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Veruna Caseti
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Posted - 2003.09.05 22:02:00 -
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Edited by: Veruna Caseti on 05/09/2003 22:04:29
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However, you all have to realise that the DEVELOPERS intent of this game is total domination
Did you get that? TOTAL DOMINATION...the GOAL OF EVE ACCORDING TO THE PROGRAMMERS is TO RULE THE UNIVERSE however one wants to....whether alone or with a team.
If you attempt to undo the very purpose of the game in the game....you are bring naive if not childish.
While I agree with you that this game is about domination, and hence a natural progression in the game is alliances and larger corporations gaining seats of power, you are missing the point of the original poster's complaint:
Even in a game about total domination, balance must be maintained. If 2-3 single corporations, or a few large alliances dominate the entire universe, then where is the enjoyment for smaller upstart corporations or freelance pilots?
Essentially if new players don't have a chance to establish a foothold in the universe due to OVER dominance, the game quickly loses it's ability to attract new players and hence old players quickly lose the ability to have a lot of fun.
While I'm not suggesting that I believe this is EVE's fate (I trust the programmers to maintain a balance in the universe, one way or another), it IS a valid concern and shouldn't just be dismissed by saying:
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Get on board with the programmers vision for this game or go play pokemon or candyland.
The game is about the STRUGGLE for total domination - to maintain the spirit of the game this STRUGGLE must go on. In other words, we all need to be working towards total domination, but nobody should ever be able to achieve it. If they do, EVE will die quickly.
Veruna Caseti
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Rizmordan Hillgotlieb
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Posted - 2003.09.05 23:17:00 -
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Go Watch the new American movie "Open Range"
It's about cattle grazing in the American old west and how an evil rancher and his gang attacks and prevents a cowboy and his workers from grazing on land that has always been free and open. The bad guy kills some of the good guys but in the end the good guy kills the bad guy... but what they failed to mention is that 50yrs later the land gets bought from the state and sold to a developer who builds houses, a car dealership and a mini-mall.
So as you can see history is repeating itself in EVE. So don't be suprised if cookie cutter space stations full of fat over-weight space suburbanites spring up in the Venal Region in the next few months...
I Don't see anybody controlling the space I roam around in... If some badass group of corps wants to control the turf I'm on then fine...
Really doesn't matter though. When I come to that bridge i'll either cross it or blow it the hell up.
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Alexia Te'Len
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Posted - 2003.09.05 23:20:00 -
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As I already said, these people say they "control" an area....but, from my experience, it's nothing but hot air and ego stroking.
Hell, the only people I know to actively persue me for defying them are a couple of EVER members, I came to a little mutual agreement with them that, until my ship is destroyed or my character is killed, I won't leave the Hodrold system....after all, I'd rather be seen as an Ore Thief with some degree of courage rather than another spineless, smack-talking prat.
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Rase
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Posted - 2003.09.06 00:22:00 -
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Veruna...First I'd like to say that you are HOT as balls.
Second...It seems you overlooked the whole security system paradigm that CCP used in each system. You said that having megacorps is a natural progression that it limits noobs from gaining a foothold. Obviously that is what the higher sec systems are for. The only areas in the game that can really truly be dominated/enforced is .0-.2...But that leaves an abundance of systems to "gain a foothold" in safety and even slowly transition to lower secuirty.
I guess that is why I would dismiss the assertion that its "not fair" or "imbalanced"
The very nature of the security systems is impeccable balance.
if a person or group of people can manage to not only start a massive corp, but also MAINTAIN order and structure....then they deserve to use that sheer number of people to take over 0.0-0.2.
Afterall...the US did it with oil in Iraq...might makes right if your Pres Bush, or a player in eve...especially in a game. Whats the different with Bistot in Fountain?
Besides...if a freelancer REALLY wants to get bistot in a blockaded region they can...stay up all night...immediatley after reboot set up warp bookmarks then go in whenever you want and fly right past the blockades....so in light of all this i dont see a fuggin leg the orig poster has to stand on beside gettin his jollies off of thinking he has "some great vision"....
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Rase
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Posted - 2003.09.06 16:12:00 -
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Veruna?
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Leellu Multipass
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Posted - 2003.09.06 17:04:00 -
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My sisters and I have been killing Stain Alliance members for days now, and it is becoming more and more fun. So we will just keep doing it. If you want to know how you can help us, contact me ingame.
Stain Alliance will die !!!
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SISQO
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Posted - 2003.09.06 18:43:00 -
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Megacorps and regional alliances appear to be gobbling up large pieces of valuable territory and claiming it as their own. This leaves freelancing individuals and independent small corps out in the cold so to speak.
What it all boils down to is that Eve is slowly becoming a universe run by megacorps and alliances and not by the community as a whole.
I could be wrong but it surely is starting to look that way to me. Feel free to agree or disagree, but please give me a good reason why.
Is this what we want? I for one do not want this to happen, but I believe that it is inevitable.
This is how its supposed to be in the game, read the game box and manual. However freelancers and small corps are free to band together and make it otherwise with force. Freelancers and small corps shouldn't really have a problem going through regions if they have good connections, but if you don't fighting OR getting connections is the way to go.
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PropanElgen
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Posted - 2003.09.06 19:16:00 -
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The alliances locking up regions are far worse than pirates and griefers, imho.
All the angels and the puny men of god looked away...
Frightened to death by the evil that was born on that day!
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Goldar Hektu
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Posted - 2003.09.07 07:52:00 -
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veruna:
Good post and point. Perhaps we are a bit closer in agreement than i had thought, just disagree over the role of independents.
note to self - take Veruna Caseti off do-not-trade list, but leave O.R.E Syndicate on, as they may stand in the way of total dominance
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