Dimitri Chandler
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Posted - 2006.04.17 05:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Ithildin
Valid concern is that the wealth (land, territory, of the rich kind) base is not growing bigger while the player base is increasing a lot more. Depending a bit on active people, timezones, etc, I estimate that each 0.0 constallation can support around 3-4 NPCers and maybe 10 miners.
Might be time for CCP to make nought nought systems slightly better. Shift the scale from the current -0.0 <> -1.0 to -0.5 <> -1.0. (NPC station constallations can be left unchanged)
Anyways. Empire's too safe to begin with. It's the high risk that needs fixing, and encouraging people to move out. Just a random idea.
Completely agree with this tbh. 5000 star systems was good with 10k players- now we probably need more.
One of the main attractions of Eve for me as a new player was the vast amounts of space to explore and the relative emptiness of most of 0.0, back in 2003/4. Now there is no mystery. Any exploration you want to do can be done on a website, so there is no point in going and looking for yourself. Another problem is the huge profitability that can be gained in empire space at the moment too.
There is perhaps a natural check on the size that alliances can get to and the amount of space they can control - as we have seen over the past 2 weeks, even the largest and most powerful alliances seem to fall apart once they reach a certain critical mass and claim a certain critical amount of territory.
Large scale political gameplay and universe domination is all good, but after a while it can become a little dull. Also, if you don't know at least half of the people in your alliance chat well then eve can increasingly feel like you're in the party after a stranger's wedding.
The solution?
Not sure there is one. Imposing limits on the size of corps or the amount of territory claimed will just cause alliances to operate as smaller alliances of alliances, much as they did in the early days as groups of corps.
Opening up Jove space would probably be a good start though.
Exiles recruiting
Nope :) -Capsicum |