# The fight for Not Red Don't Shoot (NRDS) Providence region continues!

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**Tags:** null-sec, pvp\
**Created:** [October 8, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-fight-for-not-red-dont-shoot-nrds-providence-region-continues/272194 "2020-10-08T21:18:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wadiest\_Yong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wadiest_yong/32/426921_2.png) [@Wadiest\_Yong](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wadiest_Yong)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-fight-for-not-red-dont-shoot-nrds-providence-region-continues/272194/29 "2020-10-09T11:11:36Z")

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> [@Tintallei\_Sharan](#):
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> But on the other hand, you can’t keep old players either if you put too much limits on it, basically telling them that “This is a game about conquest but if you are doing too well you are gonna get nerfed/reset/whatever in order not to afraid newer players”. That’s not worth investing your efforts into conquest if you know you are gonna be limited if you ever happen to be succesfull at it.

Very true, completely agree here.

That is also why, in my own [Your Opinion on (Providence) NRDS](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/your-opinion-on-providence-nrds/256039) thread I asked the question if " \* … it (is) a shared responsibility of the major blocs (panfam, imperium, legacy, etc) to keep the zone more or less intact when it really matters ? Is it in their interest ?"  
A positive answer to that question (which was not popular, btw) would probably be a modest way to find some semblance of balance for the aspect you raise.  
Of course, from **within** the game it doesn’t make any sense at all, any region should be conquerable in some way, and some small bloc should not get preferential treatment.  
On the other hand, looking from **outside** of the game, on _metapolitical level_, Provi bloc has survived that long undoubtedly **because** the large entities allowed it to (and because Provi didn’t hold any really valuable resources, of course). These large blocs seem to have forgotten having NRDS nerds around was actually beneficial to them and the game itself too, lost interest, changed leadership or whatever other reasons.

But I do believe that it still is in the interest of the game to have NRDS in some way, shape, and region. It requires some self-restraint on the part of the biggest entities, evidently.

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