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Heathen Bastard
The Bastard Brigade
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Posted - 2014.02.11 01:11:00 -
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I would actually like to see manufacturing be a thing for dust mercs. Not talking like having us building titans or anything, like having us make our own guns and vehicles on a small scale. But first we need a market.
OH! and that titan building thing you guys do. Maybe some kind of game mode where the mercs have to sabotage/steal the materials from a shipyard that can be instigated quietly(like from one of those fancy black-ops ships) with a minimal number of clones(like a sqaud or two). if the ship or clones are spotted, then the owner of the station gets an alert, if it goes off without a hitch, then they just log in to missing parts. if the clones or ship are spotted, several defensive gates get put in place that have to be either hacked or blasted open, and automated defenses(small turrets) are activated and they can hire their own mercs to fight.
If you hear the words "WORTH IT!" look about, something hilarious just happened.
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Heathen Bastard
The Bastard Brigade
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Posted - 2014.02.11 05:33:00 -
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In the end, it's not about one side being better than the other, it's just that there needs to be some kind of symbiosis between capsuleers and mercs. We don't steal their ships, they don't start exploding planets with titan bombardments.
And yes, we do provide the raw labor part of the economy, the labor is killing things and hacking stuff. They need to implement the "new eden feel" into it as well, that fundamental feeling of "can I trust this guy or am I going to end up shivved and stuck behind enemy lines in nullsec with titans being hotdropped on my ass". That well, sabotage. Entire wars have been won and lost based on single ships getting destroyed because they got separated from their escort, or entire alliances collapsing due to a single poorly timed logistical failure.
We could be that logistical failure. Imagine a titan pilot trying to get back to his safety bubble only to find that some punk mercs shut it off only moments before? That kind of crap would make headlines! The QQ would be enormous! Imagine the kind of pay you could rake in for (in the idea I posted earlier) robbing a shipyard blind. Hell, imagine the demand for work from EVE since they'd be getting a direct benefit from it.
If you hear the words "WORTH IT!" look about, something hilarious just happened.
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Heathen Bastard
The Bastard Brigade
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Posted - 2014.02.11 06:37:00 -
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as far as I understand it, EVE's combat is so alpha focused that anything short of "Major combat" involving massive amounts of ships that damn near break the servers tends to end within minutes. it'd be tough to put out a contract, get mercs, and load them in in that amount of time.
But then again, all I've ever done is trial accounts and single combat when I either had the drop on them or massively outgunned them, and had the drop on them. at least in the small ship game, it's not necessarily about "sustainable" dps, it's all about being able to punch them into the foorboards on your first volley, before they can activate any of their modules.
If you hear the words "WORTH IT!" look about, something hilarious just happened.
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