ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Late Night Alliance
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Posted - 2014.02.09 07:32:00 -
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I think what a lot of people misunderstand when some of us ask for Empire to be split up we are not necessarily asking for PvEers, Industrialists, or carebears to be "forced" into doing something that they don't really want to do.
High-sec will largely remain as is. So people can still run missions... build stuff... mine... etc. Nothing about that will change.
What a "split up" means to many of us is that there be low-sec border zones between all the empires. That means if you want to ship something from say... Jita to Amarr... you have to cross through a "border zone" comprised of low-sec systems.
This will have more of an economic impact on the game than anything else... encouraging people to build, sell, and buy stuff more locally... rely more on local miners and industrialists (creating new niche markets and agreements)... and creating true price variances between different trade hubs which can reward those haulers/traders and PvPers alike (see: protection rackets).
Now how many jumps of low-sec will separate the empires? It doesn't have to be vast... maybe 1 or 2 systems gap... extra high-sec to low-sec connections can be added to provide alternative routes (so there are fewer chokepoints to be squeezed into)... and maybe turn the border gates themselves into regional gates (making them much harder to camp, but not impossible).
Way back in the day there were high-sec "superhighways" linking the different empires together. This was kept around because the server population was low and the economy was more dependent on fewer people mining, building, and shipping stuff. When EVE grew to a certain point, those "superhighways" were removed to create a greater separation (through travel time) between the various regions and encourage more localized economies.
I think we are slowly reaching (or have reached) a new point where we have enough people feeding the EVE's in-game economy to sustain truly regional economies.
Think of it... the prices for the LP Faction Mods from different faction will actually have much more value outside of the empire they were gained in (rather than the 5 to 15% differences we see now). The prices of ores and minerals in one trade hub will no longer be directly dictated by the prices of those same things in another trade hub 20 or 30 jumps away. And there will be an actual reason for PvPers in one area to make deals with their local industrialists or traders rather than "fire up alt... buy in Jita... haul 30 jumps... set up."
I won't disagree that there won't be economic turmoil at first (along with the vicious rage of Incusion Runners because now they can't easily just hop from one site over to the next)... but if any of us "veterans" have seen anything, it's that eventually things settle down and reach an equilibrium of sorts... especially if a large enough profit margin is involved. Change isn't bad, but it isn't always good. Sometimes, the oldest and most simple of things can be the most elegant and effective. |