Except it isn’t, because they’re completely destroying that dynamic by having drifter and rogue drone kills give you both Trig and Edencom standings. The only thing unintended about the drone structures was how much standings they gave, not that they gave it for both factions. CCP doesn’t want to bother iterating on Edencom held systems, they’d rather destroy the player-supported conflict between the two factions because I guess rogue drones are suddenly a big enough threat to unite two sides that have been at bitter war between each other for months.
Oh, and isn’t Trig space cool? You guys should go to Trig space. Precursors are the best!
From what I could tell, CCP anticipated that there would be barely anyone supporting Edencom this year, so they might as well just plug that hole so we’re all forcibly grouped together doing PvE content.
(as a serious answer, they probably wouldn’t do this anyways even if they had rewarded edencom players properly, rogue drones are basically Eve’s version of wild animals and drifters are omnicidal maniacs that IIRC hate all capsuleers, so it wouldn’t make any sense to join them)
I’m not that well versed on drifter stuff as I was unsubbed for a long period when they were the dominant threat, so someone else could probably explain it a lot better than I could. From what I understand though, sleepers were always present in wormhole space, as they were an offshoot of the Jove that explored it. They were “asleep” more or less hence the name, but our presence there woke them up and now they’re the rats you fight in W-space. Drifters I believe were the result of CONCORD prodding around in space somewhere and happening upon them, although I could be wrong because I believe they and the trigs were discovered through similar means. I’m not sure what their origins are, I just know that they’re extremely dangerous and shoot just about everything.
If you wanted a more accurate reply, I’m sure there’s someone that browses the Eve Fiction boards that could tell you much more than I could.
That Trig space is so full of money it is ridiculous. You don’t even need to shoot anything - the NPCs shoot each other and leave their loot and wrecks strewn everywhere.
Hmm well Id say the main difference between the WoW analogy and this is that they expect people to flip flop between sides, given there seems to be content for both factions in there.
Basically, play tennis with players as each side gets a buff or a new best-thing-ever.
Like, notice how after the saturation of Trig ships became so much that clouds of Leshaks became common, EDENCOM ships got a buff and a 90% reductionin LP cost?
They say it was for “balance” and people said “yay they listened to us”
A blind man’s dog could have told you that they sucked in their original configuration, and I hear they still suck, so expect juicy buffs to the Stormtosser and the Skybonker or whatever they are called.
