Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2009.05.26 18:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Herzog Wolfhammer
The "power bloc" thing would not spread to a second server IF and only IF it were a "no-clone" server.
Getting killed, when you are in a larg corp with clone vats, fitted ships lined up, etc, is not as expensive as some people like to take pride in. Often the gankers and griefers have everything to gain with little or nothing to lose. The victims have everything to lose except a long ride back to the vat.
You wanna put the money where the mouth is, a no-clone server is where you can swing your big brass pairs around and actually have a right to talk smack about how "tough" the game is.
If you have a corp that wants to use force to get what it wants, and lets say a third of them die in that philosophy, that's one third less force in that corp and thus less of them means less power. To maintain a KOS policy for power, griefing, etc, means a chance you lose people everyday and lose as in "they get popped, they are back next day in a noob ship.
I would invite all those who master only the game mechanics to petition for, and join, a no-clone server and prove how leet they are. Then and only then will you see space be as expansive as it should be, and EVE will stop looking like a sci-fi version of Guild Wars where the only way to survive is to be in a powerful group from the start.
How exactly would that help? Those who survive the initial chaos would form powerblocks, that would be high impossible to remove. They would have SP, ship and numbers advantage over any newcomers. It is also likely, that they would take precautions to protect that advantage. Huge blobs of ships wiping all competition from existance and non-aggression pacts between all major powerblocks. The number of fair fights would be limited to the idiots who don't know or care what happens when they get podded. Everyone else would take massive precautions against pod loss or spend most of their game time training to fly T1 frigates again and again.
Only way to survive would be to join a powerful group from the start or stay in highsec forever. Even then people would propably try to pod random players for lolz, so solo players or carebears don't need to apply. It might be interesting, especially in the initial stages, but it would not solve the issues you seem to have with EVE.
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