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Posted - 2012.01.21 09:11:00 -
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Mary Mercer wrote:It doesn't really matter if they are destroyed or not. You know how many people have assets in stations right now that they can not get out? Once you get kicked out of null sec, if the people who take over don't let you in to get your stuff, you're not getting it. All the stuff like that is taking up resources for nothing. You have a risk when you go to null sec of losing everything, that risk is already there. Just because it didn't actually pop, means nothing.
I have guys in my mains corp right now who are in highsec and they have carriers, other high value assets sitting in stations in null. They might as well be destroyed. Even those guys know they likely will never see or use them again.
To take a quote that is screamed at most people for trying to get more protection for miners built into the game, "There is no safe place in Eve."
I disagree, this view is altogether shortsighted; I had stuff in various systems in deep 0.0 that I knew was completely safe because I just had to wait long enough for a friendly force to take it over
Think about it: every region in Eve (with the exception of DC space) has changed hands in the past two years. I play the long game; my assets are not gone, i just cant get to them right now.
The way I would do station destruction would be as a self destruct button; the owning corporation's CEO pushes that button and a timer starts, 48 hours + however long it is until the next downtime, it appears in space just like a reinforcement timer, and it pauses if the station gets put into reinforced. It can be stopped at any time by the CEO or a director of the owning corporation.
If the timer ticks down to 0, the station is gone when the server comes back up; maybe the stuff is moved out of the station to the nearest NPC station like they talked about in the CSM, that way too many people wont be buthurt about losing their stuffs.
That way, you could leave the ground decimated if you were losing a war, leaving an empty region for the conquerors to deal with, or you could run a scorched earth campaign, just conquering opponent's systems for long enough to blow up their stations. That way running to an NPC space area and waiting for the war to blow over (a la -A-) could leave you coming back to an empty land. |