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If you didn't consider a functionally anonymous system within EVE that promoted no player interaction a problem then sure. This probably looks worse.

Can I have your blueprints?

I don't really get it... It just looks like confusion and complexity are being added for no reason.

Will there me multiple specialized teams per system or will players be forced to constantly move around?

Everyone will be packed, very tightly, into my wormhole. Under those conditions, moving around isn't really going to be advisible.

It's interesting how everyone buys into the fishy argument that nullsec will always dominate highsec in bidding wars because of greater isk.

Which system is going to have stronger bidding capability, a Nullsec system with one station, or a highsec system with 4-5 manufacturing stations that's flooded with risk averse industrialists?

The whole point of the teams is to cut costs - saying that nullsec will win all the good teams because they have more isk completely ignores the point of no return where the cost of winning the team outweighs the value.

Spread that break-even point cost out over 100 highsec industrialists and you have a better profit margin than you do if that same cost is bourne by 10-20 nullsec industrialists. The system with more intelligent, participating bidders should win over lesser populated ones.

The problem just lies in finding intelligent highsec industrialists to work with. I'm sure they exist... but highsec organization is notoriously low.

If I hear another of these silly "dumbing down the game" arguments I may scream. I think you're confusing needless complexity that doesn't advance gameplay/fun for 'actual skill and knowledge'.

You do remember that this is a video game that many people undertake for entertainment and relaxation, yes? Most people are doing production as a way to make in-game money to purchase ships and modules and not as some sort of exercise in supposed mental superiority.


P.S. I know this is Eve and acting like an arrogant ass and making smirking comments is de rigeur but how about we all stick to criticizing the offered ideas rather than attacking each other? Flaming/trolling doesn't make you look smarter or edgier, it just makes you look like another internet asshat.

If you win the auction, sure.

Yes, because we never interacted with other players when we bought the components they'd made or the minerals they'd mined or the blueprints they'd copied. No interaction at all. Now HUGE INTERACTION! We compete in an auction! Wow! (what's my crews' hand sign again?).

Not sure if I missed this, but does each region have a set number of teams, or does the entire universe compete for the same fixed number of teams? What's to stop monopolies forming on the better teams, or, just wealthy trolls from trying to disrupt the system?

e.g. wealthy wormhole alliance buys all the best teams (or all the teams for that matter) just to keep others from using them. I know that doesn't make sense from a business standpoint, but from a disruptive gameplay standpoint I can see this being called "creating content".

Well on the basis of what I can see so far on this thread we're going to lose out to null-sec. Because an awful lot of the industrialists are too risk averse to bid for a manufacturing discount - and god-forbid they should actually team-up.

Which is a real pity - because if 80% of the player-base, and all the rich industrialists are really based in high-sec we should've been able to kick-ass.