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Helios Panala wrote:I feel the fact that null systems can only support limited numbers is intentional in order to create scarcity and conflict. Agents and missions copy/pasted over from HS & NPC null would ruin that.
Anoms don't create scarcity or much conflict. In fact, what you just posted was the thinking behind the move by CCP that created the current situation:
Quote:Expected consequences
Some alliances will immediately start wanting to look for better space
In the longer run, there'll be more conflicts going on, with more localized goals
Newer alliances will have an easier time getting a foothold in nullsec
Coalitions will be marginally less stable
Alliances will have to choose more carefully what space they develop, where their staging systems are, and so on (low truesec systems generally tend to be in strategically inconvenient places)
That was 4 years ago. Suffice it to say, that not onlt didn't work, it backfired completely.
The problem as I see it is that with Dominon, CCP took an existing thing ("cosmic anomalies") that were random, secondary sites (secondary to sing nature sites that require probes to find that is) and made them the CORE of the sov null sec income system. Anomalies were never designed for that, they were basically quick 'bite sized' content that players could find easily all across New Eden.
The results of using anomalies in this way have been mostly bad. Lots of raw isk stuffed into the economy, lots of imbalances (back before ccp nerfed it, tracking titans with scimitar remote link support could blap the then frig-less forsaken hubs so fast it as crazy, 500 million isk per hour) and as baltec mentions, the way anoms pay means that their relative value (and with them, the value of sov null) has declined over time.
While i've been skeptical of using missions as the core of the system upgrade scheme, Baltec is right, anomalies are horrible for the purpose. And I say this as someone who likes anomalies and runs them with Rattlesnakes to relax (well, relax as much as you can while watching local).
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