My EVE

Its hard for me to say this i have found myself agreeing with mittans not once but twice this week.......

first his idea for a gated area for new players and now his supercap benchmark (for the most part at least)

problem is if you get rid of ALL supers eve inherently reverts back to N+1 the side with the most pilots are likely going to win in the long run yes smaller groups might get the odd win but there not gonna win the war.

instead of it being who has the most supers in will be who can field the most carriers/ dreads. granted its a lot easier to get a carrier than a supercarrier, both in terms of building/buying it and affording it. But will it change null sec? no dont be silly both N3/pl and the cfc can field full fleets of carriers with ease.

the problem is where it always have been in the way sov works to begin with. sov needs a complete rework for anything to change.

N+1 shouldn't be the be all and end all, yes it should help but it shouldn't give you a automatic victory like it currently does.

after all whats the point even turning up to a fight if your out numbered 5-1 may as well just give me your isk and self destruct ya pod i will give your 70% back and say heres your insurance and save you the time of flying there just to die in the first place

That's two articles that Mittens has written in his traffic control blog that I totally agree with.

I feel unusual.

i no right kinda like u need a shower but u just cant seam to get clean

You say that like he's never had a good idea about the direction of EVE. Go back and read some of his commentary on EVE around about the time of the Incarna debacle.

I think even pigeons knew how to constructively criticize Incarna.

Don't bother to long with stuff other people write about how they see eve o in this case mittens typical whining about other people having more big toys as him. Because his conclusions are wrong and despite his claims he doesn't want a better eve for everyone but only a better eve for gsf.

Even if ccp would remove all supers and titans today it wouldn't change anything for anybody outside of the established powerblocs. A thrid party still wouldn't have a chance to take sov from either goons or N3PL. The only thing that would probably change is the balance of power between both blocs in favor for the cfc.

It's that way right now anyway. The only difference is that this one has a price tag and opportunity cost that guarantees that no small group can hack it.



The major force multiplier can either be numbers or pricetag, take your pick. Personally I think numbers is far better than pricetag. Supers turn it into both numbers and pricetag, have both or don't even bother.

And don't make me laugh by offering "skill" up instead. This isn't a flight sim, this is Civilization with real people. With TiDi the game may as well be turn based.

You've added a couple of other examples after I posted this and they are all valid

How was the Tech nerf only beneficial to GSF? I mean, apart from us booting you bads out of fountain of course.

But the OP does have ONE point, and thats that right now, if the "endgame" for a group fo people is owning SOV, they have no way to do it without bending over and swearing fealty to someone who has "already done it". THey cant be new players, or truly fight and take what they want, because the doctrones and meta that drives nullsec is centered around massive coalitions capable of crushing ANY independent threat. Short of convincing every highsec missioner/bear to get into a pvp ship and head to null, no group could oppose either of the current coalitions on their own, and even with the numbers, they wouldnt have the supercapital advantage, an advantage they CANNOT gain because, and as evident by PL's exploits lately, any group attempting to build/buy a super without "nullsec approval" soon finds their investments in a fire.