Arindel Heideran
Ad Perpetuam Memoriam Heideran VII
Silent Infinity
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Posted - 2014.07.07 21:19:00 -
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While I do agree that restricting jump drives to adjacent systems is a little too harsh (significant range penalties would be preferable in my opinion), I think people decrying how any reduction to JF projection ruins logistics to the point that null will empty are also overreacting. Admittedly I live in a highly populated region close to empire space at the moment, but it seems most of the concerns about logistics still make the assumption that groups will try to maintain their multi-region empire. The idea of Manfred's changes is to make this a thing of the past.
Yes, maintaining logistics for 3 or 4 regions with your current number of logistics pilots and the proposed changes would be hard. That is the idea. This would encourage reduction in the amount of space held, thus opening up null to more groups, and would also encourage the development of null industry to allay those logistics issues through local production. Frankly, the reason why things like sov timers and logistics work is because the only way to prevent players from simply burning everything is to make the means to do it distasteful. The only way you will break up the current super-coalitions is if it is more of a pain for them to remain and fight together than to break out into their own little sections of space and set up a whole bunch of little blobs.
To draw a real-world comparison, you have the world pre-industrial era and the world in the modern era. If you want to promote massive, devastating wars, certainly modern transportation and infrastructure has facilitated this in the past century. If you wanted to look for tons of small wars, you want to look back to when food and equipment were serious impediments to the mobility of your armies. Since unlike in the real world, in Eve, most of us WANT fights, its better off if we have a less globally connected, more isolated universe if we want to promote hundreds of small conflicts, rather than tedious peace interspersed with massive wars where a single pilot or small group simply doesn't matter.
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