Dibblerette
The Phantom Regiment
THE ROYAL NAVY
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Posted - 2013.01.13 22:50:00 -
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@Malcanis
Glad to see your platform is as sensible as your posting. My only question is what would you do to try and improve lowsec (specifically non-FW, CCP seems to forget about us) beyond the extensions of your Manifest? More industrialists trying to run the gates is good, but I would rather be able to describe where I live as something other than "Nullsec without bubbles, but gate guns".
Regardless, I wish you luck sir. +1 |
Dibblerette
The Phantom Regiment
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Posted - 2013.03.26 06:55:00 -
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Malcanis wrote:Dibblerette wrote:@Malcanis
Glad to see your platform is as sensible as your posting. My only question is what would you do to try and improve lowsec (specifically non-FW, CCP seems to forget about us) beyond the extensions of your Manifest? More industrialists trying to run the gates is good, but I would rather be able to describe where I live as something other than "Nullsec without bubbles, but gate guns".
Regardless, I wish you luck sir. +1 Lo-sec is a conundrum, I freely admit. When you say "improve", what exactly do you mean by "improve"? "Improve for whom"? Defining the problem is the first step in constructing the solution. I feel that I have a fairly clear idea of what sov 0.0 should look like, but I freely confess that I'm not as sure about what kind of lo-sec we should be working towards. At the moment, lo-sec is a haven for small independent corps, and it's a ghetto. I can easily think of quite a few ideas to raise it up from ghetto status, but by the very act of making the space better, there's a danger to that "small corp haven" status. CCP did well to make Faction Warfare more attractive, and that has surely increased both the PvP activity and the economic activity in lo-sec. Would you like more of that?
More traffic is good, as FW has taught us, but you hit the nail on the head. Make lowsec too much better and why bother with null?
I guess I would like it better if we had something worth coming to (non-FW) lowsec to do or see, something beyond taking a shortcut. There was an old idea trotted out awhile back to allow pirates to corrupt a system, and anti-pirates, or even a rival pirate group, could reverse this trend and "purify" the system. Not that it would allow enough people to turn Rancer into Yulai, but perhaps with enough corruption, pirates would be able to temporarily disable or redirect gate guns. Or gain access to hidden stargates, run drugs for a new breed of NPC agents, or something like that. I've always seen lowsec as the murky underworld of EVE, and I hope some day it reflects that. Now I know you can't exactly walk up to CCP and tell them what to do, but maybe you can help plant a seed that will someday transform the bastard space of lowsec into something much more interesting and dynamic than gatecamps and ganking noobs in belts. |