Re: Content expansion - Titan ore
*honk honk* Looks like we got ourselves a Convoy!!
Today it is CIR buying titan, tomorrow it will be another corp. As long as there are some corps buying alpha miner ore than this will work.
Granted, if 3 Islands worth of beta corps decended on 3 alpha islands, there would be some serious competition for titan. But there will be 6 alpha islands. And it won't happen as cleanly as the math, but currently there are 6 islands being mined for titan, and after the expansions, there will still be 6 islands being mined for titan.
If beta corps roll in on titan day, I have 6 islands of other minerals I can go mine... or maybe it would be worth a little visit to an epitron field that day...
Tactics works both ways for large logistical moves. I'm not calling out CIR specifically on this, but using your example, the corporation doing that type of convoy is going to attract a lot of attention. Add in some Combat support to those Lithus's and you have the makings of an Epic PVP encounter.
This is eactly the type of PVP scenerior's that people have been asking for. A reason to PVP other than intrusions, and here it is. Transitioning from alpha to beta allows for more opportunity of an encounter than simply moving between outposts on a Beta Island.
I'm not implying that this PVP encounter opportunity can't be avoided if a corporation didn't want this type of fun, but there is now 'some' motivation to do it, but it isn't mandatory like intrusions. As well as making routing decisions with new teleporters and avoiding possible ambushes.