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Garandras
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Posted - 2014.05.19 02:44:00 -
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ATM that is where the meta lies.. only chance of another bloc war atm, is if HERO invades Provibloc, |
Garandras
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Posted - 2014.05.20 03:06:00 -
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Well until how sov works changes.. There will be N3/PL and CFC holding Null they are the player empires, they own pretty much it all and if you want to take advantage of the benefits of Null in a relatively safe environment you have to get permission from one or the other.
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Garandras
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Posted - 2014.05.20 03:52:00 -
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Tirabi wrote:so what exactly was it that change so much to fall into this sorta chaos?
I remember the days of all of 0.0 held by alliances and most owned the whole region, everyone was at war with one another and it was a nice place to pvp in.
No one can agree on what should change
but i do believe you are looking at this though rose colored glasses..
There has pretty much always been collations and renters, back in the start it was more based on your nationality.. then there was BoB, which lead to CFC being created then you had HBC, N3, Stainwagon.
But what has changed is the power level.. so all you have now is CFC on one side and N3/PL on the other, they both have massive strength and the ability to move vast capitol fleet across the galaxy in short order, their only competition is the other and neither want to make the first move as with the current mechanics it would be a overly long and drawn out process of no real gains being made.
If you look at the holloween war, it was a very slow start, N3's main tactic was to over power Stainwagon by putting 150 Arcons on the objective and Stainwagon didn't have the power to compete vs that.. so they Cyno jammed key systems. The CFC weighed in and things started to move back in Stainwagon/CFC favor.. the B-R happened was a massive victory, CFC then cut a deal which saw their assets safe and withdrew.
N3/PL then reformed and came back at Stainwagon hard, which quickly fell apart due to the onslaught and poor leadership decisions.
The only real thing at this stage which would break the current state of affairs is if you nerf capitol ships into the ground.. which is just a ******** idea in general |
Garandras
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Posted - 2014.05.21 00:36:00 -
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The article on TMC today put some reasoning behind the current situation..
and when you put in the BOTLORD which is the exact opposite of content creation.
Only the people who are living in NPC Null are the ones having fun without a massive blue list |
Garandras
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Posted - 2014.05.22 05:57:00 -
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There is no way to stop 'Renting'
As it is a player mechanic there is no real way around it. people that want to PvE in Null will pay PvP alliances for the right to not be shot at |
Garandras
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Posted - 2014.07.08 23:45:00 -
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Spurty wrote:Garandras wrote:There is no way to stop 'Renting'
As it is a player mechanic there is no real way around it. people that want to PvE in Null will pay PvP alliances for the right to not be shot at Of course there is. CCP remove ability to send funds directly between individuals and remove private contracts. How's that money going to get there? Also can make these large payments subject to scrutiny by the fraud department. Make those payments vanish into a black hole for two months. Many ways to stop it. Complete irradiacate it. CCP chose not to so ... DOTA 2 update looks nice. Also FTL was on steam sales. Addicting!
Wait so your solution.. is to make the game unplayable.. and because they wont you are going to play a different game o_0 |
Garandras
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Posted - 2014.10.01 05:09:58 -
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boliano wrote:They need to make it so holding space means u have to use it to keep it. Which is why all major sov alliances all agreed on this.
The don't 'Need' to
a % of the player base would like it that way as it makes sense to them.. and the base idea is fine. The hard part would actually be implementing such a change.
The biggest challenge is what happens to current Sov if they overhaul the current mechanic. When Dominion SOV came in there was a mad rush to put SBU/TCU/iHubs down, and that was in the 'old' days where we didn't have superpowers that could move mass fleets of supers all over the place in a instant. While I think some yay some fleet brawls, I also think I can see it getting very mess very quickly as the big boys take all.. then work on the minimum required to hold it with their renters. (Or just 'keep' the same ares of space even without their flag there.. just dunk whoever tries to claim it.. so holding the same space just with a cheaper sov bill)
Now for a technical thing.. This will be a lot of new coding for CCP, who knows they may of already been working on it for the last year.. but even if they are working on a occupancy sov system I wouldn't expect it out anytime soon |
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