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Posted - 2014.04.11 15:42:00 -
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Knight Solitaire wrote:Planetary Conquest.
Conquest
Working as intended. (Passive ISK Farming is the only thing that needs to go)
TL;DR - No
That assumes that the system is set up for someone to actually be able to take every district.
What I mean by the statement above is that New Eden seems particular designed to largely resist one group from having a stranglehold on all of the assets. In EVE, there are enough avenues for player error - greed, timers, jump gates, sandbox - for one group to spark a change, at least some of the time. And just by what is possible in EVE, there is no way that one alliance would own every asset in Null sec (And I mean own almost all of the unique assets, not "Goons own the Moons").
The problem with PC is that the end game was actually "beaten". And the mechanics of DUST/PC can't cope with one alliance owning everything. In a system designed to encourage cost/benefit analysis, how does one side win when their opponent has only benefits? There is no feasible situation for a corp that is not in PC to have a realistic chance of holding - not acquiring - a district for the simple reason that they would not have enough money.
- Passive ISK farming needs to go
- More logistical pressure needs to be put on corps (AI drones that cut into clone reserves if not managed, for example)
- Political infrastructure - district trading, share buying, etc - needs to be implemented
- Timer system need to be reworked (There is not enough flux or chaos in the system at the moment)
I could go on, but you get the point.
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Posted - 2014.04.11 16:14:00 -
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dent 308 wrote:These guys formed an alliance of corps that had demonstrated the ability to take and hold districts.
What sort of mechanic would you propose that could counter this without just destroying the whole point of kicking more ass and taking more stuff?
Anything that requires more man-power to be deployed to maintain the current system.
For example, if each planet had rouge drones that activated their own PC battle (During the down time of a district), corps would have to spend much more time actually fighting off the drones to protect their districts.
This would require an enormous amount of man power at any given moment, which no alliance would be able to maintain. As a result, corps/alliances would downsize so that the losses incurred by a loss to drones would not be unmanageable.
There would need to be some system in place to discourage the big blue doughnut, but I don't know what that is
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