tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10989652.post4456612777031406209..comments2024-02-13T04:29:44.662-05:00Comments on Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah: Bottoms UpKirith Kodachihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12322297953184168725noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10989652.post-52823380017156539962013-08-20T09:28:35.773-04:002013-08-20T09:28:35.773-04:00A way to fight a guerrilla campaign is to disrupt ...A way to fight a guerrilla campaign is to disrupt the movement of goods or people. Rail line, pipe line, highways, high tension wires, bridges, ports, shipping lanes of all kinds.<br /><br />These distribution system are, well, distributed. While certain areas would be high value areas, the system as a whole tends to be fixed in space and large, in comparison to the easy reach of law enforcement.<br /><br />The transfer if ISK, on the other hand, requires no pipeline, no shipping lane. By having the major alliances fill their boots with essentially protection money, there is no infrastructure that is easily disturbed by small gangs. Sure you can frighten renters, but the rent is due at the end of the month regardless of how scary hunting NPCs in the dark may be. And you can't frighten all the renters at one time. And you can't steal the mail to stop the cheques from flowing.<br /><br />While we can complain that jump bridges/jump freighters have made the flow of moon goo hard (nearly impossible) to interrupt, there is simply no practical way to interrupt the flow of rent ISK.<br /><br />I believe that another solution should be used - in that moon goo is to be transferred similarly to the POCO model used for PI (technically, I believe that moon goo should be planetary goo and simply another form of PI, but that is a different discussion)<br /><br />This moon go would be collected by *players* that need to sit way out from a POS shield to load the goo. Vulnerable. Defendable only by other ships.<br /><br />Keep moon goo viable (lets not pretend that they aren't valuable!) but make it more vulnerable to small gangs.<br /><br />As for interrupting rents, the only thing we can do is lower the value of the neighborhood. There can't be a near limitless supply renters, so a sudden increase in rental space should result in the lowering of rent in generally. Hopefully, the competition in the rental space will result in a rental rate race to the bottom, where the good renters are the sought after goods as opposed to the good space.<br /><br />Perhaps CCP may add that mechanism for small gang to interrupt the flow of ISK to the renters, so that the rental space becomes less valuable and hence bad for the landlord - but I don't see it coming. And I'd be afraid that such a mechanism would be no different than hammering on a Ihub.<br /><br />We need the EVE equivalent of gang sign. Of boarded up former crack houses. Industrial Blight.<br /><br />Detroit.<br /><br />heh - maybe the value of NPC rats decreases with the number of anchored cans belonging to other corps. Now THAT would be the equivalent of badly spelled graffiti on rail cars and buildings.Knug Lidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08168621175894976018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10989652.post-73924617664699106852013-08-20T03:51:29.497-04:002013-08-20T03:51:29.497-04:00In general this bottom up transfer of isk is bette...In general this bottom up transfer of isk is better than the moon mining income. But I don't see the point of more targets, yes you will catch some ratting renters this won't be much more and it doesn't last long IMO. Even those renters learn from time to time.<br /><br />What I still miss is a reason to defend against roaming gangs. Most of the time they get ignored, people hide in pos and wait until they are gone.<br />Sometimes the roaming gang camps a gate in the hope to get a counter fleet forming up, but at the end of the day this just happens because some have fun fighting them and not because the poor renters loose money.<br /><br />If CCP invents a mechanic for small gangs to reduce or even steal npc bounties for a longer time than they hang around, you might really get a conflict driver for small gangs, as there is a reason to fight for those living in the system.<br /><br />Than, many small entities fighting a big one could steal from the landlords entire region(s) of space and he either has to increase counter fleets or reduce the borders in which he operates.Chaninahttp://www.citadel-of-asgard.orgnoreply@blogger.com