Dersen Lowery
Laurentson INC
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Posted - 2013.02.05 05:04:00 -
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Nicolo da'Vicenza wrote:If you wanted to have an effect on big nullsec alliances, why not attack their supply freighters autopiloting past you every day? Let's not delude ourselves into thinking there's titan bridges on standby to deal with the "Mara Rinn frigate roam threat".
That one's easy: The farms and fields would be within alliance sov, so you'd know who you were weakening. Nullsec alliance logistics pilots are almost always either NPC corp alts, or they're in plausibly deniable alt corps. Mara's trying to find something for smaller groups to do; they're not going to know which NPC corp freighter to gank unless they have well-placed spies inside the alliance they're trying to sabotage--and no spies in their own corp from that alliance. That hardly encourages high-sec freighter ganking as a "farms and fields" style disruption. The only way for small corps to take advantage of the near-Jita pipeline is to become pirates who don't care whose freighters they gank as long as the drop makes it profitable. Their effect on sov will be random noise.
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Dersen Lowery
Laurentson INC
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Posted - 2013.02.06 04:41:00 -
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EI Digin wrote:Players should be able to join a community where they can enjoy the game together, not necessarily as individuals in highsec.
Players in the most long-lived and successful alliances generally have such communities outside of EVE, e.g.: Reddit, to pick a name out of the air. The alliances are then simple projections of those communities onto EVE. The social bonds are already forged, and that's the hardest problem.
The players that The Mittani referred to as the 'EVE-born,' those who forge social connections purely within the game, start out at a significant disadvantage, receive very little help from the NPE and basically have to find out the hard way whether they're being recruited by potential allies, or gankers, or scammers. If I had to pick an area where EVE is really falling short of the mark, this would be it.
The people who know exactly which alliance, and often which corp, they're going to join before they've even download the client get a comparatively charmed and effortless introduction to the game and far more guidance from established players to help them acclimate to the game's treacherous depths. I'm not sure that we (because I'm one of these people) understand exactly how harsh the game is to 'EVE-born' players.
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