Lygos
ISS Navy Task Force
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2006.09.03 06:42:00 -
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I'm not so certain POS alone are making the game "boring." It's not like the game didn't have its dull moments before POS. If anything, we have less problems with people logging due to so many having something to lose. It is perhaps the way the players approach POS that makes it one dimensional. It's a reflection on the way we view other players.
Total annihilation should be expensive, and being thorough should be time consuming. I find this consistent within the framework of competition between impersonal corporations. What is always needed, however, are more options. Moon sabotage anyone?
Anything that encourages people to forge networks of interdependence fits right in with deployable structures. Anything that brings unknown parties into conflict, especially over profit, is good for politics. Desires are the only thing that is going change the way people react to situations and people, and a desire for trade is the only thing that is going to make people want to negotiate. Trade needs to become more important than npcs.
What you say about NBSI protocols and mercenaries being the only entities of interest seem to be closely related matters in my view. We have mercenary corporations, but we need more mercenary individuals. Fleet Commanders have to keep members busy to keep them intersted and remaining under directorates, but they need incentive from below to do things that have practical financial relevance to the members. This will be even more true if complexes and npcing were less of a political hinge. Something to increase operating overhead for individuals might get them focused on their private financial interests. Just giving anything grindable overhead costs, and watch people flood into p2p business. Right now we have many clan-like entities, but few causes for internal strife for many organizations. There is more internal division and stresses in up and coming organizations than in established ones, which is odd, and leads to political stagnation. A culture should be established in which corp leaders have to worry about the salaries of pilots they wish to retain.
Make pilots more dependent upon a network of immediate interests and less on a few cadres with powerful reputations and I think we will see more shifting allegiances, and widen the gaps for new entities to emerge.
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