Shadoo
North Eastern Swat
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2008.02.25 11:21:00 -
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OK -- I'm bored and will bite with a soap-box.
There's one thing that will not be a big contributor to the outcome of the war -- and that's isk.
Perhaps it might have been something to worry about 2 years ago, but with the eve economy as is and the plentyful opportunities to make isk in empire + null sec... There will always be enough isk to buy ship + T2 fitting and get it carrier lifted to the field at very little cost.
It's simply too easy to make isk for the average war participant to really matter in the outcome, no matter which side you're on.
You can afk-mission, trade, invent, manufacture, 0.0 rat, explore, etc and easily make enough to replace 2-3 BS losses per day. It takes about 10 minutes to carrier lift to delve 50 BSes from low sec empire where 2 alt freighters hauled them to for any alliance, even the smaller ones like us.
The thing that will decide the outcome is participation. The pool the coalition side atm has to draw from is significantly larger, thus thou noticable -- when 2-3 large parties go take a break for a week or two it doesn't really always effect the territorial outcome too much.
BoB + allies obviously have a much smaller base to draw from, but on the other hand they are fighting for their home where they've stocked up supplies to last them for a long time. They have less logistics to worry about and thus can use member base more efficiently. They can't really afford to go take a break however as an alliance... every time they do so -- they lose another piece of the island.
As long as the coalition side members who're taking a break -- do return refreshed... there really only can be one outcome. But one thing is for sure... BoB's fighting for it every inch of the way.
It really is a very interesting war to be part of, something to look back on for the time to come when hopefully such large multi-year drawn out wars will be in the history. I don't think anyone truly enjoys this type of gang-bang territorial warfare in EVE and hopefully DEVs are taking note to change the mechanics for the better eventually...
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