PopeUrban
El Expedicion
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Posted - 2013.09.28 10:03:00 -
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I see what's going on here.
A:
Create more alliance enablers to profit from outside entities
B:
Make operating alliances a much more logistically intensive endeavor
C:
Add tools to profit from alliances that have a larger reach than grasp, and make those tools cost effective from the micro to macro level.
D:
In effect creating a consilidation of alliance power down to what can actually be monitored and defended.
It looks, to me, like the idea is to extend OPPORTUNITIES for player control, but at the same time amp up the RESPONSIBILITY for the things you do control. Currently there is not much in the way of punishment for having a massive reach on all sorts of assets you don't actively defend or use (SoV and PI being the worst offenders, Moon Mining a close third) So we move forward by saying "yeah, you can have all of it, but you also can;t be lazy with it when you have it"
I like this. As a guy who spends a great deal of time violating sov borders, I think the amping up of more opportunist playstyles is a good thing for the growth of small to medium sized corporations, adds consequence for overextension of sov, and is rewarding for thief/salvager playstyles that previously had very little to do (just can flipping and the occasional failed WH base really)
Think about it. If anyone can drop siphons on moons, and you own, let's say 40 moons... well, do you actively patrol those 40 moons? If not, then you might actually be losing income by extending in to more space than you can effectively monitor, as the equivalent of say 10 moons is stolen from you on a near permanent basis. So you call it, you pull back to 30 moons that you actually kjeep tabs on. You spend less on the sov bills and you make just as much in moon goo.
Anyone saying this raod is the "death of hisec" isn't seeng the big picture. What I see here is the consolidation of nullsec if anything. You think people who now have to devote more resources to keeping track of what they used to just plop and visit once every two weeks have time to both maintain their current reach and also expand it?
Nope. I'm seeing a world in which large alliances become more powerful, but also far more consolidated. Where members of those alliances actually have **** to do that precludes them from randomly trolling your precious shiny boat.
It's already extremely easy to violate most sov space and do pretty much anything you want there short of blowing up their assets. Now that there's a mechanism in place for people to walk in and take moon goo, and deposit it in a reinforcable supercan at a safe? I think they have more important things to worry about than "subjugating hisec" as there will be actual content not related to starting random wars out of boredom. |