lasterax
Minmatar
Libertas Fidelitas Holdings
Libertas Fidelitas
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Posted - 2009.11.07 10:06:00 -
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This comes down to simple economics -- are the benefits of sov worth the capital outlay? Clearly with these kind of prices and little in the way of profit from the benefits it is not.
As others have said the goal of this change was to stop AFK empires and allow smaller entities to get into 0.0. While the former is probably being achieved the latter isn't limited to not being met, it's being hindered. Not many small alliances would be able to pay such a price even if they wanted to.
In fact, this only encourages current abuses of the system such as ratting bots. Get sov in a system, turn loose a gang of ratting bots and meet your activity goals and farm ISK at the same time. The legitimate player is not going to benefit from that.
Either the price of admission needs to be changed or the benefits need to be increased. Suggestions earlier about lowering true sec status, increasing spawn rates, etc would have such a benefit if tweaked right.
However, any way you slice it these changes destroy NRDS and Providence. Putting in place a system of upgrades where one entity pays for them yet any entity can benefit from them sets up a system where outsiders will not be welcome or it's simply pouring more ISK down the drain for those paying for the upgrades.
While it certainly will have a massive impact on we Providence Holders such a loss would hurt the null sec community in general. Providence is a place where new players to null sec are welcome to learn the ropes and experienced players know they will get a fight. I think the recent hacking incident proved that with all those who rose up to condemn the act. However, this expansion will have the same effect -- it will make an NRDS environment like Providence untenable and, as the butterfly video suggests, would have reverberations that would echo throughout all of null sec.
CCP, do some modeling, get some input from your null sec alliances and reconsider if your changes are achieving your goals.
lasterax
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Libertas Fidelitas
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