Skihids
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.06.10 16:35:00 -
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This might be possible for PC battles where there are 1-2 battles per district per day maximum, but you still don't have an appreciation for the shear level of activity and destruction that occurs in instant battles.
CCP has to instantiate as many districts as there are concurrent battles unless you want to remove the "Instant" from "Instant Battles". That's 218 districts for 7k active mercs. Let's then take 20 min Skirmish battles. Each battle would generate wreckage from one MCC, and perhaps a dozen vehicles, totaling 72 MCC and 864 vehicle hulks in one 24 hour period.
So let's assume you role the dice and you and your friend actually make it back to that district where you rammed the dropship with your LAV and you want to point out the epicness to your buddy. It would go something like this:
You: Hey Fred, see that dropship wreckage over there? I did that with my LAV!
Fred: You mean that hulk over by the pipes?
You: No, the one in front of the third pile to the left of the Null cannon over there.
Fred: Oh, you mean that bit of twisted wreckage there.
You: No, the other bit that's peeking out of the right side of the pile.
Fred: Look out!
Right then a LAV hits the pile of junk that completely blocks the road and blows up, adding one more hulk to mountain of junk.
You and Fred carefully climb over the pile of wreckage surrounding the Null Cannon and slide down the slope to cap it.
In a week the huge pile of MCC wreckage would allow you to step out of the MCC and run down without having to activate your inertial dampener.
Allow for environment destruction and there wouldn't be a wall left standing inside a week. When do you allow for downtime for the engineers to come in and rebuild?
"That's too much activity for one district!" you exclaim
Ok, let's create 21,800 districts so each one has one hundredth of the activity. Now we have only one battle per day so we don't have to spend all our time climbing over mountains of junk and detouring to get around every blocked staircase.
But what are the chances you will ever see that battlefield again inside the next year? Pretty slim. By then the engineers would be through there to clean out the wreckage and rebuild all the structures so you wouldn't recognize it if you did return.
The numbers show that your vision is impossible no matter what level of technology you assume. You aren't the only merc playing this game. There are thousands of others.
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