Originally by: Reshei

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The BoB Victory over ASCN is yet another indication of just how poerful that alliance is. When we think about the reasons for their victory the situation with the game and its future become potentially bleak and unappealing.

The main factor in BoB overcomming so many people, not just ASCN, is the fact that they have such a huge amount of money that it is frankly incomprehensible. Trillions of ISK are controlled by that alliance through their BPOs of tech 2 gear. Therefore, it is inevitable that they will overcome anyone that comes up against them. There is just no way that anyone else in the game can compete with that kind of raw financial might. It is raw financial might that won World War II and every other war that was ever fought. Patton was once quoted as saying "tactics win battles but LOGISTICS win wars". So are we looking at the takeover of the whole Eve world by one organization?

The problem with this is that there is no way for anyone to compete with BoB. No matter how hard someone works, it is impossible for them to get the kind of raw resources that BoB has and CONTINUES to compile. The main reason for this is the fact that BoB ownes so many tech 2 blueprints and makes so much money off of them that "winning the lottery" hardly covers it. The reality of the situation is that this aspect alone means that no one else can compete.

Lets face it. Invention is an utter flop. The promise of invention was that people that worked hard would be able to use invention and enter tech 2 production, thus driving down the price of tech 2 and the MONSTEROUS proffits the tech 2 BPO owners get. The reality is that the parts to do invention are so rare, difficult to get and once the last piece is actually seeded in the game in the complexes they will be camped 24/7 and likely by people like BoB.

Something radical needs to shift in the economy of eve or the alliance wars, the conflict, the politics of the game are going to vanish behind a fleet of 200 BOB carriers and Dreadnoughts and Titans.

Tech 2 blueprints have been the IDOCY of CCP. A policy that was il-concieved from the start and il-implemented. It is the most embarassing thing about Eve and the biggest threat to its survival. The implementation of invention is a PATHETIC attempt at resolving the problem.

I sugest CCP do the following:

1) Seed the Tech 2 BPOs on the market
2) Control the prices by controlling the rarity of the moon mined minerals and other parts that are needed to create the items.
3) Put a little raw and advanced materials in all T2 gear to create compeditive market that no one can control as anyone even in high sec could moon mine the mins.
4) Switch invention to find out the faction versions of ships and modules in order to compensate for not getting tech 2 BPCs.

If CCP doesnt get a handle on this sometime soon, Eve will eventually be Empire Space and BoB Space. People will be frustrated they cant get anywhere or build anthing. Alliances will disolve because they dont have the ABILITY to get the Trillions of ISK to compete and the game will lose its flavor of competition and thse competing.

Without massive and RAPID changes to the game, the chances of anyone small being able to do anything will be near 0. And when BoB has taken all of 0.0 we can expect millions of war decs so they can take the rest of eve.

Why am I posting on an alt? Simple. I dont want to incur the wrath of BoB either. One doesn't poke a stick in the foot of a giant that can crush you like an ant.

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