Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2009.02.14 14:48:00 -
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Edited by: Lord Fitz on 14/02/2009 14:49:15
 Originally by: Joram McRory
Edited by: Joram McRory on 13/02/2009 18:08:05
Originally by: Paranoid MindZ
It will make this expansion another "large groups only expansion".
Was going to post something similar. As with all low and deep 0.0 assests, the major alliances move in and dominate it pushing the remaining 99.98% of Eve out and unable to access them.
I'm not sure where you are gtting your figures from. AFAIK CCP released stats last year saying that ~25% of charracters were in 0.0. I've been living in 0.0 for years and have met a lot of people. 2 Accounts is the norm, and a lot have more than that. For nearly everyone out in 0.0 there are 2 to 3 times as many empire alts in empire. So at least 50% of chracters belong to a 0.0 player.
I know where you're not getting your stats from, and that's not from CCP. NINE percent, that's 9% of the eve characters are in 0.0 space. That's players were logged in a snapshot. That means you're off by 41% and the poster you quote is only off by less than 9%.
That you could try and claim otherwise when in Jita you find more pilots than you can find spread across typically any 5 0.0 regions... well... madness. Just look at the players in space on the map. I've lived in 0.0 for many years and I can't see how you could logically claim this.
Of course I totally disagree with the other things those players were saying. It most certainly isn't a 0.0 players only expansion. One that is designed to get more people to take more risks, sure, but that's good for the game.
It's also going to help lowsec some as well ;) (that's where thirteen (13%) of people reside.). The other 76% of people (rounding) are in highsec. Quite clearly there are many more risk-adverse or casual players in highsec than there are in lowsec. The last patch was fairly involved in highsec with the Orca. There's nothing wrong with promoting lower security space, and in this case, it promotes small group colonisation of the space, not 'large groups only' given the mass limit will make it harder (though not impossible) for larger groups to hold this space. Taking and securing it will require more effort than simply dropping a capital fleet every time something gets attacked.
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