Vald Tegor
Empyrean Guard
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2014.10.21 20:25:37 -
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Solecist Project wrote:This just doesn't make sense!
Given any number of people,
there must be a smaller number of people who would run them,
yet nobody does that. It just makes no sense to me.
Hell, I'm no fan of PvE either but I acknowledge the fact that people exist who run it.
How can it be that of thousands of people, nobody does them?
Because it lights up the PvE counter and people will come and drop onto them?
I understand that it's no fun, but how is it possible that SO many people share the same opinion??
I just don't get it! :O
People do run them.
You seem to be looking for groups of people that sit there grinding anoms continuously for hours every day. That's the part that doesn't really happen, at least not outside of renters or multiboxed carriers. People who spend that much time generating ISK from PvE activities generally have dedicated alts, often outside the coalition, for doing so. As others have said, there's much better ways.
Anoms are something I undock for to get some quick liquid ISK when I have nothing better to do. Maybe I log in while drinking my morning coffee, run one anom, then go to work. Or rat with one character while I run around looking for engageable targets with the other, or out in a TiDi fleet.
If people did not run them at all, the system's military index would be at 0 and there would be only one or two anoms in system. But military 5 and the presence of 20+ anoms does not mean you should expect to find 10 people there actively doing PvE content at all times. The income per hour would have to about double to get some of the ISK making alts from elsewhere to move back to null, but that would break the faucet game.
Here is how this ties so closely into renting.
There is member income, corporation income, and alliance income.
The Alliance needs income to pay for sov bills, upgrades and SRP.
The majority of null space is crap value to the line member. These are combat focused pilots here to take and defend space. The income they can make here in downtime, using those skills, sucks compared to the rest of eve. So a substantial part of line member income ends up in the form of alts and is not effectively taxable by the corp or alliance.
The value of the space comes from the natural resources. So the most valuable ones (moons) get taken by the alliance to pay for these expenses. The space deemed useless to line members is then rented to people willing to pay for it as a further source of income, because why not?
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