Rexthor Hammerfists
Rage of Inferno
Zenith Affinity
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Posted - 2009.11.07 04:29:00 -
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This Expansion had three promises that made me look forward to it.
Alliances holding less space, Sov being less of a pain in the ass and strongly encouraging "Carebearing" as an alliance income instead of passive ressources.
So far i cant see any of these points being done.
Alliances may have sov in less systems, but much like before poses were introduced, alliances will still control regions easily. Not having sov in a system isnt going to stop me curbstomping a newcommer alliances that has setup shop in a remote corner 2 regions away from the 10 systems i have sov in, because i move my caps there which takes me 15minutes and bridge 200 subcaps there as well while im at it.
Point is, while sov is made more expensive, empty space is still as unaccessible as it has been before and it is still as easy to control vast space for single alliances.
Part of that is because much of the "sov" system in dominion depends on Structure Hp rather then timers. Ie. numbers are still king and a 100 man dread fleet can clear a region in one hour while a 5man dread fleet would grows beards instead. The 100men dreadfleets number benefit should simply be that it can wipe out smaller fleets, but not take sov faster then those - This would enable smaller alliances to wage war against similar sized alliances without exposing dreadfleets long enough for half of eve to come by, but also take bites out of bigger alliances, should those not be there.
Last part is the alliance and alliance member isk making - the current moon mining is skewed and as you outlined, alliances only needing moons and nothing else as isk source makes most industrial players a liability in 0.0
Bummer that the solutions brought up so far arent doing a thing to change this, moon income is still going to be number 1 if sisi stays the same. The system upgrades will nowhere near support the numbers suggested for making isk in one system, nor do i see any reason to bring more carebears into an alliance after dominion then before.
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Rexthor Hammerfists
Rage of Inferno
Zenith Affinity
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Posted - 2009.11.07 14:37:00 -
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Edited by: Rexthor Hammerfists on 07/11/2009 14:37:40
Brave of you to step into the ring soundwave, for what its worth the problem i see with this expansion is that of the announced big changes, such as that alliances can and want to hold less space, that much of an alliance income would be generated by industrial player instead of moons and that many of the currently empty and useless 0.0 areas could be home for smaller alliances living in small pockets - none i can see happening.
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