Shiyou Hidiyoshi wrote:People have talked about this plenty of times before but there is one thing I have been thinking about and perhaps you Eve sru... "pros" can give your opinions on.
I am posting this in the war room because the war room loves their drama and if Eve being able to destroy transporting clones were to actually happen, PC might be in trouble... still... like always... forever...
Please read the whole thing before posting and make sure you understand it before stating your opinion.
This is what I am thinking
Example
Corp A has a very strong Eve side that has taken over the skies in Molden Heath.
Corp A has at most average players and has around 2 districts.
Corp A starts sending clones to attack weaker corps or same level corps. They can keep sending clones until they take the district.
Due to clones being transported by Eve, no one can get clones to attack any district corp A has because of their strong Eve side that destroys anyone clones that come their way.
So... won't corp A be safe 24/7 and not have to worry about losing anything at all?
Let's continue
Corp B is very strong and can beat most corps or go toe to toe with other strong corps.
Corp B has at most a weak Eve side
Corp B can easily destroy corp A on the ground but can't even get the fight because the clones keep getting destroyed by corp A's Eve side on the way to the district.
Corp A laughs as their districts are untouchable. Then corp A sends clones to corp B's district.
Corp B destroys corp A in the fight and corp A knows that they can't win on the ground. So corp A comes up with a new plan, hire corp C.
Corp C can go toe to toe with corp B and now works with/for corp A.
Corp A sends the clones, corp B can't stop the clones on Eve due to corp A's strong Eve presence.
Corp C then rings for corp A and loses to corp B.
They keep trying and trying until corp C wins the fight and the district is taken.
Still with me? No? Well to bad you sweet gorgeous babe.
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Let's see what could happen later down the road
Corp C works under corp A or joined corp A's alliance.
Corp A/C take over A LOT of land because they have the strong Eve side and corp C has a strong Dust side.
Corp A/C don't ever have to worry about timers, defenses, or low clones on a district because no one can get clones even close to them.
Speed things up and the result could lead to something like this.
One corp with a strong Eve side rules 100% and no one can even issue attacks because clones have to be transported and corp A's Eve side is too strong.
Corp A can even dump corp C after they take 100% because they don't need them anymore to take districts.
So someone like Cantrabanjoe and Faction Warfare Army, duna corp, Kalante's district, etc. could have the chance to rule 100% if they have a strong Eve side (names were just for an example please don't kill me for giving an example).
So... if everyone thought Cronos, EoN, and DNS are bad, lol imagine one corp having 100% without being able to even issue attacks against them.
I know I know DNS dur dur dur dur dur
Guess what cupcake, I'm just shooting spitballs here and DNS is just a group of former/still enemies working for a common goal until it is reached. Then we will probably go back to killing each other for fun.
If you think it is bad now, think about the future problems.
Funniest/worse case:
1 Dust player...
1 Dust player in his own corp in a very powerful Eve alliance.
That 1 Dust player could control 100% of Molden Heath... (hired ringers or kicked everyone out of the corp after all the fights are over and that player takes 100%)
My point is could Eve being in complete control of clone transportation make it so that everyone DNS, non DNS, anti-DNS, antianti-DNS be helpless and unable to ever even see a PC match? Won't it just completely make PC matches go away if it is just a space battle to transport clones? Everyone who is fighting DNS or in DNS or not even involved with the current events might be completely useless in the future if someone with a strong Eve side shows up.
Factors to consider
- If clones packs still exist at that stage in PC, do they have to be transported from somewhere to launch an attack? If not, then Eve transportation won't be big factor at all because people will just use clones packs only. If they have to be transported, then
- Corps that have no districts that want one... do they have to buy one or can they use a clone pack? If they can use a clone pack, how does it work for them? Transported from Amarr space or something??? or from the area where their Eve guys are???
- If Eve starts getting awesome benefits from having districts, do you think a very powerful Eve side will take interest and cause what I have typed out?
- Anyone who has actually read this far deserves a prize... too ******* bad, now get out.
I am too lazy to proof read very well and I know for a FACT that I left out some major points somewhere but... whatever. Pfff in the name of Roner "Yolo you *******"
Wrapping up, anyone else think that this could lead up to one ultimate doughnut that isn't a doughnut but actually one Dust player or corp ruling all of PC perfectly unchallenged? (If even possible on the Eve side considering that Molden Heath is nothing special to fight over from what I always hear everywhere, if true)
I feel like we're all aware of potential issues that this might bring in the future...