Tydeth Gilitae
Magewright Artificers
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Posted - 2013.07.09 06:08:00 -
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Name one thing that Null players do that can affect a High-sec player's game? Should be easy, though my list may need tweaking as I've only a couple months of experience here. My research may thus be incomplete or contain a misunderstanding. If so, I'd appreciate any information to correct the flaws. For credentials, I'm a High-sec player, though I do plan on expanding.
1. Mining barges and many other ships above frigate class require the mineral Megacyte to build. Megacyte mainly comes from Null-Sec mining. Wormhole J-space can also provide this mineral, but not in the same volume as Null.
2. Tech II stuff needs Morphite, which is another Null-sec product. They also need moon mining materials, which unlike regular mining needs a base orbiting a moon with certain modules equipped. Moon mining is Low/Null exclusive. Neither High nor J-space can provide "Moon Goo."
3. Null wars cause a bunch of ships to explode out there. This results in needing replacements, creating additional demand for minerals, ship modules, ammunition, and hulls. Whether you mine or mission or hunt NPCs, when you sell the result on the market, it may be a Null player buying it. Also, blue and purple modules, Officer and Dead Space respectively?, come from Null, supplying the High-sec mission runners and miners who want shiny things in their ships.
4. Up until recently Tech II production was under 100% control of a NullSec coalition, Goonswarm if I remember correctly, because they owned every source of a specific Moon Material, Technetium, that was until Odyssey expansion required to make Tech II things.
5. If Ice Mining is your High-sec thing, those moon bases I mentioned need fuel blocks made from the refined materials of ice to even power themselves. Granted, there is ice in Low and Null as well, so they don't need High-sec Ice, but they may still buy the materials or fuel while they're up in Jita buying Tritanium so as to not need to mine Veldspar out there. Also, J-space can't have ice, so they need to import. Since the trade hubs are in High-sec and most likely filled with High-sec ice, that's what wormhole dwellers buy.
6. Speaking of Low/Null and ice, Titans. These massive ships, the biggest in the game, can act as mobile star gates, allowing fleets to bounce around great distances skipping some of the actual star gates along the way. They need something from Ice to work. I think Cynosural field generators also use ice water, and bases, dreadnoughts, and that Rorqual industrial cap use Strontium Castrates to do stuff. More demand for ice.
7. As touched in 5: Null players may buy the minerals acquired by High-sec mining to save time and hassle for the Null miners, so they don't need to mine those same ores and can focus on getting the shiny ones. They could also just send some of there miners to High-sec to mine those same ores themselves, thus increasing competition in the belts and reducing the amount their alliance may need to buy from High-sec markets.
8. In addition to game-mechanic based effects, the Null players can choose to do things to High-sec players, funded by their Null income methods(which are invariably better than High-sec income of the same type). Some examples:
- Hulkageddon, wherein they - Goons I think it was? - call open season on ALL the mining barges, and pay based on the amount destroyed, and I think types, using Null money. These may have also inspired the formation of the Knights of the New Order, who perform a perpetual but smaller scale version of the Hulkageddon on those who don't buy their permits.
- Burn Jita 1 & 2. Goonswarm killed ships flying to and from Jita, which put a dent on High-sec market.
- Miniluv, where Goons (seeing a pattern here? lol) go about killing freighters because they can. This will hit the market.
9. Null Alliance members campaign for CSM along with other players, and those making it into the CSM can guide CCP's development of EVE by representing the player base as a whole. Also, some of CCP's staff have played EVE amongst us prior to hiring, and some of them may have been in Null Alliances. |