Thredd Necro
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.11.29 05:12:00 -
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Abdiel Kavash wrote:Akrasjel Lanate wrote:Abdiel Kavash wrote:Nullsec industry. Namely the fact that mining and building stuff localy is orders of magnitude slower, more expensive, time-consuming and less efficient than simply importing everything from Jita. The efficienty, speed, and scaleability of 0.0 industry needs to be multiplied many times to be able to compete with the thousands of industrialists in highsec. Until that happens, there will be very little reasons to do any industry at all in 0.0, other than "because I like it".
(Disclaimer: I live in Pure Blind. If the situation is different on the furthest edges of the universe, then I don't know much about it.)
In my opinion this is right now amongst the biggest gaping chest wounds of EVE. Null is not safe as High-sec and the consequence is not being able to produce as much as hi-sec. And the consequence of that is that people who only want to do mining or industry and not get involved in combat (whatever their reasons are) do not have a place in 0.0. An entire area of the game is obsoleted because even a corporation of industrialists can't utilize the resources well enough to compete with one person with a (jump) freighter. This is bad design. Contrary to popular belief, 0.0 should not just be a supercap PvP arena. Nullsec should be a place to build empires.
Last I checked the resources in 0.0 automagically renew just like they do everywhere else. In fact 0.0 is the place to go for moongoo, etc. So hey, here's a thought: don't burn through so many ships and you will have more money!
Unfrozen caveman nullbear: "Your money saving ways are strange to me."
Carebear: "I know but hey if it works for Warren Buffet and Donald Trump it can work for you."
Unfrozen caveman nullbear: "Hey man you got tree fiddy? I came up a little short ganking a miner."
Carebear: "Hey I gotta go..."
Unfrozen caveman nullbear: "Being a nullbear ranger costs money. Lazy ass carebear won't give me what I am entitled to. I guess I will go fill my diaper and cry to CCP. They always seem ready to help nullbears."
Unless I am mistaken 0.0 has multiple empires currently in place that are quite stable. Check a map and you will see.
Here's a fact about empires: They can be REALLY boring to operate. Treaties, tributes, trading, taxing and tolls are some of the joys of bureaucracy. How about military garrisons, training and patrolling and trying to AVOID burning military resources in pointless and silly ways because we need them for offense/defense?
Oh and as a rule they want the greatest reward with the least risk possible. True story.
Empires are not built by constant combat and piracy, not if they want to last. Rather they are most successful when they are built by taking and holding space, taxing, tolling, collecting tribute, producing, trading, patrolling, sometimes defending, sometimes attacking.
More needs to be done about making this game more entertaining for more people rather than catering to wannabe e-thugs, virtual badasses and commandos-in-their-own-minds who want to feel special.
Then again that may be EXACTLY what CCP wants. Their behavior over the years certainly appears to support that idea.
It's not piracy if they took millions of ISK out of their own pockets now is it?
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