@Zoom
Might as well flip a coin to make the right choice. Do you design the game to be enjoyable now or to be support a health population?
To not get to head over heals in theory's and possibilities to be blunt the road you are heading down is not easy and could work out or blow up. Forcing the conflict to be over epi is only going to cause a short-term increase in PvP but lead to the same if not a increase the rate at which PO is losing players.
PvP is not occurring and this is in a attempt to remedy this. Why not enable people to access PvP easier than try forcing fights through vulnerability.
How many Veteran corps do you see losing miners, hell go back to when we only had beta and the "veterans" never lost miners. These kinds of changes effect the little guy much more and may create a short-term stimulation but will inevitably in the long run cause more harm than good. How are these players supposed build bots to compete or even gamma building,while still just trying to stay alive to mine? *Epi is in everything*
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