Sure, I’ll take that point. but this is a almost 2 decade old game. Even if I’m a bittervet, if I don’t adapt, and just ■■■■-talk while ship-spinning, or not even logged on, what contribution am I making to the game? If I unsub my 8 accounts, it wouldn’t be affecting the game at all. Sure its like… 160 quid a month, nothing to sneeze at, but there are people also re-subbing, which will offset or even overtake the losses.
Also, people forget that say, local goes permanently, and there is a huge issue with blops (and it is unexpected and not already refuted in many comments further up in this discussion), then CCP will fix it. If there is some other unforeseen thing that happens and potentially ruins everyday play, they’ll come up with ways to deal with it.
Removing local will be a most glorious change, and I’m not saying that as just a hunter. My toons are industrialists, miners, ratters, explorers, PvX, incursion, missioning… everything in Eve I’ve pretty much got covered at the drop of a hat.
Just dont suck and die to sneaky force recons or something lots more new things can go right, but even more new things can go wrong with blops drops during blackout.
Haha, dying gloriously is part and parcel for me as a support, but I’ve never lost a blops even with all the ops we ran in sspectre, so much goodies, the time has come!
Just because local changes does not mean it will be like WH space. You can’t Bat phone in WH space. there are no cynos and it takes real strategy to take a WH from a large corp. People will still have security measures for from the greater alliance. You will just have to use your D-Scan like a big boy and pay attention. This will also help mitigate the use of bots as they will be more vulnerable. Anyways GL and Fly Safe o7
More PVP happened when local was broken. We killed some Supers when local was broken. Probably bots. NS is to safe. Having less of a warning is better for the economy. More ships getting destroyed more minerals get used. NS will always have “Bat phones”. WH Space is still completely different. There will be more Small Gang & solo PVP. Bots will be more likely to be killed. People will have to set up scouts and/or use D-Scan like big kids.
Also PVP people and Indy people will have to rely on each other more. this will all around make the economy of eve more stable. Sometimes drastic change needs to happen. Some people are going to hate it, some are going to love it. Null bears will have to adapt.
I believe this should remain a permanent change. It will fulfill many positives for the game as a whole. More PVP, Mitigate the use of bots, make players have to be more active, make the use of recon ships & cloaky more viable in NS, people will have to communicate more, and Indy and PVP ppl working together more. All of this will overall help stabilize the economy. This will be a overall win for everyone except botters.
Ye no local doesnt exactly enthuse me into using cynos, blops or otherwise. The risk for that is exactly the same before, only the playstyle differs a little tbvh.
I think the fact that he thinks Delve will stop exporting is something that would happen.
Delve has tried to manipulate the market like that before. Price went up by less than 10% before dropping even lower as people in Delve saw a chance to make isk and promptly dumped stockpiles.
Personally I don’t see the loss of Delve’s export to be a big concern. Higher prices might just lead to me actually exporting my ore rather than selling it for cheap to corpmates in my wormhole. It might even lead to less cap blobs if it’s that much of a shortage.
He just keeps making it seem more appealing to me.
Yep. Just cause Imperium stops exporting doesn’t mean Delve stops exporting. Individuals can and will continue to trade and make isk. Those price hikes from last time were people thinking the worst and buying up stock early.
Has anyone trying to organize an embargo of this type stopped to consider some side effects of succeeding?
One that instantly leaps to my mind is that you have made yourself a very lucrative target both for player raids which will be harder to stop and full scale invasion.
The greater the reward becomes for breaking the embargo or outright destroying you the greater the temptation to do so. Are you sure you can keep them all in line?
All to stomp your feet about how much less money you’re making? Up to you I guess but I’m not seeing the outcome being anything like the restoration of local chat. Think about what you are trying to achieve and then ask yourself if your actions are likely to get you there.
Agreed.
I’m still waiting for the genius programmer to drop that dank knowledge on how to make a AI bot – that can make intelligent decisions, with partial information that you’d infer from just dscan and overview, so that the bot can tell if it needs to run the function to safe up, or run the function to go back to mindless mining/ratting. Oh yeah – that can also run on an affordable rig.
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lots more new things can go right, but even more new things can go wrong with blops drops during blackout.