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Evelgrivion
Ignatium.
Aggressive Dissonance
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Posted - 2009.11.07 00:16:00 -
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Edited by: Evelgrivion on 07/11/2009 00:17:14
The basis for the daily cost is nothing short of insane. To start with, the raw fuel costs of a large tower are half of what you are estimating; it costs at most 2 million ISK a day to run a large tower.
Almost every alliance cuts this down even more by using as many faction large towers as they can, and that number is further reduced by actually having sovereignty. At most, a system should cost us 10 million ISK per day, if not less.
At this rate, the rule of thumb is going to be "Don't take up space that you can't 'work like a prostitute'." I'm pretty sure this is opposite of the intended effect, and a second look at those numbers would not go amiss.
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Evelgrivion
Ignatium.
Aggressive Dissonance
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Posted - 2009.11.07 00:45:00 -
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Extra quantities of crap material will never convince people to go there when they would not before. Upgrades need to improve the quality of raw materials and encounter sites, not just the quantity of them.
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Evelgrivion
Ignatium.
Aggressive Dissonance
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Posted - 2009.11.07 01:24:00 -
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The Issues Faced with the Current Implementation of the Dominion Sovereignty System
1. New, fixed costs are introduced that are not offset by a resource they gather, which raises the barrier to entry of any solar system by a fixed cost.
2. Solar system improvements increase the quantity of existing types of spawns. Systems that spawn "worthless goods" relative to level 4 missions will remain worthless, because the amount of money you can make per hour will not change.
3. Big alliances have the material harvesting backbone to keep what they have if they optimize their networks a bit. Outlying systems will become more vulnerable, but a well set up jump bridge network will do what it does today.
4. Smaller alliances will still have a hard time establishing a foothold because the status quo for income remains intact, minus the absurdly high cost of owning any solar system whatsoever.
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