Juang Mao
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Posted - 2009.03.05 22:50:00 -
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Applaud CCP and lets not dwell on that which has past...
This whole situation is bad, has been dealt with responsibly by the deevs and staff, and on a complaint/petition numbers of 3 out of how many players? Its not hard to understand why it wasnt investigated as a major issue.
However, this issue has raised something that CCP has failed to deal with in the entire history of the game. The knock-on effect on markets supply and demand (prices) of removing such a large quantity of required production goods. This has not only led to the alliances controlling these high end goods to over price there produce, but in turn has sent the high end composite market into a spiral. This may not have as much effect on the bigger corporation, but as a snall production corp it has all but devasted our production. Alliance Only Tournaments. 0.0 Space control (sovreignty), Fleet Warfare, and so many more things we could all name it has become a game of big numbers.
This situation cannot be allowed to continue, without the end of an ingenious game.
I personally speak from experience as an ex-organiser of an events company we soon realised by having Uber Alliances, the background of our created world soon began to die as people no longer wanted to be 'one man in a crowd of thousands'. In other words, some wish to remain independant.
To put it another way, the world needs small to medium businesses in a 'real-world' economy, as any good economist would know. The Eve universe is no exception.
Its time for CCP to open up the moon mining and resources for more people - as the subscribers grow - so will demand. (incidentally this could be done easily and sensibly by using numbers in realtion to pos system sec status - i.e 0.0 Pos = max production, Pos in 0.1 = 90%, and so on and so forth until you get to 0.7 Pos = 20%. Yes some may say these numbers are too high - others will say too low - the numbers arent the issue. But this example would allow smaller producers to gain access to components (small amounts) without being ripped off by every alliance and market manipulator going.
It may also be time to finally review the skill book and market seeded BPO scams too. After a;;, its only been 3 and a half years since they said they fixed it. 
Personally i also wonder if this game is so well rigged to the Super-Alliances - hust how much of the isk is flying out as RMT - which only seems to be growing.
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