Winter Archipelago
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Posted - 2014.10.15 14:54:00 -
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I use a bomber alt to do my nulsec hunting, so my response comes from the viewpoint of an individual pilot whose primary targets are miners, BC's, and BS's that are tanked against local damage types.
On the individual level, as I see it, it's largely meaningless. A single pilot cannot have enough of an impact on any one group to severely affect them (with a few exceptions, of which Cloaking in their system for a length of time is, though a decent person will barely even be affected by that if they know what they're doing). At the same time, an individual in a renter corp doesn't have enough matter in the grand scheme of things for their losses to matter.
However, even a small group can create a meaningful impact in a localized area, while larger groups can affect a region (look at PASTA as an example). There aren't enough large hunters to make much of an impact beyond that, though.
In the grand scheme of things, the ISK in nulsec is just too good, and there are too many renters and potential renters with too few predators to make a meaningful impact on a larger scale.
Generic Renter Corp may have five people lose a combined 15b in carriers this week to a roaming gang, but the month before, those same five people made a combined 25b ISK from it while their space was barely even noticed, will still be up 10b ISK this month, and when the roamers move on to their next target, those five people will make another 25b the next month, while the corp as a whole pulled in 100b+ for the month after loses and expenses.
Even when a system is being camped, passive forms of income such as station trading in the regional hub (if one exists) and PI can still produce a bit of profit (nothing quite like what they would be making while ratting, but they've hardly been reduced to having zero income), and if the players were wise, they would have jumpclones set up in Empire space to have something to do during a concentrated camping effort, essentially negating the efforts of the campers, to begin with.
So individually, no, there's no impact being made. Small groups can have a fairly decent impact in a localized area, but on the whole, they aren't able to really have a decisive presence to cause a lot of issues for the locals. There just aren't enough hunters to make a meaningful impact on a wide scale (even PASTA, with ~400 members, are largely only able to affect a small area, in the grand scheme of nulsec space).
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