Astomichi
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Posted - 2011.08.03 20:09:00 -
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Edited by: Astomichi on 03/08/2011 20:10:04 The cause of majority of these "problems" with current 0.0 mechanics (ie. those things which currently go against the principles you've outlined here), can be shown to rest firmly with CCP's ineffective enforcement of anti-botting rules.
Too many supercaps? That's because you left the botting coalitions to do their thing in peace for years while they built them.
The failure of your past efforts to refocus 0.0 alliances' income on "active" vs. "passive"? With bots, everything becomes passive. (Also, active income in 0.0 isn't competitive with hisec without bots so that's additional incentive.)
The death of small-gang hunting? When you replace all the people who used to just "hang out" in a section of space and rat/mine/live with bots, you simultaneously remove the roaming group's targets and the space-holding group's incentive to form a fleet to combat the roamers. If you have unkillable bots, there's no reason to fight small gangs - it's far more effective to bore them into not even coming my anymore (see: the whole of dronelands).
Blobs? Bots encourage these in two ways. a) In the smaller case, many people with just one or two alts will bot with those to provide their personal isk. Endemically, they lose interest in PvP itself after a month or two due to the lack of consequences for them. All that's left is an interest in the overarching politics of EvE, so they only log in for the CTAs, and the skew is increased towards the blob. b) In the more damaging (and common) case, one or a few people run an army of bots, and using the massive income fund a "toy" alliance for themselves. This creates an unnaturally high concentration of people whose needs are mostly (through alliance ship replacement programs etc) supplied by botting and whose actions are thus tied to the ambitions of the bot-masters running the alliance. Botters only real need in EvE is more space to bot in, so they'll use their personal blob to get it, and you end up with EvE's current political state.
0.0's mechanics do need to be looked at, but until the botting issue is really resolves, all your changes will just be spitting in the wind.
Oh, and CCP Hairwave? U Mad? I'd would've expected more artful trolling from you than what I've seen so far.
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