Anarich
Caldari
Perkone
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Posted - 2008.12.05 12:09:00 -
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Edited by: Anarich on 05/12/2008 12:09:46
Mining Ships are like wet tissue paper, that said I don't think any playing style should be nerfed out of existence, even though that has what has happened in the past. I like variety in gameplay. As long as any group is not too inconvenienced, why change a playstyle. First I think concord is too uber buff. They shouldn't always be able to pawn everything. And currently the high sec suicide gankers with -10 sec status aren't so widespread that they cannot be avoided. Kinda like cloaked ships were used to avoid concord in the past. I think that should still exist to an extent, like basically you could maybe sneak into high sec for small period of time and in that time there is a chance you will be detected.
Currently concord is this omnipresent, all knowing, all powerful force guarding high sec and I don't think it should be that way. Concord should be powerful, yes, but it should exist as individual ships with patrol routes that have to rely on intel to respond to a crime. And residents of a system should have to pay money like in taxes(sales, mining, mission) in order for concord to exist and vote on tax rates or elect representatives to run a system. The representative(major, etc.) can then decide how to tax the system and how to use the funds to buy and repair concord ships, gateguns, and creating laws, and other functions. There should be max tax rates of course. This can effectively create dynamic security systems.
Basically this will allow people to effect geography of space itself. If a local pirate gang wants to convert a high sec system to low sec all they need to do is destroy all the concord spawns in the system. This may take a few days for the higher sec systems(1.0) and can be further increased in difficulty by concord replacing itself due to taxes. This would result in pirates having other options. On the mining/mission running side, they can convert a low sec region to a high sec region by actively mining and mission running and engaging in market transactions. You can also temporarily have low sec ores in a high sec region due to this. If the balance is done correctly you would see an equal number of low sec regions appearing as you see high sec regions appearing.
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