Praleon
Gallente
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2008.08.22 23:10:00 -
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Problem: Level 4 missions provide large sums of wealth, and someone doesn't like it.
Why: Someone wants more PVP action, and would rather those who earn large sums of money be put in peril.
Why: So he can destroy them and take their things rather than them continually get things forever.
This cannot be solved with the current implementation of EVE. Removal of level 4 missions would significantly destroy the chief revenue of a large number of players. People would have to mine again. Mining is boring, and they will quit. Whereas now, someone can lose a ship in PVP and replace it with a couple hours of mission running, in the proposed future you make, people would have to mine for many, many hours to replace losses.
This would only lead to less PVP in the long run.
If you want more PVP, the PVP must be made differently, from the ground up. High SP + T2 modules are nigh-insurmountable on a 1 vs 1 basis for someone who can either just barely fit T2, or must rely on named. Check your DPS, Range, and Effective HP capacities in EFT.
There must be a way to find competition near a hi-sec person's level, or, no easily campable chokepoints into 0.0, if you want more people to fight PVP. As it stands, the path of "getting into PVP effectively" takes months and months of training, OR, large numbers of people.
Not only do people lose ships and ISK in EVE, but for many players, the time loss is problematic. This could be addressed as well, to facilitate moving out of hi-sec.
If and when there is incentive to come out and fight balanced PVP, people will do so. Until then, it's blob vs. blob for 0.0.
I, myself, am not a hi-sec life person. You won't find a single empire standing above 4 on my character sheet, nor will you find a bunch of industrial mining skills.
I only post this to counter the assertion that level 4 missions should be moved out into lowsec, as I think this would just cause a bunch of people to either A) Quit EVE, or B) still never leave hi-sec.
Praleon
CEO
Judgement Klan Corporation
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