EVE General Discussion

Usually power blocs within nullsec don't last long enough to warrant a shift in power balances beyond null/lowsec that would influence highsec Empires. You have the buffer zone of lowsec in most areas and nullsec is just that pirate/nullsec-carebear infested no-mans-land that the Empires were too lazy to expand into and just leave it cut off by Concord.

Now, if the ClusterFuck Coalition manage to expand, let's say into Delve, but even just hold Fountain and their regions for long enough, maybe a year or two even, then I believe CCP should integrate that somehow into the lore. Empires uniting to fight the nullsec threat? A highsec dream for some (hey Harry Forever!) but highly improbable. I think we should just wait and see how things develop in nullsec. It is usually volatile enough that it balances itself out.

I have to ask will this war affect me the man in empire/high sec or anything else for that matter?
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Onto basics.

What was this war ultimately for?
Money ( ISK ).
Where does this money come from?
Moon mining and Planetary Interaction ( i STILL don't understand why everyone still thinks it's Moon mining alone, while PI makes WAY more isk and i do mean WAY more isk ).

The CFC getting their hands on Fountain and possibly adding new alliances to their roster means:
More PI from null on the high sec market, but not more moon materials, since they will only replace what someone else was already doing.

This of course is totally beside the fact that Odyssey changed the moons around a bit, so we might actually see a slight drop in price still.

The result:
Lower prices for PI materials, meaning high sec AND low sec PI will become even more useless ( low sec won't be totally useless though ).

Expect to see a steady increase in P2, P3 materials on the high sec trade hubs ( P4's not AS much, since you need most of those for building stuff in null anyway ).

Along with the changes in ore compositions ( which WILL cause more industry to happen in null, yet STILL not on a very high scale ), which will mean price drops on higher end ores and maybe rising prices on the lower end ores ( Mexallon is an issue in null as in like BIG TIME ).

Expect to see Hulkageddon come back sooner and perhaps more often.
Ganking high sec miners, means better isk potential for low/null sec miners.


As for Delve......
Well, pushing into Delve is certainly an option that is being considered ( i presume ), but it does come with its drawbacks.
More space to cover = less people to secure each individual solar system.
Not that we as the CFC will ever win a popularity contest but it will cause more "internet pixel hate" in the long run.
The CFC would have to start trusting more people, who in turn live in the space the CFC provided.
The more people you have to trust, the bigger the security risk.