Ravenfoe
Amarr
The Chaos Hegemony
The Lostboys
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Posted - 2011.04.01 16:10:00 -
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Edited by: Ravenfoe on 01/04/2011 16:16:16
As someone who led a small alliance that lived in nul-sec for a while I have to agree with what 99% of the people are saying here. With rental and sov bills to pay and a smaller player base, I relied solely on the Havens and Sanctums to support our alliance and get ahead. As our initial -0.23 system was the only one that we could afford in the beginning, the Sanctums were VITAL in allowing us to expand our operations in NUL. I can honestly say that without these sites present we would never have been able to have made the move into nul. From the little man's perspective, these changes will require that any alliance that wants to make the move to nul would have to already have a huge high-sec support system and a pre-made capital fleet before even thinking of nul as the "beginner" systems available for rent would preclude any income ability to attain these things in nul.
These changes won't make it easier for smaller alliances to get a foothold in nul-sec it makes it almost impossible. Instead of a smaller alliance renting modest sec level systems, working their asses off with the lower sites to attain upgrade availabilities and isk to purchase the upgrades and then using this money to expand and get a stronger foothold you'll be forcing these small guy alliances that want to move to nul to just disband and join their corps to one of the exhisting power blocs in order to even have a chance of succeeding at all or, even, to just pull out of nul-sec completely. Whithout Sactums and Havens I can say absolutely that these would have been the only two options for my alliance. So I feel that if these changes go into affect you'll see a mass exodus of smaller alliances pulling out of nul and back into high-sec or merging with the already too big alliances as they will no longer have the means to even pay the rent and sov bills let alone grow as an alliance.
I don't post much on the forums but I love this game and therefore couldn't let this one pass without speaking my mind. I'm not going to say CCP sucks or anything like that because they have given me and awesome game to play and the fact that everyone in this thread cares enough about this game to get as mad as they are about this topic says that CCP has done many things right. However, I have to beg you, CCP, to please not implement these changes. Nul-sec is the end-game dream of many a smaller alliance. Please don't take away the only tools these ambitious pilots have to achieve this!
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