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Posted - 2012.11.13 15:27:00 -
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What a weird thread. EVE players don't care because you can't actually affect the EVE game at all. No surprise there.
The way things are going to work, Dust ownership of planets will be able to influence stuff. You won't be able to prevent Planetary Interaction fro happening. CCP merely talked about making it cost more for EVE players to move stuff from rocket pads to customs. That'd be a bit annoying, but hardly the end of the world.
Anyway, it's not something to worry about right now. This thing'll be in beta for many months to come. Nullsec, the actual player-controlled space part of EVE, is going to be coming a while even after release. Until that happens -- and hell, maybe even then -- you won't be able to impact EVE significantly and thus, nobody will really care. |
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Posted - 2012.11.13 15:58:00 -
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Cody Sietz wrote:It kind of went off topic from what I was asking. I just wanted to know if you could not be part of a corp and still flourish. Also, would there be a need for such mercs?
Yeah, those other guys got carried away.
To answer your question, we'd need to know how contracts will work a year from now. Right now the answer is obviously "no", as you wouldn't be able to get involved at all being unaffiliated. Maybe they'll change it one day. CCP hasn't been very forthcoming about their plans, as I imagine they're still hammering them out while they fix the half-game they are currently working with.
But, if one day they were to allow it, you probably still wouldn't get much business as a lone guy. You'd need to at the very least a) be recognized as "good" at whatever you do, and b) be friends/trusted by whoever you're working with. The problem with just picking up any old assholes to be fighters for you is that you have no idea their true intentions. EVE is rife with spies. You wouldn't want to hire Joe Blow the solo merc when he could actually be working for the people you're paying him to go up against, and the whole battle he's conveying your team's strategy and deployment to the enemy while purposefully missing shots and so forth.
So no, you probably wouldn't be able to prosper. You might not even be able to reliably participate. But if you're very good, then your chances would improve. Again, though, this is assuming you're able to get involved at all. |
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Cross Atu wrote:Null Sec D514 planetary control will effect not only PI but have its own Sov system, thus enabling friendly Corps (in EVE or Dust) to impact the benefits of control in Null (i.e. you gain extra bonuses if system and plant Sov are friendly to each other). There's even some talk of this eventually going the other direction as well and making it harder to control an area if not friendly. But even without a system for that having hostile forces on your doorstep at all times (even if it's ground to orbit) is going to be something worth taking notice of.
The thing to remember with sov being affected is that it's merely made harder or easier. You still won't be taking any systems without fleets being involved. How much of a nuisance or a benefit Dust activities will be to such things remains to be seen, but Dust alone won't be taking any systems from people, or stopping any systems from being taken.
Reav Hannari wrote:If you look on Duality (or was it Singularity) and you'll see that system control will be influenced by DUST battles. For faction warfare.
Those stories you hear about EVE, the big battles, they're not stories that are told about people involved in Faction Warfare. But the real bottom line with that is that it's out of the hands of EVE players. They don't pay you to do FW, they don't have any control over it. It just happens. So even if you're talking about people who are concerned about such things, it will be as the coming and going of the tides. |
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