Do you know what happens when resources are very concentrated in Eve?
Go look at OTEC
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Indeed.
Resource concentration must never be allowed to happen as then.
Ultimately I wouldn’t be looking so much at resource concentration… I’d like it to be dispersed in such a way that no group could reliably control it all. Would multiple large groups control it all? Possibly… but that’s where the first bullet about smash-and-grab tactics would drive conflict and allow in-roads by small groups (as they must fight asymmetric anyways).
Stuff like blopsing into a moon field, pop some skiffs/rorquals, loot the field, and GTFO. Or going bigger with a capital hot drop and dropping your own rorqs in to both scoop what drops and mine until the response fleet arrives if you’re a medium-large group.
Think about what is happening now… we’ve got these new faction citadels coming out, and it’s pushing conflict all over the place.
Predictably, the large groups are taking all the stations because they want them. That’s quite honestly not a problem though, it’s a pure expression of Survival Of The Fittest.
Regardless, it is a limited resource which is driving conflict. In this particular conflict, smash-and-grab won’t work because you have to actually control the resource… but in something where you can literally just grab and go, it would be viable.
Perhaps coupled with the massive reduction in moons (and I did say a significant increase in moon production to accompany the reduced moon count) adding mechanics to make it harder for large groups to maintain an iron grip on their moons thus facilitating ninja-efforts. Probably also something to stop from from just deploying 200 rorquals in the moon field and stripping it in 5 minutes, which would certainly become a thing.
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