Nik Domar
Acerbus Vindictum
Stealth Wear Inc.
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Posted - 2012.12.03 04:55:00 -
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Change like this is very unfortunate. I have fought in those 2/10 plexes many times and I recognize many people who has responded to this thread from those plexes.
These complexes had unique ability to gather frigate/destroyer size PvPers to fight over small prize or just to have a place where combat could happen without interference of larger ships. Main problem of these sites have been related to PvE side of the complex and resulted in complex farming
While trying to fix the PvE side problem, the PvP side of the complex is getting totally ignored. Many non-FW regions do not have any other unique complexes like these for small ship PvP.
Easy solution for this would be to reverse the change and put these complexes back they used to be along with all of their little problems, but maybe there is alternative.
There could be new lowsec feature, where previous issues of these sites would be fixed and their advantages boosted. There are multiple things to take into consideration here
First of all reward of the site should be decent enough to be worth fighting over. If max reward is too low, players won't be as much encouraged to run the site and fight over the loot. If DED loot is going to stay in original 1/10 and 2/10 complexes, something else should be considered here.
PvE opposition could be something like new faction warfare NPC opposition as PvE opposition shouldn't interfere with PvP. Reward should also be non-farmable, so access to the site wouldn't require key to enter and the reward dropping mechanism wouldn't be accessible by just cloaking and waiting for container to drop/structure to spawn/npc to spawn.
Location of the site should be just little bit dynamic. Sites should still be in same system for decent amount of time (let's say up to one week). After time has passed, complex would despawn and respawn somewhere else in same region. Also entry to site itself using acceleration gate could be diffirent, to prevent anyone camping entry point with ships, such as instalock legion/loki, to give better access to site and possible fight with similar sized ships for everyone.
These complexes could also be spawned into areas where there has not been previously 1/10 or 2/10 complexes to farm, but total number should be kept low, to keep reward value high and PvPers more concentrated to certain areas.
Even if this sounds small problem for some of the players, for lowsec people who actually live and fight in the systems where these complexes are located, it is actually very important part of their daily PvP. I really hope something will get done to return or replace old complexes. |