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Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.01.11 22:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Kylania
Originally by: Cmdr Sy
Originally by: 0August0
Sort of puts paid to CCPs vision of getting more empire dwellers into lowsec.
What does ISS offer to Empire dwellers that a whole bunch of other alliances don't? Positive standings? Safe passage? Docking rights? Permission to anchor POS? Farming local NPCs? It's a standard package that can be obtained in a lot of places. No-one in Empire is losing an opportunity.
Empire dwellers will see that ISS, apparently a industrial concept where being neutral and accepting of others is what made 0.0 "safer", was destroyed by a group of other players for apparently no other reason than "we can". They'll realize that even if they were to come to 0.0 and build up something great everyone could share in, some bigger bully will just move in and destroy it all because "they can".
As long as 0.0 is mostly "everyone but us dies" Empire dwellers won't go there. It's not fun to lose your ship because some gangbanger decides you weren't blue. A lot of players don't want constant war and conflict, and right now that's all 0.0 offers unless you're not already in the big boy alliances. Nothing CCP has planned seems aimed at changing that, just making things more dangerous and costly in 0.0.
This thread should most likely be in general as its getting into more game vision than anything corporation related. Really I don't see what the big deal is. 0.0 is about getting shot at, shooting, getting resources, and building empires of a sort. You talk about empire dwellers but what you are really talking about are carebears. For carebears its not fun to lose your ship and they will stay in empire. Good for them, they don't have the mentality for a free-fire zone, and most likely just warped into a choke point in a raven without scouting. 0.0 is for players willing to take the risk for the big gain, yea it sucks to lose your ship, but if you couldn't then its not 0.0 its empire.
Basically what you are saying is you want empire like conditions in 0.0. Anyone is free to set up something like ISS in 0.0, and if all those mission runners got together they would have 1000's of pilots who could make any part of 0.0 safe for them, but what most of them want is someone ELSE to make it safe so they can make isk without risk. To heck with that.
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