Princess Jodi
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2010.03.16 16:07:00 -
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As a null-sec dweller, I doubt insurance changes will have any effect on 0.0 pvp. First off, the only T1 ships accepted in fleets are battleships and capitals. BS losses are basically just module losses now, and are projected to be the same after this nerf. Capitals lose more due to Fighters and uber mods. Many alliances cover the replacement cost of these ships when used in fleet battles.
T2 ships are the remainder of null-sec ships. It sounds like T2 insurance will actually go UP. At present, I don't even insure T2 ships.
The need to protect your 0.0 space overrides any cost in doing so.
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Princess Jodi
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2010.03.16 17:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Motseth
Originally by: Princess Jodi
As a null-sec dweller, I doubt insurance changes will have any effect on 0.0 pvp. First off, the only T1 ships accepted in fleets are battleships and capitals. BS losses are basically just module losses now, and are projected to be the same after this nerf. Capitals lose more due to Fighters and uber mods. Many alliances cover the replacement cost of these ships when used in fleet battles.
T2 ships are the remainder of null-sec ships. It sounds like T2 insurance will actually go UP. At present, I don't even insure T2 ships.
The need to protect your 0.0 space overrides any cost in doing so.
Yes, I agree with that, but check it from this perspective:
Each time an alliance loses 100 battleships in a fight, with insurance you lose what, 30m in modules per battleship? so 3 billion total? without insurance you lose 100m or more per battleship I guess, so you now lose 10 billion plus, this hurts, in a LONG war an alliance would lose a few thousands battleships, so we are talking about losing hundreds of billions just in battleship fleets. So quickly FCs and alliance managers would try to field t1 cruisers and battlecruisers and improve their tactics to win battles instead of big bulky expensive hard hitting fleets.
I guess that in some months of battleship fleet fights, alliances would start to see how bad the hit to their wallet is and soon all alliances would start to use more smaller ships and of course more tactics. I think EVE blob warfare would hit the golden age. But Im just a pet so I probably dont know anything (I mean that)
I don't think that will happen. Bob taught us early on that one uber-fitted ship was worth many junk fit ones. Regardless of the cost, you won't see Razor flying T1 cruisers anytime soon.
Also, alliances already use all the available pilots in their fleets. We won't magically get more people in fleets just cuz we're flying T1 cruisers.
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