Khadmos
Serenity Engineering and Transport Company
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2011.11.08 17:50:00 -
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Dear Mr. The Mittani,
I think EVE would be a far more interesting place if null sec alliances actually wanted other entities using their space. This would make it a lot easier for newer corps/alliances as they could live in another alliances space while learning the ropes of 0.0 warfare/politics and building their numbers.
So what keeps this from happening?
There is no incentive for a space holding alliance to allow anyone else in their space. Corp office rental fees, sales tax, etc. are a drop in the bucket compared to income from mining high end moons. On top of that, any guest corp/alliance can just move all their loot to jita with jump freighters so the host alliance wont see much income due to local commerce. As it is, station markets in 0.0 are only used to supply alliance members with ships and ammo to defend the space and/or rat. Rarely is anything of value (gained in the 0.0 space) sold on these markets.
On the flip side, the space holding alliance has little to offer the guest corp/alliance. Short of 24/7 roaming gangs they can't offer any protection. An alliance with lots of high end systems might be able to spare some belt rats but most alliances will need all of their anoms and complexes for their members. 0.0 resources don't scale to the number of players in the space, high sec has agents that give missions. If 1 person wants a mission, there is 1 mission, if 5,000 people want a mission, there are 5,000 missions. In 0.0, a fully upgraded system has at most 5 valuable anomalies whether there is 1 person running them or 5,000.
A lot of people (and I think the CCP devs are included in this) think of 0.0 space as somewhere that big alliances take over and make their home. The truth is, 0.0 space is just where the alliances farm. It's an awesome playground and the big alliances claim it as their own and beat up any other kid that tries to play there. Sure, their members spend 99% of their time in null sec but there is a constant stream of jump freighters moving ships, ammo and mods from jita out to null sec. Every 0.0 alliance does all of their shopping (buying and selling) in Jita. If it wasn't for the JF link to jita, none of the 0.0 alliances would have the minerals or ice products to support themselves.
Jump freighters and high end moons are by far the largest factors in the current state of 0.0. The gap in value between high end and low end moon resources is way too big, it shouldn't be so easy for 0.0 alliances to do all of their shopping in Jita and 0.0 space can't support anywhere near enough pilots for alliances to open their space up.
Am I just crazy, or would eve be far more interesting if null sec was actually a place where people lived, buying, selling, mining and manufacturing things?
Countless small things would need to be adjusted as well. For example, the access rights on mobile labs are currently useless. One outpost per system may not be enough, or outposts will need more research/manufacturing slots. Agents in player owned stations would be nice, better yet, allow sov owners to pay for missions or rat bounties (or add their own isk to rat bounties) in their systems and have the number of missions completed and rats killed give a benefit to the sov holders (tougher sov structures, cheaper maintenance costs, whatever).
Is CCP looking at doing anything like this to shake things up or are they quite happy with the current state of the game and sov warfare? |