CCP Lingorm
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Posted - 2008.05.14 12:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Mr Horizontal
How can you say Empire isn't suffering from overcrowding?!?! There are a ton and a half of problems relating to overcrowding in EVE at the moment! At a very rough estimate I think the EVE galaxy needs to grow by about 25% more space! It's not just about how many people actually live in the space per se, it's about the distribution of resources as well as the population of the systems. Security status and resources dictates whether people actually live in the systems or not, not the actual space itself. So if you're worried about Kador being underpopulated, then boost its resources to make it more useful space.
Resource changes don't need to mean more belts and other faucets. Even a simple sec status change to 0.3 means a system will be instacamped by reactor POS's, for example. There are a huge array of dynamics that can make or break a system and by effect of this a whole region.
Either way, the Jita problem does rear its ugly head and will continue to do so because the distribution of resources and the Network Effect affecting it will not change it's dynamics. You will always get a hub of some form or another, however, even if it moves away from Jita.
Regarding the new Black Rise region in the middle of Empire was an interesting move but a weird one. I was expecting the current lowsecs like Aridia, Derelik and Kador to move into the inner 0.0 and those regions to gain high sec status. Then introduce new 0.0 regions on the outskirts to counterbalance the space that has been taken by the new lowsec regions.
Yes it's a big change, uprooting many installations in lowsec and alliances away from their homesteads in inner 0.0 but RP-wise it's a logical progression. The Empires have finished securing the lowsec space, and the new lowsec frontier has been pushed outwards, and the 0.0 wildlands even further outwards.
Thus Empire becomes bigger, the lowsec band between Empire and 0.0 remains and 0.0 just moves out, and the net effect is the galactic circle as a whole becomes bigger in radius.
Certain Systems in Empire are certainly overcrowded, but on the whole Empire itself is not heavily populated. Before we add more space we would prefer to look at options that allow alliances to make better use of their space (give incentives for claiming less space) and to spread the population of empire over more systems.
While not ruling out adding more systems later we do not see it as a short-term solution.
Some of the options that have been looked at to 'move people' are Agent Quality degrades depending on use. Adding more agents. Having agents that move. Nothing has been decided but we are still looking at the issue.
CCP Lingorm
CCP Quality Assurance
QA Engineering Team Leader
Originally by: Lord Fitz
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