Straight Chillen
Gallente
Solar Wind
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Posted - 2008.12.22 19:57:00 -
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I think the biggest issues with 0.0 and power blocks are from the people on the outside looking in.
First I would say the biggest issue is that every up & comming corp and nupty alliance thinks they have some kind of god given right to own a chunk of 0.0, This is not so. You have to be willing to fight tooth and nail for it, To wake up for an alarm clock op at 4 am when uve got work at 6. To completly exhaust your resources and still press on. And even all that that wont guarentee success. To steal a quote, "no sacrifice, no victory"
Look at the established power blocks. They have fought with everything they have to gain control of their space. And you think what? you should beable to come and undo that in what a day? a week? 2 weeks time? They have fought for years to establish what they have, and it should be quite an undertaking to dislodge them.
Look at what happened to Bob & Co last year, They were pushed back into one region. They Went into an alamo style of fighting. The aggressors eventually got bored, and went home. BOB & their pets were removed from every other region they had. Had the coalition succeded in breaking their morale in delve, BoB would just be a part of EVE history today.
And i think most of the people have a great misconception that 0.0 powerblocks have trillions upon trillions laying about and just hand out ships by the hundreds to get blown up. That all the regular members can simply throw around isk like a footbal. This is simply not true.
You dont see the unsung heros of the alliances, The average members. Who do their part and X's up for gangs and CTA's. The guys who lose their BS and then have to go rat, mine or mission to replace it. Sure some of the old garde who have been playing since beta can lose hundreds of ships with out batting an eye. But they are not the average player in any alliance.
Also anyone who thinks that small gang roaming warfare is dead is a friggen idiot. Theirs always hostile gangs roaming around Established space, Killing ****. And as has been said a few time, theres nothing to stop a bunch of third rate alliances from simply banding together and pushing out another alliance.
The people who are calling for random redistribution of moon minerals are missing a huge point too. High end moons is truly the icing on the cake for any alliance. Its really the only profit that comes out of the entire bull**** that is the POS system. Randomizing the moon mins makes little to no sense from both a realistic and gameplay stand point. The impact it would have on the markets would be catastrophic & we would be back to the days of 90m isk cov ops cloaks and other retartedly expensive t2 mods.
If 0.0 is so stagnant (which i disagree) Then it is only due to human nature, Not because of POS or high end moons.
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