Originally by: Destrim

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Edited by: Destrim on 08/11/2009 01:53:27
Re-posting, because no one said anything :(

Well, personally, I think the heavy tax and necessity to use the systems does an excellent job at condensing empires, and opening 0.0 up to much more people. THAT I have no problem with... even the heavy tax.

What I DO have a problem with is this: the industrial/military upgrades are weaksauce. I say this because the upgrades, which are supposed to apply to an alliance's/corp's infrastructure, are not, in fact, doing much to help them achieve such ends.

In other words, you have succeeded in using punishment ("pain aversion") to reign-in the ballooning miss-usage of 0.0 space (which works perfectly), but you haven't created any rewards as incentive for holding only a few systems. Penalizing works, but it only goes so far: you have to make it much more worth while to dig-in and hold the few systems they put so much time into improving. So, the improvements must be worthwhile.

For me, I consider it the equivalent of creating an actual ****ing HOME in EVE. Not just some space you hold, so you can wave your e-peen, but somewhere that actually means something to you.

This is what I propose:

Industry upgrades: Something which...

• Decreases build costs by x% per sov level


• Decreases build times by x% per sov level


• Decreases reaction times by x% per sov level


• Increases moon stuff mined per unit of time by x% per sov level


• Increases refine rate (going beyond 100%, so you actually get MORE from refining) by x% per sov level


• Retain the "hidden belts per sov level" idea


• Increase mining amount/speed by x% per sov level

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