Originally by: Lord Takani

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Originally by: Darknesss

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Personally I think there are far too many valuable resources in the game. At the moment there is so much money floating around the largest most expensive ships are throw away toys to most alliances - the only real damage losing a titan does is possibly to morale, but thats where the pain ends, and even morale isn't that damaged by a titan loss anymore.

People used to have an incentive to fight because there simply weren't enough resources for everyone to make really good money. Thats all changed now, massive coalitions can split up the resources between dozens of alliances and still make massive profits from moons which require little to no effort to run.

There was a time alliances would go bankrupt in wars, and ops and effort had to be put into replacing ships (remember those mass alliance mining ops stripping belts not because you enjoyed mining but because they were the only way to afford battleships). It used to be crokite belts were the resource to have, difference is there were alot less crokite belts than there are valuable moons now, and big wars were fought over the systems with crokite in, also mining crokite actually required some large scale effort. Moons dont.

With all of this easy isk people are quite content and comfortable to go along with the coalition status quo. Put yourself in any one of the coalition alliances position... would you reset them and stir things up a bit? Reality is even if the majority of the player base wanted to reset eachother and have a big old slug fest they wouldn't because all of them assume (rightly so) that the others would simply gang up on them, kick them out and either give the resources to someone new or take the resources themselves.

Alliances should be put under pressure to exist, it shouldn't be so damned easy. It should cost money and money should be tight. There should be far fewer valuable resources and making money should be something that requires group effort. You may think these changes cant be made now, and you wouldn't see the effects for a long time because of the isk thats already in the market, but eventually alliances wallets would start getting drained, would start to look low and the pressure would be on to replenish the wallet. Naturally when you take away comfort and money fights happen, and anyone from the days when isk was tight will remember it was damned fun, PvP got the adrenaline going not just because it was fun but because it was not easy thing replacing a ship.

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Amen! In the old days eve was more fun, and much more exciting.

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