Dharmic Vision
Caldari
Ghost Festival
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Posted - 2008.08.29 01:43:00 -
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Personally, I would welcome these changes, but only if any rare mineral moons were added at the ass-end of the new regions, to make them a challenge for a single entity to control. Right now, my understanding is that these are the targets of war-- which is great, gives market incentive to fight, but the short distances quoted by Malcanis make it too easy to establish and maintain control of them.
For NPC goods such as Robotics, why not add an upgrade platform available for Outposts to allow production of these goods? Hell, you could add this as a rare BPC drop from exploration plexes or officers or something. You could add another outpost upgrade drop that allows for limited skill production-- remember, these aren't actually books but things you stick into your capsuleer implants and passively absorb. Someone's gonna crack this system and figure out how to create bootleg copies. But only a certain number per day, or one category at a time, or both. Would help ease the need to hop back and forth and make Outpost upgrades meaningful.
One thing to keep in mind is that expanding Eve in this way would inevitably affect mineral and component availability throughout New Eden. If a significant proportion of players moves out to take advantage of the new regions, removing them from the local economy will have its impact on highsec. The challenges of populating such an area would particularly bleed off people interested in logistical challenges, perhaps impacting the ability of more local organizations to maintain their own moon mining operations. If you separate the markets by distance, there WOULD be other effects just from the exodus of people.
I get the impression that not too many people have memories stretching back past the last couple of weeks. What I'm reading here isn't a response to the CONCORD changes and stuff, it is an extension of concepts that Malcanis has posted on before in light of those changes.
To the guy accusing him of being in an npc corp, look at his employment record, lots of deep space and lowsec alliance work. He's in between employers now. I've often enjoyed reading his posts, they are usually well thought out.
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