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Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.04.03 14:43:00 -
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OMG!
That My Little Pony image made my day!  |
Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.04.03 14:45:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:I feel that many ideas are trying to cut the heads off a hydra and doing so only pisses the hydra off more and the very thing they are trying to prevent happens FAR faster than expected.
Yeah, beheading The Hydra rarely goes well.
Iron Wolf Saber wrote:Create a system that cannot be satisfied, cannot be completed and cannot be harmonized. Always hungering always starving and always being starved.
Fair point. |
Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.04.03 18:06:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:
If it where up to me, PC districts would be available 24/7 but designing means to make it viable to goto sleep at least (to account for some real life) is more of a conundrum than blue donuts.
Well, this is where OGCs (Ongoing Guard Contracts) come into play:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=583770#post583770
Allowing corps to contract with one or more corporations to provide defenders is a way to eliminate the need for reinforcement timers (or at least broaden the windows).
It is also a way for smaller corps with good diplomatic and managerial abilities (but not necessarily shooty skillz) to potentially hold districts against the big boys. |
Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.04.03 18:21:00 -
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trollsroyce wrote:
This principle does not belong to PC. It does not belong to New Eden. Things like stalling large corporations from dominating artificially only moves the said corporations into metagaming, which will be seen in the expanse of alt corporations used to gain more districts and utilize numbers better.
CCP should not cater to small corporations. Small corporations need to earn their place among the large alliances like they do in EVE. They can be renters, they can be mercenaries, they can utilize special guerrilla tactics to fight larger entities. Small corporations are not large corporations - they should never be artificially put in the same starting line.
This is the main drawback in PC at it's current iteration and glory. PC will make dust, and it will be brilliant. But trying to artificially limit large groups from utilizing their numbers is a very bad design choise, albeit it might not be the largest thing.
There is a big difference between artificially limiting larger groups and preventing the large groups from creating a Blue Donut (or NAP fest) in which there are few if any major shakeups in PC sovereignty.
Large corps (and alliances) should absolutely be able to take and hold a lot of territory.
The problem is that the PC mechanics (as they stand now) look like they will make it nigh-impossible for anyone who isn't one of the big corps to participate in PC except at the level of buying 100-packs of clones from Genolution.
At that point, it is likely that about five giant corps will control most, if not all, of the 250 districts. Those "Kaiju Corps" will likely, after a few months, decide that it is most beneficial for them to only fight over a few planets and they will sign "Non-Aggression Pacts" (NAPs) to that effect with the other Kaijus.
At that point, we have gone from 250 districts available for PC to (in effect) 20 or 30 districts that regularly change hands. Anyone who is not in a Kaiju Corp will never hold a district longer than a few days because they cannot possibly acquire the resources to hold it. This is simple math:
100 clones vs. 300 clones (from a nearby district)
This is a very real problem and it needs a solution. That solution should not prevent the Kaiju Corps from taking and holding WAY more territory than the little guys. But, if the little guys have no place in PC then there is not enough sandbox (at this point) for them to play anything but Instant Battles. |
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