EVE General Discussion

HED-GP raises a few questions. The Tranquility capabilities has improved but the battles are increasing %-wise more.

My opinion is that the problem lies not in the server capabilities or code but in the abundance of isk that provides the backbone of such hugh easy (super) capital use. ((super) capitals are a exponential factor to counter (HP/required & power wise)

It is a well know fact that corp/alliance have (super) capitals fundings and/or reimbursements and that the sov-system is based around structures that haves hitpoints. Thus the more recources availeble to threat or to use at these structures, the more power a corp/alliance has. (recources in numbers and/or recources for these numbers (the last attracts the first (comfort/ease))

But what if happens if an corp/alliance or coalition joint income is gradually or exponentialy becomming higher by degree of taking more space? The natural hunger for power, the "ungoing capital cold war" and just common sence translates this in gradually or exponentialy investments in (super) capitals. Which leads to the fact that some pieces of the pie has become too spacejewbig that there is no Yang anymore. This is what almost happend in HED-GP, if CFC backed out and this is the underlaying point what PL & co tried to prove.

Even worse, the above is exacly what will happen to any smaller corp/Alliance or coalition that interferes with the bigger pieces of the pie. A thrilling and dynamic 0.0 is going to be extinct without changes and Tranquility will become the bigger version of the Chinese server. Personaly, i am missing the old eve, the 2006-7-8 EVE. Personaly i find eve politic's 0.0 scene aperap*d in the bu* and it influences the 0.0 gameplay significantly downwards. Time dialation is a very good implenmentation but it does not work if the tap doesnt get fixed leaking into the almost overflowing bucket...

By my opinion got this development speed up by some game mechanics that were not good by desighn or not used as intended (the most common known ones: anomalies, technetium, increasing populairity rentlordship ect etc "jadii jadii jadii jaaa") and are still seeping in today's EVE by the "butterfly affect". The thin balance got unevened by negative interferance and i hope to see some positive interferance into EVE to make it right versus the playerbase.

It is a good thing that times have changed and there is being listend more to the playerbase but i think it is time to finaly adres this "red head stepchild" that are leading us to were we are now.

To my opinion, i rather see a fix for this sooner than later and i hope my opinion gives a good insight for fixing it.

My Two Cents,

Hey, can you keep the whining down? Some of us are trying to have fun in places that aren't null sec.

Posting in another stealth grrrN3PL thread.

What's the point of the * in aperape* exactly?

Don't know where you are getting that from, as a general rule the people that want to kill you at the moment think nullsec income is skewed in favor of "Living in empire but playing in null" which we don't particularly like.

The second argument is supercap/cap proliferation which was coming down the pipe no matter how costly you make them. Also anyone advocating the removal of my cargo Thanatos can get bent.

I break from the goon traditionalist goal in that I'd love to see more specialized caps added to the game. Some of my ideas are dumb like "The mega dictor that warp disrupts entire grids" and others are more interesting like the covert carrier for raiding back pockets of hard to reach sov with cloaky assholes (good reps, no triage, ability to jump to covert cynos, no fighters, big SMA/FHA, basically a flying mobile starbase for sneaky assholes).

Snorting "Anthrax" is bad mmkay

Well of course you can grind the ISK to pay for these hulls, however this takes "time". Moon Mining is a "passive" income which can yield massive profits (When in such a large alliance who own vast amounts of space).

If the mechanics of Moon Mining was changed it could also "potentially" limit the amounts of systems these large alliances currently hold. Just think 1 Month your system\constallation\region has decent Moons to mine from, the next month they are useless or not-so-profitable. It may also give the oppotunity for the smaller alliances/corps to actually consider getting a look into sov space without the prospect of being renter pets.

You do realize that moon mining isn't worth nearly as much as it used to be?
Pretty much nobody is using it to buy themselves caps. The real cash cow in nullsec is renter fees.

Putting up tower and reaction is probably way too much of a pain in the ass for any entity large or small to want to ever mess with depleting moons.

There is nothing wrong with strategic build up, so long as the forces are willing to use it, because only using it will get rid of it (and using it consumes minerals, which keeps the mineral market from being saturated). It is plain that both sides in the current conflict are willing to deploy.

If you want to live in null without worrying about the force required to hold sov, you have 3 options depending on the size of your group.

Rent.
Gypsy.
Live in NPC null.

Rent gives you perma respawning content and most entrants to your systems will be blue, gypsy lets you ignore sov boundaries in your quest for deadspace loot (and with all the renter and deployed entity spaces, its really not _that_ hard to find thinly held territory where you'll be ignored for periods of time), and living in NPC null is hard (and most people won't make as much isk), but there will alway be other small gangs about, and you don't have to pay anyone or be aligned with anyone.