Karlemgne
Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.10.03 19:39:00 -
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Edited by: Karlemgne on 03/10/2009 19:45:37
Edited by: Karlemgne on 03/10/2009 19:39:11
Spoken like someone who has an substantial material interest in preserving the current resource allocation arrangement + sov system in game.
Having something to fight over is all well and good, but the current arrangement of eve resources linked with the sovereignty system does anything BUT encourage fights. Mostly it solidifies power in the hands of the few large alliances and alliance blocs that exist while preventing smaller entities from participating in the 0.0 alliance game at all.
The isk factory moon gold stacks the economic advantage hugely in favor of the established entities. Who can "fight" you over your space when you can field 40 Titans and have wave after wave of throw away cap fleets? What is more, the sov system stacks the odds so heavily in the favor of the "defender" the only way to really defeat one of these large alliances is to get lucky enough to get someone in a holding corp to "disband" an alliance.
If the great war has told us anything, it is this. In the current system, a rich alliance can half-assedly defend its space against 5x its number--when its opponents are composed of the other super RICH alliances--unless some lucky underhanded thing destroys sov.
So to me, when I see this thread complaining about there being nothing to "fight over" with the new changes a few things come to mind.
First and foremost not a lot of fighting over the resources as they are allocated now is taking place anyway.
Second, when entities like the Goons complain that they want things the same to give something for people to fight over, I have to laugh... the advantage is so stacked in their favor at this point you might as well make an analogy to real life here.
What you are essentially arguing for is that the system be maintained, because, you know its like RL. There are hundreds of countries in the world and they are all in a position to fight the United States (or the West in general) over the earth's limited resources. ****... Florida is in danger of a Haitian invasion for just such a reason....  
In the final analysis this is a game, not an empire sim for a couple big alliances. Anything that balances the game in such a way as it gives the little guy, the medium sized guy, or the new guy a shot at entering and participating in the 0.0 facet of the game--even though I would NEVER participate in it--is a good thing.
CCP, luckily, are professional game makers who've identified a balance issue and are trying to correct it. So good on them.
And Goon tears taste the sweetest of all. 
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