Norrin Ellis
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Posted - 2012.11.05 10:41:00 -
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Oh, you were finished? Well, allow me to retort...
Geligdio Khan wrote:Firstly I really don't think how much stuff costs in ISK matters at all.
If you don't care about costs, then you also shouldn't care about the scale of rewards. Rewards are merely a means of affording things of higher costs.
Quote:When ships fall into our bubble camp we get excited if they took a lot of effort to obtain, and we kind of don't care if they were easy. So if ships cost a lot more effort to get it would just make killing frigs exciting, and battleships thunderawesome.
Everything was awfully expensive in the beginning. EVE's free market made things cheaper and more plentiful. Yay economics!
Quote:I think most PVPers just want to compete, it doesn't matter if it's BC vs BC or Frig vs Frig, it's just being able to compete.
Bullsh*t! Rarely do balanced fights even occur. Nobody wants to compete. Everyone wants to either win or avoid losing, and both of those goals necessitate superior numbers and firepower. PL supercap blob, anyone?
Quote:Secondly the cheapness of everything is what keeps industry in low and null down (that and the lack of infrastructure), if things were more expensive in HIgh Sec it would make it more worth making things in Null and that would be really great for the game.
What keeps industry down outside of highsec is that people outside of highsec have other ISK faucets aside from industry and plenty of highsec alts to provide for all their shopping needs, allowing them to concentrate on the currency they value most: killmails and e-peen measurement.
Quote:I, personally, think Null Empires should be self sufficient, they should have the whole tree, miners, manufacturers, traders, PVEers and PVPers because then there's something to defend and something for others to attack.
Sov right now is pretty much just bragging rights.
They do have the whole tree. They keep the vulnerable parts of the tree in highsec with the aforementioned alt brigade, however. The nullsec crowd is just as risk averse as anyone else when it comes to engaging in highly vulnerable activities.
Everything about the PvP side of the game is about bragging rights. Get rid of killmails if you want it to be about anything other than meta-game d*ckwaving.
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