MrBadidea
Caldari
Definition of the End
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Posted - 2007.07.17 19:54:00 -
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I was going to form an Alliance to participate in this tournament.
I have the funding, and I know some peoples who would happily come along for the ride; if we won or not, it would have been seriously awesome for us to try it anyway.
However, all I've seen thus far has been a series of comical errors...
1. Increasing the size of the Arena, without allowing slingshot warps. This alone would have been most awesome. When I've watched the last couple of Tournaments on EVETV the image quality has been too crap to see what was going on with the health bars anyway, and they always annoyed me. What I WANT to see is a bunch of guys pulling seriously heavy hit'n'run tactics on the other team, which is pulling an ecm-turle whilst running around at maximum speed in an attempt to last long enough to not lose.
2. The Prizes. OK, giving away prizes capable of seriously impacting the politics that goes on between the 0.0 dewlling Alliances in EVE once again is wrong. However, it's too late to not do that again; you've already set the standard for what prizes should be, and now dropping them down to a level where even the winning team just barely walks away with making anything at all from the tournament... 
3. This whole factional allignment crap. What does it bring to the table bar reducing the entry costs? If we're going to get anything out of it/cost anything else, you'd better step up and decide just what it's going to mean to those participating. The fights are only a few weeks away now, and people are going to need time to get their money and their ships together ready to go, so you'd better be making the rules final, and fast.
4. Boosters. They cost nothing. Nip to jita, you can pick up standards for 10m a pop. I fail to understand why you would allow pirate implants (even IF losing them is reimburseable), yet dissallow 10m worth of boosters every fight. If you can afford the entry fee, and the ships, an extra 10m per pilot per fight is nothing.
I find it reprehensable that you can turn around and tell us that 18b is pretty much the cost of a Mothership. Yeah, ok, if your alliance is already that big that it already build motherships, AND has the infrastructure in place to do so, yeah you could get away with saying that. To most of us though, we're looking at:
11-14b of Minerals
4-5b for a Tower + Capital Construction gear
16b if we buy the BPO for the Mothership, 4-6b if we try and find a BPC
Probably around 12-14b if we buy all the capital component BPOs, 2-3b if we use BPCs
Plus fuel.
Plus freighters to move the components to the Tower once the components are build.
Plus the ships lost to (likely) defend said tower.
Plus the possibility the tower will be lost before the mothership is out of the oven.
If you want to give away a mothership, just do it. Motherships are that common these days that giving even a handful of them away would most likely do little to change the political landscape out in 0.0 at all, especially considering most of them are now going to be kept away from the front lines, and will most likely be turning up in lowsec more than they do in 0.0.
I'm siding with giving away a nicely (but not top-notch) mothership. I'm not talking Wyvern with Estamel hardeners here, but definately decent officer gear. It still wouldn't hold a candle to the ISK given away during the last tournament, but to any team outside of the big 3-4, that is a significantly large prize to warrant entry, without changing the political landscape much, if at all. I would, however, much rather see Unique ships as the prizes, but without using existing ships you can't accurately judge just how much cash you're giving away before they are in the hands of the winners, and the Auction threads are up :P
(PS. Give me a Corvus for being awesome plx!)
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