Gemini Reynolds
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.03.30 02:43:00 -
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Alright, here is a continuation of what was discussed on IRC:
For those unaware, the question posed is, what does this system do for those corps that don't want land themselves, in particular, but still want to happily blow up and take the stuff of another corp?
There is the option of merc'ing out, yes. But no one is going to hire a no-name corp on faith alone, and there's always the chance that such a proposition does not suit some, or possibly even rankles to consider. There is also still the meta-game to keep in mind as well.
To put this in perspective, an example:
Player 1 is a CEO for X-Corp. X-Corp is relatively unknown, overall. One of the members of X-Corp gets into a troll/flame war on the forums with another player from Y-Corp. Player 1 decides "The hell with that" and decides to systematically destroy Y-Corp. He doesn't want their districts or land. He and X-Corp just want to smash Y-Corp.
There are several problems with the current system though (as clone counts, etc are not accounted for in the proposal, I will use the Dev-described system where applicable):
1) X-Corp, while having good players, is mostly unknown. So they will either depend on some other Corp being charitable and hiring them in order to earn enough coin to engage another corp in battle (buying clones, equipment, etc). This raises the question; how do they earn the currency prior to engaging in war in a self-sufficient manner?
2) A corp that maintains a district is going to, by virtue of district ownership, have a pool of clones to send in to battle. With the current system X-Corp would only have what they could purchase from the NPC's (one time) available to them. Attacking in this state, even victoriously, would be operating at a loss. This would make this style of game-play untenable.
3) Assuming the prior two problems are solved, and they are able to attack the district successfully and repeatedly until Y-Corp is removed from it; what do they do with it? As previously stated, they don't want to deal with the care, feeding and upkeep of a district.
This also brings to mind another question at the tail end: Were the system to support such a corp, how would another corp go about attacking them in kind? Or would the others be forced to resort to politicking and other meta-means to try and assault them?
I'll admit, this is an unusual position to ask from, but I believe that a system that supports varied playstyles, as Eve does, will in the end be a more successful sort. |