RavenTesio
Liandri Corporation
Liandri Covenant
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Posted - 2014.06.19 17:53:00 -
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Mathew fluffersom wrote:The title says it all, make the universe bigger.
Space comes under N3 or CFC, it's time to expand EVE to allow other corps to own a system.
Yeah people could take those systems but corps who have a strong fleet could hold the system without causing war and taking them from CFC or N3.
They will be... but there are some MASSIVE overhauls of systems in place that NEED to happen before they add anymore space as right now doing so would only expand the potential wealth (which is already absolutely ludicrous) that the major power blocs have as they'll just swarm through the new space; planting flags and installing new Renters / Pets.
What CCP's visions /appears/ to be is one that encourages major powers to create their own form of Empire Space.
As it stands if you look at the major Null-Sec Factions, while they claim massive swaths of it... where people /actually/ "live" is actually just a fraction of it. Basically Null-Sec is damn near identical to Amarr Space or Arizona, for most part just whole lot of nothing - but every so often you'll come across some major metropolis filled with people ready to shoot you because they're bored that day; can't blame them there's basically naff all to do.
Now personally one thing that would help the game right now would be a change to the Jump Portal mechanics...
Something like:
Limited Mass per Jump Portal (Something like a C3/4 Wormhole Mass before destabilising)
A Jump Bridge requires 2 Jump Portals to be Active (Start and End Point) [and yes I do include Covert Ops Portals in that]
Jump Portals have a 120 Second Cycle Time (Covert can still be 30, but would have a C1/C2 Mass)
Cynosural Fields should also require Capacitor to remain open / online, but even if you cap out the cycle time remains the same; so you'd end up stuck waiting for the time with no Cyno there until someone fed you cap. This would likely lead to Carriers or Logistics being jumped initially with only a small protection force (if any) so again a good way to ensure fights as those dropping have to logistically try to maintain the Bridge point.
The range is fine, but limiting the effectiveness and forcing Titans / Black Ops to be each end.
I can guarantee you that would cut-down on response times, fleet projection capabilities and lead to more fights.
One of the biggest issues is being able to easily move large fleets about, and cost frankly while sure might be irritating it has gone up; frankly is still a drop in the bucket and just screws over the "little guy" more. Instead the mechanics themselves have to really force a bottleneck on force projection and movement, being unable to properly provide back-up to an area - would mean either spreading out their forces, or losing that space.
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Mind not sure how easy it would be to do, but you really want some Space under the current mechanics... figure a way to sow dissent within the Coalitions to a point where each of the members of any given coalition then rip themselves apart from the inside out. I mean I wouldn't imagine it would be that difficult to play egos' off of each other for riches, pride, etc...
Another options is hitting them where it hurts, their passive income; tempt renters away, do coordinated strikes against moons, heck you start hitting random R32 / R64 moons in the name of another group; or trick said group in someway to get involved, and a misunderstanding later and either you have diplomatic nightmare that will flair tempers, sow dissent and eventually Coalition Civil War.
That'll never break up particularly strong and closely knit groups, but something like N3 or CFC; honestly those groups are purely kept together out of fear of the established main group - you just need to find the weakest link, exploit it and watch things implode then explode.
Shouldn't even be that hard right now, long-standing "peace" tends to have that effect on pilots in big alliances / blocs ... they're just looking for an excuse for the galaxy to burn and for them to be involved in it. Of course leaderships will always try to limit such things because it's more profitable (and easier) to deal with peace time throwing the masses at proxy wars to fix the boredom. |