BruisedMoon
Amarr
Power Seed Enterprises
VENOM Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.23 21:46:00 -
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 Originally by: Highwind Cid
As is currently, holding 0.0 is favored by defense, as opposed to offense. What needs to be done is the opposite, make it so that being offensive favors held space. It's like 'campers' in a RTS game. All they do is sit at there base and for the most part, easily camp there position. It shouldn't be easier to defend than attack, in fact it should be the opposite. This would cause more chaos, wouldn't let people chill out and make titans like cookies, and promote pvp better. Naturally with making it more difficult to hold space, increase the rewards.
Ahh, I lawled when I read this.. and to be fair, I am going to try to explain why I think your completely and utterly wrong.
What your saying, is that attacking other peoples systems would promote keeping your own systems? In some terms a best offense is a good defense, however in this case I dont feel thats correct.
You have to have a fine balance between offense and defense. First and formost, you have to understand when dealing with any alliance or corp worth its sault, if you take a roaming gang out and hit them hard.. you can expect them to return the favor. This is where offense is important for defense.
However staying gone from yoru space all the time and being completely offensive is very bad, your just going to end up loosing your space while your not there.
The problem with alot of the smaller alliances, is they move into 0.0 space, and think.. ohh lets just shoot everyone! So they see targets in local mobilize and good shoot them, instead of thinking it through..
Before you even move into 0.0 you should already have done several days of research in the area (enter covert ops) talking to surrounding alliances and corps and tried to get a few of them set blue to you.
The more blue the less targets yes, but the more blue the easier you are going to have trying to keep and hold space.
Taking 0.0 space and keeping it, is not necessarily as much about blobs, caps, and numbers as much as it is about having someone who is a smooth talker and thinks with something besides their targeting reticule. |