Arazel Chainfire
Sons Of 0din
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.06.07 04:37:00 -
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FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:I've recently been looking back at the killboards of SKNK's incursion griefing victims. With roughly 250 kills it's too tedious to put together real numbers, but I have seen one remarkable trend...
I'd estimate that maybe 100 of our former targets had a history in nullsec or w-space prior to our encounter in a highsec incursion. Following their loss to our gank fleet...nothing, until the past month. A remarkable number of those characters have resumed activities in dangerous space and reentered the realm of PVP...apparently because of the incursion nerf. When the isk faucet was slowed down, they went back to doing what they did before.
This tells me two things. First, the incursioners were lying when they said "it's about the community!" Obviously not. The community didn't get nerfed and the payout is still decent. It's just not the crazy-high rewards of six months ago. No, it's become quite plain that it was never about community. It was about isk. And second, incursions were indeed drawing players away from other environments. Couple that with what we've learned about the priority of most of the people running incursions, and you realize that incursions were indeed bad for Eve. They drew people out of corporations and alliances solely to tap the isk faucet.
The incursion nerf has simply restored things to their previous state. I'm in favor of it staying just as it is. Let those who actually value the community continue running incursions. Let those who want an isk faucet chase it in place that provide risk along with the reward.
Personally, I wonder how many of those people who went back to WH space/nullsec etc. initially did the incursions for isk, or if they did them because they were new and different from what they were used to. When I started doing incursions, they weren't paying more than missions were (and were mostly being completed by drakes), but because they were new and different, I still went and did them.
Now yes, the isk was definately nice. But if you always get your isk in the same way all the time, you really begin to burn out doing that. Hence why I've done everything from missions to exploration to WH space, to nullsec anoms to incursions. And I'll probably cycle back through all of them again, and I still have mission ships sitting by my favorite agent, incursion ships waiting for me in jita in case I ever feel the urge to do that again, exploration ships scattered around space, and about half the stuff I would need to go back into WH's full time again. Its all a matter of changing it up from time to time.
-Arazel |