Attak
Trioptimum
FREGE Alliance
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Posted - 2007.04.06 20:51:00 -
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I think the issue stems from one that was discussed back before Kali became a reality. This issue is that the new regions really weren't worked on at all before they were released. The systems were already all there, and so they added a few links to them and said "here, free space!".
Of course, the moons hadn't been seeded.
The roids were and still are broken.
There were no complexes, and no exploration sights worth talking about.
The distribution gave some alliances huge advantages over others in exploiting the space.
The rats were extremely underdeveloped. Basicly copy-pasted versions of the ones that had been in high sec complexes.
But more systems = content, right? Fine, we said. We'll go there anyway. They've got to fix them eventually, right?
But there's very fundamental things wrong with these regions, that have been wrong with them since they arrived. Simple things too, like roids being bugged. Mining is one of the main professions that people do in this game, and it is completely unviable. That is absurd, completely and utterly.
So what are the alternatives? Well, we can rat. This is fine, ratting is pretty straight forward, and for the most part the rats up here die and yield loot like they should. Only the loot they dropped has saturated the market so much it's made battleship drops worth 1-1.5 in many cases, rather than the 3-4 that they used to be. And unlike other regions, ratters cannot strike it rich by finding a hauler with several thousand zyd, or a faction spawn. So ratting becomes a low-income, logistical pain in the ass.
Maybe we can do exploration! It's a new system that was introduced, mini professions ftw! Oh wait no, it's broken. It's like ratting/mining, only you get to wait an hour to find your warp in point.
POS mining? Well, at least we got our moons seeded. Mostly. Anyone who says multiple 60+ moon systems without a SINGLE metal in them is a good framework for a POS network obviously has never run one. Ok, thats out.
No static complexes, forget that.
Production, we can do that! Once we spend 20 bil on an outpost. But that aside, it's possible. Only we have no low end minerals... we can't mine them, we can't rat for them (I got 150k zyd and 900k trit from a refine of rat loot. Tell me those ratios aren't screwed up). So we get to do more logistics to haul up trit/pyerite.
So what do we have left? Underdeveloped systems, bugged or unbalanced resources, and little for solo pvpers to use (ie no isk infusions).
Tell me please, where is the upside to this? Shouldn't there be a trade-off? Can we at least get some of the bugged stuff fixed?
No. The fact of the matter is that the developers are busy fixing the other things they put in the game too early (invention anyone?) and working on letting you walk around in stations doing emotes at people.
Yes, the above is all a giant, long, fat whine. And I dare anyone to refute any of it. My mining account is cancelled because it's useless up there, and my main makes isk in a pocket of 0.0 with rats that don't crash their own market value.
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