Let me be the voice of people here for a moment.
I'd like to speak on behalf of Burial, one of the key members of STC corporation.
Link:
Burial wrote:Spark TP isn't the decider on how many outpost a corporation can hold and protect.
Mr. Shadowmine, link:
Shadowmine wrote:Without SpT pretty much all current pvp dies....
Mr. Tux, link (Mind you, this was when there were 10!!! SPARKS per character):
Tux wrote:spark TP IS one of the best features of this game keep it as is
Beloved Mr. Cassius, link:
Cassius wrote:For the PvPer's ... The simple fact is SpT helps with force projection, but it is NOT THE ROOT CAUSE OF PVP IMBALANCE. Its a very small factor in the entire PvP mechanic. This is why a global cooldown would solve very little in the way of balancing PvP while at the same time punishing every other player simply playing the game.
The game world is simply too small to allow more than 2 entities to establish and expand. If EvE universe and player population is an example, this game would need 100 islands.
The game does not have the current minimum population to properly have intended game mechanics work as intended.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I am not taking anything out of the context; go read the thread it is from and see by yourself, while I am sure that people who wrote these comments pretty much remember their own words. The only difference there was is that there were more Gamma islands; however, Betas remain exactly the same, and they are the big big layer of gameplay.
Can we stop playing the political spin bullshit please, as it is clear that the corporations who were very vocal about the existence of sparks and leaving them as they were back then (for example STC), now are taking their words back as soon as tables turned against them.
I hope you guys realize (well) that your own words were wrong, by contradicting your current posts from your posts a year back.
If you think that CIR is FOR sparks and stuff like that, guess what: most of CIR members don't give a single ***. We will adopt and find ways to gank you 20 on 1 or happily fight odds 20 vs 100, with sparks, without sparks, anything. My PERSONAL opinion is that sparks in their current form are actually damaging the game, and 77CIR controlling the whole beta is the best example devs can have on their hands as to understand how EASY it can be for one organized entity to have such a huge impact (something that Gunner has been pointing out to you FOR AGES). It is not much about new corporations even, though it can have an effect if 77CIR decided it so (there are almost none new corps in the game atm anyway, nor the population to contest 77CIR utter dominance). It is just sad to see that people turn their guns and opinions according to the wind of politics, as to whether they win or lose. THESE ISSUES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY SINGLE CORP, IT IS ABOUT FAULTY GAME MECHANICS.
And only lonely jita... only jita's point of view persists through the ages. No matter how much you covered yourself in dirt jita, still a big respect to you for sticking to your views.
