Originally by: Neesa Corrinne

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Originally by: Akita T

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The REASON why you can't small gang PvP is that there's no objective worth pursuing that can be accomplised by a small gang.
Generally speaking, of course. Exceptions exist, but only serve to confirm the rule.

So the only remaining (desirable) objective is to either destroy as many enemy ships as possible with as little losses as possible (blobbing on either side) or to capture territory (via, what a surprise, POS warfare, blobbing again).


So, no, it wasn't WTZ, it wasn't the JBs, it wasn't the accrual of wealth and skills, it wasn't any of the speed nerfs.
It's the complete and total lack of INCENTIVES to make people WANT to go out in lowsec/0.0 IN SPITE of the risks.
This way, the only people you are likely to ever encounter are people who are fully aware of the risks but came prepared, and are bored enough to easily camp, because there's nothing else they can possibly want to do.
Hence, BLOBS.

Give people SERIOUS incentives to enter the lowsec/0.0 belts, give people HUGE incentives to leave the relative safety (and soon, almost complete safety) of highsec, and you MIGHT just get enough people who AREN'T part of a huge powerbloc with an extensive intel network and having serious logistic capabilities, so you MIGHT actually encounter something other than blobs once in a while.

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For myself, and the members of the old BWL corp (Before CCP disbanded us), the thrill of the game was the fight. We didn't need any other reason to log on every night at the same time other than to saddle up and head into 0.0 for some killy killy.

Now, if we do this in most alliance's space, we will get a few jumps in and suddenly find a 50 man gang on top of us via jump bridge, and after the speed nerf (which I still contend is a necessary change) we won't have a snowballs chance in hell of escaping.

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