Sturmwolke
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Posted - 2012.05.07 01:07:00 -
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CCP Soundwave wrote:
Comments?
Let me tell you the logistics of moving every few days across the empires, ESPECIALLY after that homogenization patch that distributes them almost evenly.
They used to mostly spawn in Amarr (due to empire size), now it's like clockwork - a regular incursioner will be slapped with a 30+ jump distance, at minimum once per week.
This means several things :
* using freighter alts to move their ships (BS & cruisers), going through the hassles of plastic wrapping them into freighters (why overcomplicate this?). This is the slowest mode of transport even when you're active piloting. In addition, there's the inherent risks of getting it ganked along the way if you cargo's very juicy.
* using Orcas (whether piloting directly or with alts), fastest mode of transport (thank god for the MWD trick). However, you can only cram 3 cruiser hulls, plus a travel frigate.
The incursioner's will be using cruisers exclusively for the incursion duration. He/she will have to make a double-trip or use another freighter alt to cart off the BS.
* some folks might be using Red Frog freight, but I've never seen or heard many of them using this service. May or may not be worthwhile long term.
* if someone's FCing, that means going through buying/mining and then carting off the Lyavite using Orcas (mostly). Some even includes their own personal OGBs. All of these requires a certain amount of handling - even if you assume afk travel.
* anyone who's an active industrialist/trader on the same char may have to tone down their activity or make several trips druing the course of the incursion back to wherever their home bases are to put several things in order. Stuffs to manufacture and move, stuffs to buy, stuffs to research yadda yadda.
*waiting for hours sometime to get into a fleet, idling away doing nothing. It's more common than you think, even at peak US/EU TZ.
So look at the above, and guess what it takes people to run incursion.
So far, what I've described are exclusively for high sec incursions - I'm sure there's a couple more things involved for the low/null sec counterparts.
For 50-70mil/hr, no thanks. I'd rather do something else with my time.
I have only to match that level of income with L4 or other activity (which isn't that difficult if you max-min) sans all the back-breaking logistics and hassles.
You only need to set it up ONE-TIME.
P.S The incursion newbies have it even worse (with T1 guns and T1 ships). Some of them can advertise for more than half-a day without getting into a fleet.
The whole incursion content is now firmly in the domain of well skilled pilots with shiny dps ships.
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