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Posted - 2011.01.20 20:07:00 -
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 Originally by: Ephemeron
Dunno about you, but I find that very boring. And that's what PvP is becoming - just lots of waiting and mega blob fighting.
Becoming? PvP in EVE has always been waiting, and boring. Then a few moments of terror. It seems that you are attacking alliances which are organized and co-ordinated. That will be difficult with a small force.
*now I attempt to be constructive*
If blob warfare is the "problem" and there needs to be more "skirmish" warfare, then game mechanics can usually be blamed. I personally enjoy blob warfare, but not shooting stuff to claim or protect sovereignty.
Whatever :ccp: decides to do, I think they are on the correct path just moving slooww. Make every system deeper and more interesting with Planetary Interaction, multiple stations, tons of wormholes and scannable stuff. Make it so that PI, mining, and manufacturing can provide the necessary materials for self-sustaining corporations who never have to leave their constellation. The SOV mechanics absolutely require blobs to take and hold space. If you can't drive off 50 Capitals, you have very little chance to take and hold space in 0.0...
So if taking space requires blobs, those who form blobs hold space.
Sov mechanics need a sort of bottom-up path as well as blob-oriented. If you cannot take sov without "boots on the ground" it will become a fight, planet-by-planet that a reasonably well-funded corp of say 100 people could actually claim a region without attacking the TCUs, SBUs, etc after say 2 weeks if not driven back.
Increasing the depth of each system will prevent systems from being a notch in an alliances belt, forcing them to "skirmish" and pay constant attention to a system so it will become more difficult to hold a lot of space.
It seems like we are suffering the interim of planned software releases. With the incredibly smooth deployment of incursion 1.1 I guess CCP is sorta getting their quality under control. Maybe we will see walking-in-stations and dust 514 released soon, which I think will both change the nature of space.
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