Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP will never allow any thing that will hurt the big coalitions.

Having each one use a different kind of isotope is already a balancing factor. As sovereignty and residential statistics change over time, so, too, do the fuel prices. One race's fuel may be cheapest one day, but eventually the cheapest will be a different fuel.

But I'd also like to see JFs have fuel cost based on the mass of the ship plus the mass of goods they are carrying. That would make lighter loads cost less to haul. When you're hauling less, the Minmatar Jump Freighter becomes a naturally more attractive option.

Jacid, I think the right direction to move in is making Titans into corporation assets. Then people will stop whining about titans taking over a character and not being worth anything to that character. After all, it is corporations and alliances that use them, not individuals (unless you're Chribba and mine with them).

Once titans are corporation assets, all other sweeping changes to nerf them don't cause so much pain to their owners, unless they are trying to maintain them as personal assets, which they can do if they want but that shouldn't be a primary aspect of the things.

Thank you
More support!

I'm liki this too

Makes sense on a lot of levels and seems fairly simple to implement once the balancing math is done.

+1

Not much, as they still burn the same amount of fuel to travel 1 LY.

... and now carrier burns the same amount of fuel like a mothership or a titan.

+1 for enhanced realism

time = money refers to a waste of time costing money as money-making ventures could have been furthered in that time. With no significant extra time expenditure in the movement of capital ships with a shorter jump range, little extra money is spent moving them. It's the same amount of fuel and a negligible amount of time. The people labor is still the vast majority of resources required for the effort and large nullsec blocs have an excess of people labor they aren't using such that these movements are essentially cost-free to them. This is not true of smaller groups.

So you're right, and you help to reinforce my point.



I am quite certain that CCP is not favoring any large groups in EVE for any reason other than the sheer number of pilots that can benefit from a change. The large coalitions do well with every change because they are quick to adapt and have the experience and resources to take advantage of every change. It has nothing to do with CCP favoring any group and it has everything to do with the expert capsuleers at the fringes of civilization.

In fact this huge ability for Nullsec blocs to adapt has actually resulted in the opposite: CCP aiming to boost the options available to smaller groups so that they stand a chance.