Asmodae
Caldari
The Hayabusa
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Posted - 2010.11.11 18:05:00 -
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I was excited, but I'm not anymore. Really I was excited about the new class of ships (motherships) but now that's been cleared up we're left with... Sleepers in k-space. There's no incursion. Just a new class of exploration sites to farm without needing a scanner.
Do the Sansha scan players out and warp in aggressive fleets? Do they farm belts/gravs for resources to build more ships? Do these ship building arrays exist? do they need defending from capsuleer attack? Do the fall back and regroup if it looks like they're losing? Do they destroy and loot the existing pirate presence in the system (anom sites)? Do the destroy/take over stations in the affected system? Once they've consumed the entire system do they expand and consume their neighbors?
Yes yes, I know just spawning in a few new sites and applying system effects is easier. It also sucks and the players don't buy it.
I think there is a huge opportunity here for CCP to push a spreading invasion like menace, something that is a proper threat to everyone and everything. Right now incursions can and will be safely ignored by everyone that doesn't normally operate in the affected system, and farmed by the group of players specializing in farming them. A proper Sansha incursion should strike fear into the entire eve universe and unite (or at least get them to consider it :P ) people that would normally just explode each other.
 Originally by: CCP Ytterbium
So be prepared: Incursions are full war assaults, treat them as such.
Sure they are. CCP seems to have a very interesting and 'Hello Kitty' definition of war. I'm uninspired and unimpressed. A lot work goes into new AI, a lot into the ships, the story, the rewards.. but in the end it's all scripted and will end up on the eve survival guide. Which means it is just another mission type sitting there waiting for players to come finish it so it can re-spawn somewhere else.
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Asmodae
Caldari
The Hayabusa
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Posted - 2010.11.11 19:33:00 -
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Originally by: Asmodae
Do the Sansha scan players out and warp in aggressive fleets? Do they farm belts/gravs for resources to build more ships? Do these ship building arrays exist? do they need defending from capsuleer attack? Do the fall back and regroup if it looks like they're losing? Do they destroy and loot the existing pirate presence in the system (anom sites)? Do the destroy/take over stations in the affected system? Once they've consumed the entire system do they expand and consume their neighbors?
I would like to add:
Do they send roaming parties out into neighboring systems to break up gate camps, mining ops, missioning ops, PVP fights (can you imagine the PVP'ers expressions when they are suddenly surrounded by hostile Sansha? of course alert fleets wouldn't be surprised because they would see the gate activations and the ships on d-scan). Can they covert cyno'ing on top of player fleets? Send out cloaked scouts to spot weak points in defensive positions? Invade WH-systems (and then fly the recovered T3 ships!!!)? Attack and reinforce POS's? Attack station services? Camp gates in hardcore traffic areas just outside of the incursion zone to break supply lines? Use interdictors? Deploy mobile warp disrupters (in space that allows it)?
yeah? no?
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