Scotsman Howard
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Posted - 2016.06.24 18:02:03 -
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Gunrunner1775 wrote:THE BIGGER PICTURE
ok, was haveing a discussion with friend this morning and resulted in interesting line of thought reguarding the mining barges
As stated in a dev post some were (dont recall exact word for word) the big wars.. the one that resultedin B-R big massive fight... the "world war bee" thats been going on since january.. these types of things bring in the paying customers. the players... even players that have stopped playing come back
what promotes these wars... i do belive there was a comment that stated that after these wars.. things got quiet.. stagnated.. very quiet as forces sliped back into their corners to lick their wounds and rebuild forces...
these big wars are fought with ships, lots and lots of ships...
miners mine ore.. industrialists make ships... big wars are fought, ships blow up
how do we promote more of these conflicts and such.... get more ships into game
beef up miners... increase the supply.. make ships cheaper.. easier to make... get more ships into the field.. promote big wars.. bring in the players and more subscirptions..
along this line of thought however.. other things were discussed ..
now gotta get into the economics.. amount of cash in circulation... supply demand profit margins ect... that adds an entirely new set of mathamatical equations.
miners wont mine unless they are makeing a profit.. and wont make ships unless its profitable...
Alot more to look at for me it seems then just how much a ship can tank or how much M3 it mines per cycle or how much M3 it mines in an hour
Sorry, cheaper ships will not promote the big wars like you think. If you increase the amount of ore, you decrease the price, decrease the price decrease the number of miners will to mine, decrease the number of miners, increase the cost of ore, etc.
People will only mine for X amount of profit. Anything you do will change that but the main point is the system balances itself.
Anyways, assuming the T1 market tumbled and ships got cheaper, it would not promote the big null wars you are after. The main question has not been answered and that is "Why should I go take someone elses SOV?" WWB had a sort of herd mentality for everyone going to fight the goons. It was not about SOV as much as taking things from Goons. Aside from location, there is really no reason one SOV area is better than another.
There needs to be a reason to fight and people will fight. Cheaper ships will not cause wars.
As for the thread, my guess is CCP is going to mess with the tank of the skiffs making them far easier to gank because "reasons" or make them so bad at mining it is not worth it to mine at all when you consider gank costs vs additional yield.
Maybe they will go the other way and make a "Mordus Legion" like balance pass of the exhumers lol. |