New Empyrean Age devlog explains the lack of alliance support in factional warfare
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Expansions, Game mechanics
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EVE Online has many alliances, and some of them shifted their fire towards CCP when word reached players that their alliance had to sit this one out. The hail of rocket fire caused Greyscale to hop onto the forums and post a response to some of the concerns. Within the post were a few key notes:
- Alliances will not dominate factional warfare and their exclusion encourages players not in an alliance to participate
- Alliances, mechanically speaking, cannot receive standings from factions
- Role playing guidelines dictate that the major factions do not want alliance politics meddling in their affairs
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Hammer said on 12:15PM 5-20-2008
My 0.02 ISK?
The alliances whine too much. Just a few months ago it was compalints about all high sec players being 'carebears', now when CCP implaments a feature to get highsec players into PvP without resorting to piracy the alliances start moaning because they can't play gank the newbie (but no doubt will anyway).
If Empyarian Age bombs, I have absolutly no doubt it's going to be the result of the big alliances playing silly buggers :(
There are rumours going round about BoB and the Goons getting involved anyway.
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W. Graves said on 1:42PM 5-20-2008
I think this should be rather interesting, but it depends on the factional warfare rewards. if these rewards are high enough you may see some splintering of alliances and the rise of larger/ more corps, which would be beneficial to overall game mechanics and help system stability as it will keep players more evenly spread around the map.
If the rewards are not high enough it will simply be a CCP supported carebear-gank.
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