Jita wrote:I think thats more down to the cohesive nature of politics and that its a LOT easier to defend one place with lots of people. If it bothers you then decare one of the betas a safe zone from Novablob and police it from undesirables in much the same way hoop did and watch the population rise.
You cant complain about an island bieng dead when you actively try to stamp on people who move there.
I can give you some instructions in politics.
Lesson 1:
When someone you declared war on presents themselves as "extended blue family" and hides behind fledgeling corporations, after you've previously explained the situation and offered unconditional support to these fledgeling corporations, and strongly recommended to them NOT to get involved; you don't just ignore your enemy happily farming on a Beta island. You come over, gun them down, along with everything that gets between you and them.
Nobody forced the corp in question - FOOM - to go blue with 62nd, or to squad-up with them and try to shoot at our guys. Nobody bent their arm behind their back or put a gun to their temple.
As we've stated elsewhere (SovNov Statement of Intent) we're quite happy to help out new corps get settled on Beta, help them take outposts, advise them how to stand on their own two feet without being affiliated in any way with us. That is not the point. The point is that we are neither *** or stupid to just watch while our enemies hide behind new-corps they NAP-ed and live & farm on Beta.
The same will happen with this M2S/62nd/FOOM/ATG push to form up on Hokkagaros. In two weeks time we'll be back to Jelan shooting vomit-balls on the forums because his toys fell out of the pram.
ZUBO wrote:Syndic wrote:The biggest NIC sink in game is the fact that you LOSE your robot when you die, along with the modules. This is something that mainly happens on Beta islands, with some cases of AFK or unlucky people getting popped by Alpha observers.
Well unless you bought the robot from an NPC Order its not a NIC sink though. No NIC is "lost" when your Bot is blown up, in fact if your Bot was insured you even have more NIC than before.
But you are right when you say that beta-islands are not "shiny" enough. Although one has to be careful when changing stuff.
Its a NIC sink because production-NIC is going out of the game. Those bots aren't cheap to make, those modules aren't cheap to make, and those prototypes aren't cheap to make. Its the most consistent NIC-sink, the more lost the more needs to be produced, the more NIC changes hands in capitalist corps etc.
Also, the benefit of this inherent NIC sink is that it doesn't require development time by itself since its already present in the game.