Crimsonjade
Zer0 ToLeRaNcE
Terror In The System
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Posted - 2007.05.23 08:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Yakia TovilToba
Sorry, i usually don't say fast "no" to proposals, but i have been thinking about this issue and i think there are good reasons to not expand eve.
a) A MMorg will lose it's charm if you don't meet people. Play Star Wars Galaxies and you will know what i mean, you can run around for half an hour and don't meet anyone. This causes a bad feeling of lonelyness and that the game is dead (which is not the case but as the playground is so big you get that impression).
Eve is far away from being that so far (except some 0.0 space in far apart from empire maybe where you make a lot of jumps till you see someone in local, exp. in the hours before dt) but expanding it would lead in that direction.
But the more important reason:
b) If you have little place to live, alliances will fight for it, try to expand their borders and get something, that is considered valuable because it's limited: space.
If you now expand it to a level where everyone has enough space there will be less tensions, border conflicts, jealosy for space etc. and this will affect the war-culture in a negative way. Space should remain limited so that people have a good reason to fight for it.
little in game back story for ya info
a) thats the way it used to be in eve. empire was full of people and 0.0 was pretty much empty. some places like far out Tenal hardly ever got visited,
was enjoyable and it never stopped us from socializing with others. not everything has to be said in local
b)allainces will fight for any reason. space, honor, because they are into Necro the theory that less tension will exist is just rubbish. i dont care how many jumps to my enemys territory. if i want to kill them ill send the baggage train with the tools of war
space is supposedly infinate,and always expanding . id like to see a doubling or more of systems. with jump drives and freighters war is becoming a constant in a small universe. adding systems would just buy people time to prepare for more WAR so we will prolly never see more space, just alot more smaller allainces with a smaller area they live in, as control of a large mostly unpopulated area isnt possible anymore
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