EVE General Discussion

yup,
its one of those threads thats just always been there,
for as long as ive been reading the forums that thread has been on the front page,
op changes,
so do the antagonists but its always the same thread.

and welcome back btw, good to see some of the old guard

As a noob with a lot of money and starting my own alliance, these are my opinions:

Who is Goonswarm?

NC is best left alone.

PL...pl....I think I've heard of them before.

The days of supercapitals and dreads mattering seem to be over. I am a 1y/o toon and I have a bunch of carriers and dreads that are just collecting dust in Ignoitton. In fact I was not even here when WWB started or when PL became a dominant power, and to me these big battles and big power blocks have little effect. I just want to mine, trade, and make ISK. Sooner or later these coalitions will fall and that means I am going to be sending my rent check to someone else. And in the off-chance that no one appears to take my money then I'll just take the stuff down and do it myself.

honestly I feel like we are to a point in EVE where the biggest alliances aren't even alliances, rather rental companies who couldn't muster a formidable sub-cap fleet to save their lives.

CCP tried to shake null up a bit by increasing jump range for caps and thusly increasing power-projection capabilities for large alliances. The only problem is there is nowhere left to project power. You're either going to hit a brick wall of super-caps or low-sec.

IDK If this is what the actual situation is, but this is what it looks like to a noob like me.

Please, do educate me :)

Fair request.

Its free automatic intel on who is in a system, as to whether friend or foe. Rest can be ascertained through investigating killboards and character/corp history. Can even make some good guesses on what they might be flying atm or whether they might have alts and who they might be.

This is good for NS safety and stability.

Non-blue shows up. Everyone docks up. Instant safety whilst decisions/mobilisations are made on what kind of defense to stage.

I dont mean to say that local is some magic key that would topple Blocs.

I just used it as an example of how indirect changes can affect NS such that they chip away at some of the basis of Bloc stability, ergo, fragmenting it.

Without Local, Corps especially on the fringes of Blocs would be far more vulnerable to raids, especially in terms of relying on the Bloc to defend them. Makes the borders far more permeable and collapses the current intel chains, such that it would be possible for raids to penetrate deep into a Blocs territory before being detected.

TLDR: Local is a huge boon to NS safety, and hence stability. Removing it makes NS far more dangerous, ergo less stable.

Now that Rorqs can mine one one in a day expect this 'virulence' (see what I did there??? Eh, Eh???) to spread. Imagine Rancer titan gatecamps.