EVE General Discussion

I was there when the VFK headshot took place; I've fought for these systems.

What needs to happen is power blocks not control space they deem 'worthless' and give the opportunity for non-blocks to take it. With mechanics like local and structure mails, this will never happen.

There's a difference between "deemed' worthless, and being worthless.

So tell me, how many systems did NC give away because they were empty and they wanted someone to put them to use?
Oh wait....

Grasp more.

Don't need to.

NC. has recently given some systems away so that they can be put to better use; moons as well. Everyone knows this.

What additional 'opportunity' is needed for non-bloc holders to take this unused, unclaimed, unoccupied space? Nobody is living in it, nobody is defending it. What's stopping them right now from putting up a cheap tower and mining and belt ratting to their heart's content exactly? A power bloc cramming a bunch of cloaky gankers into a non-bloc's tiny foothold without local doesn't help it either.

You're quite right here.

I once dropped a tower into some lowsec bloc space (yep, they do exist) and by using a rorq and JF was able to mine and rat for months before it got smashed.

The bit that irked me, they didn''t want the moon it was on and I only mined and ratted and kept a low profile. To stay, I was given the opportunity to pay 50m per char per month to blue up but you know, extortion bothers me so I told ém no.

I'll repeat that. Extortion bothers me. Unused space. I want to use. I gotta pay. Or die.

This ain't bitchin'. Just my view why it doesn't happen much.

And to be honest, this has sorta motivated my call for defensive towers that HURT POS killers. Only way little man even got a hope to go there.

IRC has space because no one wants that space but IRC. It's the same reason -A- is always able to slither back into cache a few months after people get tired of punching them.

Oh get out. POS defense is pathetic against all but solo/small fleet. You can max DS and it's still gonna go down and pretty easily.

What's the attack strategy. Start on the ewar and guns. POS gun targets you. Tell logi. Wait 2 or 3 minutes. POS guns switch. Keep shooting the whole time.

Rinse/repeat until all guns decapped.

Shoot tower.

Make the POS gun AI group up - target fast and 1 shot.
Or give POS gunners control on all guns. Whaddya I get, 5 if maxed skilled?

No matter what you do though, the attackers can just bring more DPS and logi, while you are still stuck with the limits of your 1 POS.

CCP did have some ideas about letting you anchor a POS elsewhere, and with other POSes near by. So maybe someday your small players could group POSes to counter growing POS shot fleets.


What was the deal with 50mil/character/month? That's not a bad deal to just be left alone, and if being blue extended any other opportunities or services it could have been the foot in the door to a better situation. If you just had 2 characters, the minimum to jump your stuff around, you could mine or rat up that kind of isk on 1 weekend afternoon and then been free to play around the rest of the month.

Really, it seems like most of your problems are of your own choice. Your corpmates who didn't want to rent, and then you blowing off a perfectly reasonable chance to get in as a renter. You want to play in an area famed for large fleets, but don't want to be in large fleets.

Really, why are you playing a massively multiplayer game when you seem to have trouble making, keeping, and working with friends? Why keep playing a game that is big on the sandbox and metagaming, and then get into a rut of strictly real time strategy thinking?