Russell Casey
One Ton
THREE WOLF
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Posted - 2011.10.22 22:53:00 -
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1) Local needs to change. Doesn't have to be delayed, but it needs to be harder to identify a small gang than just scrolling down and seeing what color everybody is. Small gangs will know who's in their fleet, but large gangs or even busy trade hubs with a high population count won't know there's enemies among them until it's too late. And that's really what a small force is meant to do in warfare, separate from a larger force and pick off stragglers, disrupt logistics, eliminate the enemy's ability to supply themselves and generally sow confusion so the big force has an easier time. They can also gank the enemy's unprotected carebears to hurt their isk income.
2) A bridging option without a POS or a titan. Again, they have to be able to infiltrate and outmanuever larger forces and hit an enemy empire's soft underbelly (which in EVE would be the carebears who can't even deal with AFK cloakers) in order to hurt an enemy alliance's income (again, if you gank their carebears, you gank their war machine).
3) Ways to flip a system without a huge POS-bash and long-ass timers and the ability to take down moon mining areas not adequately guarded. There has to be something that makes a small gang a legimate threat so the larger force will even bother to chase them. Otherwise they'll be ignored. And also, make it easier to gank unprotected carebears and hurt their enemey's income.
4) Easier ways to gank an enemy's carebears/bots if they're unprotected and thus hurt their income.
Yes, I'm picking on carebears because anyone who's played an RTS will tell you that when you get raiders into an enemy's base the FIRST thing you kill are his workers, farmers, builders, transports, etc because it keeps him from rolling out the heavy combat units and forces him to protect his economy. That's what null really is: a giant game of Starcraft. Kind of sucks being an SCV or a zergling, don't it? Which is why I don't live there.
And if you say EVE is completely different from Starcraft, didn't the DRF just win 0.0 by spamming (upgraded) Carriers? |