Kryss Darkdust
The Skulls
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Posted - 2013.02.03 09:35:00 -
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I think you have put too much stock in the importance and influence of large alliances in the current meta game of Eve. There was a time when alliances and alliance blocs carried with them a certain prestige and power, alliances and blocs where able to do things a small corp or an individual never could.
This however is no longer the case in part because CCP has effectively re-designed the game slowly but surely to make certain that large blocs and alliances are only relevant to each other, not the rest of Eve. What Goons, Test or any Null SOV holding alliance does today is utterly and completely irrelevant to the individual player, small corp or alliance other than the occasional bump in the prices which in itself is completely irrelevant.
There are two key reasons for this. First and foremost, the inflation of the economy has resulted in the average Eve player being able to afford pretty much anything they like. ISK has no value anymore and as such blocs influence on the economy is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if a X ship costs 100 million or 300 million, either amount is nothing, most Eve players poop that out on a daily basis without even playing. The whole Tech Moon control crap.. it only matters to the blocs out in Null Sec, to a small corp like me a few extra million for whatever... I don't even flinch. Utterly and completely irrelevant.
Secondly is space control. There was a time when alliances could control who does and doesn't walk through their space but with wormholes appearing all over the place, its no longer possible to keep people out. I can rat in NULL sec anytime I feel like it and these alliances can't stop me. Worse yet in most cases they are forced to run from my crew as they rarely have the resources and time to put in to try and stop someone from ratting in their back yard. Its only propaganda and fear that keeps people out of null sec, but the alliances can't do **** about it and most people out there don't even bother trying.
In essence, what Null Sec blocs do, has zero impact on the average Eve player. Money is no object and wormholes have made null sec a free ratting zone. There is absolutly no reason to pay for ratting rights or even be in a Null Sec alliances as you have access to all the same resources as an individual without having to ask Big Brother if you can do it. Blocs control over Eve is nothing more than propoganda done right. But it reality, they have no power anymore.
The reality of Eve is that, if you don't love it like it is today, you should probobly go ahead and unsub.-á |