Kev Crow
Bragian Order
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.01.28 00:23:00 -
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Heinrich Jagerblitzen thank you for starting this thread, you definitely earned my vote. ( Not you, Hans did for yelling at you )
Mostly, I am an EVE player. For the past few months I have also been beta testing DUST and as the result I have been hired by a DUST corp to serve as their EVE liaison/diplomat. (This is my "Mr Nobody" alt of course)
We have been trying to encourage one of the militias and their leaders to experiment with us on sovereignty changes. (Some of the people who came to the table probably know your brother Hans: Elsebeth from EM, a couple of people from Iron Oxide and Wex Manchester from Late Night Alliance ;-)
When trying to create some kind of a plan that could convince them to work with us we have discovered that while mercs are excellent in making short term gains, when it comes to sustainable operations, we fall short. Let me explain:
The existing contract system doesn't have any way that could make our corp the default defender of a specific system. Of course, this being beta and all we know that such things will gradually improve, nevertheless the closer we analyze the question of incentives for hiring mercs the more frustrated and worried we have become.
As things stand, the LP farming corps will definitely not hire mercs, they don't need us, all they need is their alts in different militias. The loyalist corps are already entrenched in their "home" systems and generally speaking are not interested in capturing new systems for a short term global VP. Even with our effective help, any captured system has to be held in space and not necessarily on the ground - because as long as capturing planets is only optional, the only thing that the opposite militia fleet has to do is to simply ignore them and thus ignore DUST.
I am very happy about what Inferno did to FW and lowsec PVP in general, a lot of my veteran nullsec friends all moved to FW in search of real mayhem. Then again, if one considers the current state of FW ( or rather Farming Warefare ), DUST mercs could do a lot of good to encourage a more sustainable type of operations aimed at long term benefits to the militias and not just short term gains. The burning question is will they?
There are probably countless ways in which CCP could incentivise hiring a mercenary ground force by the militia, there is only one way FW and EVE will take real notice of DUST:
The link between both games has to change the way FW is being played. Any other kind of half-baked cautions approach will simply backfire.
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