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Spurty
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.08.22 02:01:00 -
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All these Whines coming from sour grapes yield a very sour tasting drink.
Not that I'm saying your post has no merit, it seems logical enough. It just wont work as its lopsided.
First off, if *all* level 4 agents were in low sec, most people would just run level 3s in high sec and moan about their lost level 4 missions. Caldari navy raven prices would plummet.
Its not possible to coerce people into low sec like this unless the reward for level 4s is 10x what it currently is.
Why? The mission runners would need to be assured they can replace their ship + mods for every mission they run as it might well be the last mission that ship ever sees as pirates gank it. Thats if the ship even sees one mission all the way through.
A solo mission runner with a full room of agro only needs a pirate in any HAC to tackle him and he'll die in low sec. The pirate in the HAC only needs to jam the mission runner and hold him while the rats kill him.
Here is where the risk involved doesn't warrant the reward of flying missions in low sec. The pirate gets a free kill mail to wave for doing pretty much nothing more than scanning out a mission runner and hitting him with ECM. Killing mission runners in a lowsec mission any other way is just making your life hard.
It takes far too long to run level 4s solo and splitting it with gang members to speed up the mission to get to safety means you cut your bounties.
Level 4s don't have the reward you think they have and putting them in low sec, will need to adjust so far as to make most mission runners gazzillionaires until enough pirates exist to cull them.
The system isn't great, but its not as easily fixed as saying 'risk vs reward'. The risk is that the rats do destroy ships, the reward is pretty low compared to that of say 'invention' or 'market trading'.
Man goes to the doc, with a strawberry growing out of his head. Doc says "I'll give you some cream to put on it." |
Spurty
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.09.02 18:13:00 -
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When I was running missions, I kept getting killed by some guy called 'Super Twinkey69'. He's now my FC.
Missions + low sec = negative wallet for the mission runner.
Missions in low sec, just completely awful experience.
Missions are a big part of EVE, rendering them moronic due to interference from other players breaks a bigger part of EVE than PVP sadly.
EVE would continue to exist if PVP vanished. However, if carebears vanished, EVE would rapidly dry up and die.
Its a dirty secret.
Man goes to the doc, with a strawberry growing out of his head. Doc says "I'll give you some cream to put on it." |
Spurty
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:56:00 -
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Remove all missions period and just have all mission runners receive a replacement ship + fittings + isk for ammo and medical insurance and implants everytime they die and they will go to 0.0.
Man goes to the doc, with a strawberry growing out of his head. Doc says "I'll give you some cream to put on it." |
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