EVE General Discussion

and if da man stupid enough not to flip the switch. bad luck.

but it'd be funny if Mr. Test Oracle tried and somebody had flipped the switch.

Dead Test Best Test.

And whos to say the 5 man corp isnt theyer main corp and the 200 man 0.0 corp they have 0.0 alt in isnt just for lulz

So you asume any proof of this statment or is it just a gues?


I know many who do i used to myself now i stay losec 0.0 is so 2006

That's what I'm talking about.

All hail swith flipper alts everywhere. Sure, that adds so much to the game.
Also it's worth noting that "sitting there for making profits" argument should be taken with consideration. Actuvely playing production minigames with internet spaceships is fine, but there's no point in sitting there doing nothing just to be able to pull switch in time. If there's no minigames and spaceships involved, then there are 2 solutions: either automate it (production queues, skill traning) or remake them into active endevaours (mysterious Ring Mining idea? on-grid gameplay for boosting characters?). Your suggestion of sitting on switch would be bad even if it was solving anything - it's videogame we are talking about, not porter simulation ffs.

Also your argument revolves around the fact that one man alone should be able to flip a bird to conglomeration of hundreds of people (even if "going down in a blaze of glory") and somehow you see that as being more "fair" than vica versa. I won't even comment on that. Apparently, the guy sitting in siege battleship or dreadnought among his peers is a mook and another guy who happen to sit on guns of his POS forever alone is friggin' hero? Derp, mass culture these days. Though as it comes from a guy who kicked many people out of lowsec alliance because that single guy didn't want to allow them to stay this way despite having success with this just because *he* want to go to null... It all suddenly makes sense.

Also you don't even consider what repercussions your defence buffing changes will have on wars between two even factions, when one can't push over another because of fortifications they all have. All warfare over static assets will devolve into two types: when large guy still overpowers small one and the "clash" between even parties that will turn into metagaming fest of getting within reach of another alliances' bad@$$ mode switches. Just cancerous.

Such fortification possibility will make people who have acces to space (being factual owners, regardless of lack or presence of sov mech) will fortify it with POSes and you may say bye-bye to all hopes of new people getting there without making deals with owners (the thing you are looking for, apparently). Think of it, if it should hurt 50 people (who already made great effort of estabilishing relationships with each other as opposed to throwing tantrums when their personal wishes should go away for the sake of common benefit) to bash a single guy who managed to set up a POS, how much it will hurt single guy to do the same against placeholder POSes (with no production capabilities, just with switch-pumped defenses) of an alliance with dozens of people eager to shoot him in the process.

You're not solving stated problem here, your idea only will make it worse, that's why people here don't buy your "your ideas are nice, but here's also mine" polemics.

On a related note, I see a lot of posts all over GD about how forever alone guys should be able to compete with "blobs", "big guys", whatever. Diminishing boosters for larger fleets, grid limitations for blues, all those things are suggested over and over again. Like, you know, "sanbox means that it's even playground for everyone" (forgetting about "all within the scale" part) and thus blob shouldn't choke my freedoms. Hell yeah. Those people apparently can't see hundreds of unique persons with their stories, agendas, plans and feelings, no worse than themselves, behind those squares in the blob. Who, you know, wonder too why the heck that lone square should make huge impact on their freedom.

That's why I meantioned mass culture above. People should really stop praising loners who turn against people, reasons and common sense. It's not hard to say "I" while staning in dramatic pose. But nooo, let's make it look like something unusual. And meanwhile it really hurts cultures where self-entitlement becomes prominent. And makes pearls like this thread happen as a consequence.