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Corvus Ravensong
Skyel Industries
Subspace Exploration Agency
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Posted - 2012.07.20 00:02:00 -
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As an Eve player, I'd love to see Dust mercs need hauled to the planets through Eve - another chance to reduce the power of my enemies when they come for what's mine.
As a Dust player, I think it would suck - force Dust players to travel through space and you'd might as well make lowsec and nullsec off limits to Dust players, Gate camps + troop transports = a LOT of dead mercs who never got to fight their battle.
As an Eve player, it's a bad idea for one very simple reason - do you REALLY want to allow the nullsec powerblocs to decide who in Dust fights where? |
Corvus Ravensong
Skyel Industries
Subspace Exploration Agency
179
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Posted - 2012.07.20 02:18:00 -
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Veigar, it already happens. Some of the powerblocks out in null are capable of nearly 100% ship interception through an entire constelation, mostly via controlling the jump gates.
I think the nullsec powerblocks already controll to much of New Eden, if they get to interdict Dust players who don't even get a chance to fight back, then why not just rename Dust to "Eve Coalition only fps"?
I'd love to be able to hunt down war barges in eve and intercept them before they drop - however I also understand that that puts WAY too much controll over Dust to people like Goonies and NC.
100 vs 100 fleet battles in orbit are already going to happen - you don't really think an Eve player is going to let you do orbital bombardment against the mercs he hired without putting up a fight do you? (If he does, he deserves to lose the planet) |
Corvus Ravensong
Skyel Industries
Subspace Exploration Agency
179
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Posted - 2012.07.20 02:42:00 -
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Veigar Mordekaiser wrote:Well considering I'm not an EVE veteran (I played for 3 months...) I don't really know what null-sec is like. But I do know that EVE players like tactics and the harsh and brutal environment that EVE provides. I don't know how strong Goonsquad and those other huge corps are, I just know the PvP videos on youtube of those corps are pretty cool :P I suppose it would have to be a feature that is somehow well balanced, but I think it would be cool to have this be a part of the game. Just being able to "warp" from station to station, planet to planet, and so on, would feel so.... dull. The travel in EVE is a very cool part of it if you ask me, makes the experience feel "fuller".
Well, if you look at the size of let's say the Cluster Fuq Coalition, you would see that putting a 10 man gatecamp on hundreds of gates at once is NOT outside their numerical capability. And you are talking about sending slow, poorly armed and armored transports through multiple jumps of what should be all camped gates - not to mention the thousand man fleet forming up at the gate into the destination system because the Merc contract was a trap by the spaceholders to pad their killboards with easy kills.
If you have a great idea that involves Eve, look long, look hard, and try to find every possible way someone could use it to farm, stat pad, or grief each other. Trust me, Eve's players didn't get a reputation for finding novel ways to screw one another by playing nice, or fair........ |
Corvus Ravensong
Skyel Industries
Subspace Exploration Agency
179
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Posted - 2012.07.20 03:43:00 -
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Still a bad idea, too easily exploited, and allows Eve players to limit Dust player's movements too much.
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