Dracvlad
Taishi Combine
Second-Dawn
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Posted - 2016.01.09 14:10:03 -
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I think you have hit the nail on the head on one of the issues with Eve.
In 2011 the alliance I was in found a niche and took 4 poor systems and renting them from Atlas at a cheap price in Querious, we had a great time pretending to be renters next to other renter types and killed a lot of stuff. Then the alliance that took over Atlas space came all greedy on us and we left to do something else. At that point it was only possible to do such things under the cover of the major entities and the fun was kicking people who roamed into what was our prime time late AU TZ.
In 2009 say what you want about the POS sov system it created some epic fights such as the IRC / ED fight against RA.
The fun part about that period was that the Goons were the first to start camping us, but we made it too tough for them so they went after Krysis instead, they did send two Au TZ alliances to go after our sov space and we managed to win by getting help from the dying remnents of Morsus Mihi, great times and the most fun I have had in Eve, defending rubbish space that we wanted, the two Goon aligned alliances even begged us for an organised fight which I refused, our fight was to defend our space and not some bull honour fight.
However it also became apparant to me that with the ease of infiltration that a small entity was pretty much in an impossible situation, add to that cloaking camping and the total dominance of capital swarms there was no way that we could hold or take space, most of us just played at it around the periphery or joined groups that held space and walked when they got the attention of the more predatory groups who could just take the space without breaking sweat. It became too difficult that you would be the turkey in the turkey shoot. So why bother?
My last period in Eve was fun in that I was killing mission runners in Stain of the Soviet Union, but it was hollow, not fun and got samey.
If I could get back to what I saw in 2011 then I would however there are predatory alliances that will just come in with their spy accounts then hell camp you, I guess I am waiting for them to die, and while I see signs that the Goons are dying, PL is not sadly.
CCP have not given enough tools for small alliances to keep a toehold against those entities, while that is the case expect us not to bother, and I repeat myself from another thread, a structure that can be cloaked that enables a player to stay in his own space regardless of his enemy destroying his main structures, CCP nerfed logistics so much for us little guys that the thought of moving around blocks me before I even start, so the idea to safeguard assets does not quite get there either...
Ella's Snack bar. The Hisec sandbox is basically a themepark for gankers
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