Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Last one out, Hit the lights.

I've tried to avoid commenting on the GoonSwarm/KenZoku controversey until facts were straight and I knew what it all really implies for the Eve universe. I think I've got a pretty good grip on it now.

First off, as a former Goon, I of course am ecstatic that BoB was the victim. So let's get that out of the way.

As far as the 'fair-ness' of it all. It is without question, or hesitation that I say this was perfectly fair, and should be noted as a feature, not a bug. In a game that has stagnated through POS warfare and home-field advantage, it is a refreshing game mechanic. While I still feel that the bulk of political goals should be carried out via ship-to-ship combat, I feel that it is important to have multiple ways to hurt an alliance. It should be mentioned that ship to ship combat is still heavy in Delve, a logistical melt down has not prevented fights.

I feel there aren't ENOUGH mechanics to attack an alliance from the inside. I believe corporate infiltration should be much more common. Not to steal, or make off with riches, that is already quite possible, but to cause more logistical and infrastructural damage. Right now to do damage to infrastructure means to burn a spy. Once his job is done, that spy is done. Espionage should be more prevalent in my opinion.

At the end of the day, 1 man being able to disband an alliance can be debated, but he was appointed the power he had by the leaders of that alliance, it is in no way unfair for him to do what he did. 

On the actual invasion? Hats off to goons. The time for hesitation has passed. 

Abandoning the southern empire to poor all of your logistics team into delve is a gutsy move, with big payoff if it can be pulled off. The fighting in delve is pretty epic, and is going on at all hours of the day. It is ship to ship combat and logistics that is deciding this invasion. No other conflict in recent memory is so reliant on sheer will and coordination of every pilot. Not just titans, capital ships and POS logistics, but everyone. 

The conflict has given me complete resolve to say that Capital ships and titans were a bad idea. Capital ships in my personal opinion should have always been logistical, never combative. The Titan bridge is a good mechanic, but the doomsday most definitely is not, a mobile platform for re-shipping and re-fitting is a good one, fighter blobs are not.

Battleships should be the new Battleships. 


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