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Kal'Kalagan
Minmatar Aggressive Tendencies Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2008.12.08 10:18:00 -
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Edited by: Kal''Kalagan on 08/12/2008 10:23:46 The answer is simple, remove jump bridges and the jump bridge ability of Titans. Traffic will re-appear in the pipes, more small gang warefare will take place. Alliance will be forced to reduce their space holdings if they want to effectively defend them. Small alliances will have a chance of remaining independant and warefare will gradually become inter-regional gain as oppssed to the 3 massive power blocks controlling pretty much everything.
Jump bridges and Titans have ruined a lot of good stuff in Eve thats for sure. . Combined with capital blobs skill is no longeer the major factor in Eve, its who can bring the most numbers - thats got to be wrong.
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Kal'Kalagan
Minmatar Aggressive Tendencies Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2008.12.08 11:02:00 -
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Back in the day we in Veritas had so many fights in the N-Rael to Scalding pipe with Red Alliance. We'd have travellers usning the pipe and so would they - they'd always be action there 24 hours a day in one form or another. The of course there were the freighter escorts which were always the catalysts for big fights and of course the plex's.
Nowdays everyone just jumps to whereever it is they need to go. No real risks involves at all. Jump Freighters and increasing carrier cargo bays to take BS's made it worse. If you want to fight you go to someones home systems and run the risk of getting blobbed, DD's, capital blobbed and probably all of the above. Small gangs have no chances in these situations and with little traffic in the pipes due to jump bridges its a fairly dull existance in most Eve regions.
If it wasnt for regiosn like Curse or Syndicate I'd probably have quit by now.
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Kal'Kalagan
Minmatar Aggressive Tendencies Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2008.12.08 14:13:00 -
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Edited by: Kal''Kalagan on 08/12/2008 14:15:23 Lets say for example that an alliance attacks Solar in Cache we all know damn well that thanks to he jumpbridge network the entire drone regions coaltion can be in Cache in several minutes coming from as far away as Colbalt Edge and then with the threat gone they can all be back home the same evening. Its wrong to be able to deploy huuge fleets over massive distances in practically no time.
Another example is when Veritas aided Fix as part of the Smashkill coalition in the drone regions. It took 12 minutes to get from BWF to Oasa. Thats a huge distance conventionally maybe over 40 jumps if I remember correctly, yet with the jump bridges we could go back and fourth between Germinate, Vale and any number of drone regions in no time. Likewise Solar could could get to Oasa from their bases in Cache in an equally quick time. This all leads to alliances/coalition holding massive areas of space because they can defend them by making use of quick fleet deployement via jump bridges.
Now I've got nothing against these huge coaltions inprinciple but if you removed the jumpbridges then the huge blobs woudlnt be able to form so quickly. We'd have smaller fights unless there was a major invasion and alliances would have to work a lot harder at defense - only right if you control a lot of space.
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Kal'Kalagan
Minmatar Aggressive Tendencies Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2008.12.08 14:19:00 -
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But that wasnt always Bob's philosophy, you usd to be elite. You are no longer elite thanks to everyone ability to field massive capital blobs. You've adapted as necessary as Eve has changed but Bob isnt the alliance it was 2 years ago and I suspect that many of the veterans miss what it once was.
No smack intended here you've merely changed and adapted as any good alliance needs to to survive.
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