I think u mean SoundWaffe, but could be my tinfoil trolling me

also not surprising that "rank and file" want some access to tech for themselves.

i'd guess that there isnt a good way to split "1,000,000,000,000" isk a month between 10,05? alts after the top dogs take their cut and the reimbursement payouts/fueling cost / hulkogeddon are deduct, whats left? 20m each a month... peanust

Cruise Missile Specialization to II

wait so did mittani seduce CCP into implementing Inferno 1.0 like Grumpy Owly says or did he seduce them into rolling it back like OP says

I'm merely subjectively stating how The Mittani promoted his influence in response to a comment.

When you have been playing for 7 years you might also know that even back in 2010, there were over 300 thousand unique subscribers operating in excess of 700 thousand characters. So before you blindly quote numbers at people, make sure they aren't ones pulled from a bodily orifice.

Source: CCP Quarterly Economic Newsletter 2010 roll down to page 8, heading "Demographics" for the actual numbers.

You're welcome. DevSwarm wins you the game.

How many times are you going to move the goal post?

make up your own minds - let me "guide" you to the conclusion I want you to believe

I've linked a podcast where two step specifically cites how unfair he believes it is on the large 0.0 alliances that hisec raider corps can gang up on them in Inferno 1.0.

And winning a war against you guys puts the icing on the cake.

Guys, before this goes on any further, kindly take off the hats and get real - we do not develop with one corp or alliance in mind...

Regarding the war dec system changes being some goonswarm conspiracy - all of these changes were decided (and most implemented) long before this particular goonswarm war even started. Do you really think we add new stuff a few days before a release just because of one war?

Regarding defenders now being defenseless, etc. This change will make it a little bit more difficult to defend, but what we have to do is strike a balance between defender options and incentives to declare war. We can give defenders all kinds of shiny new tools to defend themselves, but if they result in nobody declaring war anymore, then why bother? Yes, we want the system as a whole to have more consequences, but that cuts both ways.

Further of course, MANY players disagreed with what Soniclover writes in your quote - and its quite apparent that the system as a whole as updated for 1.1 is not "cutting both ways" but simply making it easier for 0.0 alliances to wardec who they please while removing the consequences of that decision in defensive ally formations.

Most notably - nobody from a hisec wardec corp has posted on your side of the argument.

The "merc tailored" option Soundwave referenced that I pushed for was a cap on allies (2-3 would have been nice) but you would not have any cost for taking them. If you wanted to hire a merc, you could at whatever price you negotiated. If you wanted to bring friends in, you could do it for free. If you wanted to accept free help from strangers (or strangers that buy in to your war dec) you could do that too, or any combination of the three. I feel this would have restored the merc market (the real one, not the Inferno mechanic) close to where it was before Inferno while not further unleveling the playing field between the big guys and the little guys.

Well leaving aside the deceiful argumentation - forgetting "in this thread" - the reality is that Karrde is not on your side of the argument - he's on his own if anything. He opposed the 1.1 changes as he makes clear on the Crossing Zebra's podcast I linked you earlier where he expresses his great dissatisfaction with the team BFF developers on the issue.

You really are not very good at this.

My argument is that he doesn't support the 1.1 change and nor does anyone else much outside the CFC.