there and they arrange "major battles" among the various groups holding space there.

It's old-style war with some formalities and such that their community agrees to and enforces.

As such, if SOV lands setup rules and such for their control, CCP probably wouldn't do anything.