Jenn aSide
STK Scientific
Initiative Mercenaries
3615
   |
Posted - 2013.12.10 00:50:00 -
[1] - Quote
Local isn't going anywhere, because at the end of the day, local is one of EVE Online's nessacary evils (like for instance, Gates, which reduce the vastness of space to small areas where people can force fights). It has to work this way because it it doesn't, few and fewer players will do things in dangerous places.
Wormholes prove this, in terms of population it's the least visited/populated are of the game despite the fact that it's a LOT hared for the "big established alliances" to exert influence over (kinda shoots a whole in that whole theory of null sec being screwedup because of the big allainces.....). Wormhoels are geat, but in order to get "no local" to work all kinds of hoops had to be jumped through, like no gates and no cynos.
Without local in K space, it would be the military upgrades system nerf all over again. Before CCP nerfed military upgrades, you could upgrade any system to be like any other, so ccp changed it to observe a systems ruesec (making large swaths of null sec next to worthless for income purposes). The stated goal was to drive conflict.
It didn't, because of the unintended consequences that come from "developing in a vaacum". it might have "driven conflcit" if EVE was nothing but null sec. What it actually drove was people to take their alts and put them in cheap frigs to orbit buttons in FW plex or fly machs and vindis in high sec incursions or other isk makiing pve, resulting in fewer people in null sec ratting (ie fewer targets for roaming gangs/raiders) Something that was supposed to drive conflict ended up driving carebearing lol.
Same here. You remove local and replace it with something not as good at helping people survive in null and all you end up with is fewer people doing PVE stuff in null sec, because most people will follow the path of least resistance...and that path leads to Emipre, or at best NPC null (null missions have the advantage of creating deadspace that requires the people trying to kill you to put probes in space, even if for only a short time). |