DigitalCommunist
Obsidian Core
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Posted - 2008.09.24 18:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Re Mi
1. There is less and less space for small, medium and even large sized operators to live in. NPC space has been claimed for a while now, and sovereign space is in near total lockdown. Increasingly, there is no way to get access to 0.0 resources outside of pet status. It is now nearly impossible to get enough resources to get an equal footing to major 0.0 powers.
You're wrong, getting access to 0.0 is pretty easy. Besides NPC stations, you can also hug the constellations near empire.
Contesting space is another matter, and on that you can blame political power blocs and easy logistics. Besides, the deal some "pets" get is often better than what the holding powers go through.
Originally by: Re Mi
2. Anyone with a huge amount of resources can get all of their cap ship pilots into a cap ship and field spares when ships are lost. They will always win in a war of attrition. Those people who do not have dysprosium moons or dozens of T2 BPO will never be able to compete, even if they have equal or better skill in combat and a strong defensive position. Eventually they will die.
Wrong. First: How often do high end moons or T2 bpos result in a rich membership? Second: Even if you do replace dreads free of charge, you can't get them killed constantly and still have people show up to fleets.
How much money you have might extend your stay, but at the end of the day wars are almost never decided by money. If you terrorize, demoralize and violate somebody long enough, while providing options to get out of the situation on favorable terms, they will take it.
Originally by: Re Mi
3. The resources sustain the cap fleets, and the cap fleets sustain the resources. We now have a situation where 0.0 is a closed loop. The longer this goes on, the worse the situation will be, with power interests becoming entrenched and at some point, unmovable even with overwhelming force and numbers because they can sustain nearly unlimited losses. It is one thing to engage in a war where you may die, it is something else to engage in a war where the only possible result is certain death.
What? Most alliances buy their resources from empire. A single day alliance op to mine for strontium can yield enough to field dreads for a year. I don't see this closed loop because fielding capitals has almost nothing to do with resources, and everything to do with logistics, organization and trust in leadership.
Originally by: Re Mi
4. The space in 0.0 is no longer a part of EvE Online for 90% of players. etc etc..
Yes, 0.0 isn't part of gameplay for a lot of people. 90% is wrong, maybe 60% at most. That has nothing to do with 0.0, and everything to do with it being optional. People aren't going to do the work and take the risk when they don't have to. The single largest driving force in this game is character advancement. People are more interested in getting isk and new toys to play with than becoming FCs, saboteurs and megalomaniacs.
Your end is nigh speech could use some work, because its based on false assumptions and nonsense. If there are any issues with 0.0 it is the following:
- logistics and travel is too easy
- the resources of 0.0 are irrelevant to the average player
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