EVE General Discussion

5 Maelstroms > 50 Aeons?

So....small corps can't hit these things over the course of a few days and cause a lot of repping which puts out quite a few alliance members that own them?

Oh wait there are ways but it requires some work and politics and possibly some shooting and danger and wearwolves and viruses and.....

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Confirming that alts don't exist in EVE. Also confirming that you have to know someone's real name to hang out with them on the internet.

Why would you think a 2 man corp could compete? You say you love eve, but hate its freedom? If you're gonna be a 2man corp you gotta have the balls to make it. Hire mercs to keep ya safe, but don't ***** cause you can't take on a blizzard as a snowflake.

Cool. So it only takes multiple people with multiple accounts active round the clock to protect a poco.

For a one man corp I do say I have managed to compete against others in my business in my area, then again I as assuming they're just learning the ropes.

You are correct. It is obviously impossible to protect anything in EVE.

That's why thousands of player owned PCO's, POS's, and Outposts do not exist.

What they need is some mechanic in place so that you can choose the best time to defend a structure under attack... some kind of timer..... hmmmmm.

To be perfectly honest, while I do disagree with the OP, I think a small tweak to the POCOs is in order.

At the minute, POCOs can be set to come out of RF in a certain window (2 hrs), so a corp/alliance will set ALL their POCOs to come out in their peak time. This is fine, and it's much preferable to having to micromanage fuel levels etc. However, there's really no advantage to RFing all of a corp's POCOs, since unless you have the numbers to simultaneously hit them all at once when they come out of RF, it's very easy for the owners to defend them anyway. They recharge their shields quickly, so it's only a case of delaying the attackers long enough for them to recharge back up above 25% shields, because then they need RFed again.

The problem is not that large corps are able to have more POCOs, it's that they can only really be taken over if the owners either don't want them, or you're bigger than the owners. I think the best way to change this would be to make it so the POCO didn't need RFed again until its shields had fully recharged, or just reduce their recharge rate.

However, does the OP realise that POCO ownership is transferable, so perhaps he could work out some kind of renting deal with his bigger neighbours? They might be amenable to that, if they're actually in it for isk. They might just be interested in fights ;)

Well, according to the OP a piddly 90 man corp is taking over huge numbers of planets in Low Sec.

So much for your theory.