EVE Search - Null sec what chance does the little guy have

Infinity Ziona wrote:

Onictus wrote:

Linkxsc162534 wrote:

Ironically... I am an ME (though at work I do more EE)

But yes the argument stands, simple spreading out systems can easily knock down a bit of the jumping huge fleets problem, with it still being a viable tactic.

I'm a computer type now, but I was a tech for a lot of years first, so I spend a fair amount of time at work reining in big heads that like to....erm.....over sophisticate damn near everything.

In short it would make capital movement a LOT harder if you have ever tried to get to Cobalt Edge from North or Querious from the east by jump drive its a significant venture. There are a couple way to go about it. Either spread the systems which makes it murder to do logistics, spread the regions, or reduce the jump range on combat classed capitals.

.....however, I'm loath to say that dreads need any form of a nerf, and carriers are a quality of life thing.
.....and logistics guys, FFS I'm not sure how they don't burn out to start with, many do, that is why they are so valuable.

Even then going on this premise is mostly crap anyway. Where does the little guy fit into null sec? He doesn't its not a little guy kind of place, and no amount of reducing force projection is going to change that, all that would be accomplished is that you would slow the game down. Wars would still happen just as they do now, the blob will still be the blob, it just makes pretty much EVERY factor of living in nullsec MORE ******* aggravating.

I've been out of game for about 6 weeks with a move, so today I got logged in got back to my deployed assets and got them to the staging system. Took about 25 minute of travel time, swapping a couple fleets to get on chains going the right direction and such.

I moved a grand total of 5 ships, Now considering that one was a battleship that leg between the last two jumps would have taken 10 minutes ....to go ten jumps.....and then the return lap in nub ships? That is an hour out of my day to move 5 ships. No one's Alliance is going to say "You know what, that is going to be hard to move," it doesn't happen. The alliances say, get your gear here, caps join this fleet, sub-caps find a convoy.

Nothing changes, its just MORE aggravating.

It should be aggravating to an extent. Everyone forgets quickly the difficulty of the past and is always pushing for faster better easier. It used to take me 2 days to download 10 mb from a bulletin board, now if it takes me 5 minutes I'm cursing and swearing at how slow my connection is today.

We used to live out in Null with 100 jumps of pure terror (if you were carrying mega and zyd) to high sec in T1 industrials and we survived. To move 5 ships across EVE would have taken something like 1000 jumps. There were no regional jumps every few systems. Just HED-GP choke and another route through Fountain (I lived in Stain).

The fact is that its never been easier to do logistics or live in null but the brains plasticity quickly gets used to the new ease and wants its easier. Its gotten to the point its so easy in your 37k man coalition that there really is no way for anyone to defeat that except to create another 37k coalition.

This - shows two modes of connecting EVE and its regions. The first with low connections creates ponds. The second creates a lake.

With ponds if a guy fills his up and wants to take over another pond he has to do some serious travelling. With ponds there is no major incentive to NAP everyone in other ponds since other ponds dont pose an immediate threat (they're not next door).

With lakes (which is what we currently have) everyone is connected to his neighbor. In a lake its mandatory to nap everyone around you or kill them. Everyone around you poses an immediate threat. The addition of many many regional jumps turned EVE from a pond game to a lake game.

So while your moving 5 ships took 1 whole hour it should probably have taken longer for the health and benifit of the game as a whole.