Flamehaired Death
The Order Of Viision
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Posted - 2011.10.20 21:12:00 -
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sounds great.
except the part where you wipe out all large scale PI outside hi sec at once.
I think simply marking CONCORD destructible would be better move. Any alliance that wants to own can remove CONCORD offices in a couple days. LOL - any unprotected offices, CONCORD or private, will disappear fast enough in a few months. A key advantage is for players to realize requirements of how to attack or defend a custom office while still protecting crucial POS. LOL - could be huge recruiting drive from null sec.
Consider only PI mines materials and makes the parts for custom offices (plus POS and some T3 mats).
Consider with only hi sec making PI, the prices of PI stuff shoot through the roof (5-100 times now), especially POS fuel. Worse prices make all cargo ships docking at custom offices extremely worth ganking...even in hi sec. Consider ganked cargo is often destroyed. See higher prices and endless cycle of more ganking-price increases. I can see regular small fleet battles becoming a regular hi sec feature.
Plus custom offices will be additional, softer targets for alliances and corps to protect. *** Custom Offices don't seem to have any self-defense weapons*** Targets that by themselves are currently not considered worth losing many ships over, especially if you got POS(es) to protect nearby. Thus only the hard to reach heart of the larger alliances are likely to see a profusion of replacement custom offices in the near future. Border systems will likely prove too vulnerable to multiple diversionary raids to afford constant replacement custom offices. Only the largest WH corps will risk custom offices as destroying custom offices will make for good sized raid fleets willing to leave alt to probe return wh in 24 hours or so.
This seems to be a potential tipping point conflict where the outcomes can easily go several drastically different directions due to entanglement and mutual dependence of several crucial factors.
One of which is where limited orbital PI launches may become the norm for null sec, lo sec and especially smaller WH. And as a simultaneous result, hi sec PI is constantly ganked out of business at shipping time or incurs significant fleet battles for each shipment. And as an eventual result POSes starve for fuel and get ganked out of widespread use. Finally without easily available, widespread POSes, null sec and wh could return to sparse use as mainly for ratting and sleepers.
Of course the other main direction is that everyone cooperates in reestablishing custom offices everywhere before going to full scale war and even then things remain stable. But maybe the GOONs own all PI and are the bosses of EVE -- ROFLMAO (becasue people didn't think they would try the ice embargo thing either a month ago).
Perhaps Custom Offices should at least be given ability to run a handful of ordinary sentry drones as self-defense towers. Won't make any difference versus a fleet but it might provide some initial anti-gank and prevent easy false alarms from passing frigates (assuming you can see drone status). |