Trebor Daehdoow
Gallente
Sane Industries Inc.
Novus Auctorita
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Posted - 2009.09.16 17:44:00 -
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Groupings of "alt alliances" fall somewhere between regular alliances and coalitions in terms of stability (and by reducing the number of people in alliance chat to a more manageable number, likely actually increase social utility), so even if alliances attempt to circumvent soft limits by fragmenting themselves, they're decreasing their stability and to some degree at least increasing the number of political entities present in nullsec, both of which lead to more conflict and more interesting emergent behavior.
Just pointing out what should be obvious -- if the "alt alliance group" has a strong out-of-game identity, they will not suffer as much from this issue.
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I really enjoyed 0.0 gameplay MUCH more than empire, but after being slapped down so many times without ever coming close to mounting the type of defense needed against 'big-mean-super power alliance', well empire just became the happeir place to be.
Hopefully, the way things should work is that both improvements to systems and defense of those system should scale using a power function (just like skills, there's a big difference between training from III to IV and IV to V). So the more you improve your system, the more it costs you to improve it further, and the smaller your "empire" is, the harder it is for it to be taken away from you (ie: your enemy needs greater numerical superiority). This would tend to make alliances smaller and more cohesive -- but it tends to promote "alt alliances". The devil is indeed in the details, but this kind of scaling tends to be self-limiting and is amenable to tweakage.
WRT the resources issue, it would be nice if alliances could only exploit resources (cough, cough, high end moons, cough cough) in systems that they have significant residence in. None of this "deathstar pos at npc 0.0 high-ends with an alt maintaining it, touch it and we'll hotdrop a zillion caps on your ass" stuff. But about the only way to do it is to take POS's out of the moon mining business and make it a ship-based activity.
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