Rab
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Posted - 2007.04.08 14:42:00 -
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If CCP really have to admit their system can not cope with more than x people at one time using agents in the same region, system or node (50, 200, or 500, whatever it is) Then they have 2 choices:
1. Distribute numbers based on actual usage so that if theres 5000 people wanting to use the agent types in that node then you stick 5000/x agents available across different regions, nodes or systems of equivalent quality. Adjustment every 3-6 months according to actual data maybe? If caldari really do get 50% of the mission runners then give them 50% of the agents. They arent going to swap to minmatar, evidently.
2. Try and bully those or all mission runners into doing something else other than missions (for myriad reasons ranging from 'isk faucet' to 'they are anti-social' to 'its not how the game was intended', or any other spurious reason not to like them, choose whatever reason for getting in someone elses game here*)
Most the low sec options involve the latter, Force risk, force pvp, force force force those carebears to change. If the problem is that 0.0 is enormously empty and empire is full, smart money says you should get your sec status paintbrush out and repaint a few of those red dots useful colours.
If however, CCP want to state categorically that mission running is not what they intended from their game and its ruining their vision of pvp space utopia, then please just say it, and let the swarms of people that enjoy missions only to find another game and enjoy your smaller profit but artistically more ideal universe.
Or you can find a happy medium whereby you can accept that the subscriptions from mission runners actually pay for other benefits like more staff and more servers and that mission runners pay for their space as much as anyone else. If someone chooses to spend that subscription mission running then they have as much right to mission space as a pvper has to pvp space.
(albeit fleet battles are the same problem in reverse, to perhaps a more extreme level as 5000v5000 fleets will be here sometime the moment servers allow 4000v4000 battles.)
Accommodate mission runners properly or tell them to walk the walk. cramming them into 25% of space and squeezing isn't working.
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