After this recent rather terrible event in which the usual bling masters, including myself, ran sites in multi billion T3Cs while plebs, aka newer players ran them in HACs, I thought it's about time that Fenris had a good hard think about what they're trying to achieve with these events. Are they trying to keep highsec isklords on board? Are they trying to make the game "interesting" for all the poor sods who only recently skilled into T2 weapons in cruisers? Are they trying to make Alphas envious because 15 year player xDEATHLORDx with his 2 billion fit Astero is nicking all the hacking sites? Are they trying to "ENCOURAGE CONFLICT" inside the sites with people going suspect when dudette nicks the loot from the wreck? What is the point? The loot from the last event, specialist drones that are only marginally useful, hordes of implants that crashed the market for the next few months, 5 minute boosters for FW matches or catching someone, or the hilariously bad anti-Breacher DC was spectacularly bad. The short time boosters expire at the weekend, so what was the point of getting them at all, since there's no way you'll use them all by then? This is par for the course since then CCP dropped actual fun events like the Guristas Easter Egg hunt four years ago (T1 dessie and T2 frigs down) where everybody had an actual chance of actually winning a site.
This is crap, to put it mildly. The Breacher pod is still hugely OP and its mechanics are still massively skewed, anti-Breacher DC or not. A Cenotaph should not be able to kill a dreadnaught or a titan. The events leave out all those people that Fenris made that god-awful Exordium region for. The events only reward those who are have high skills and even higher isk balances. Therefore I propose the following two events:$
- An event which allows t1 fit t1 cruisers with absolutely no implants, no drugs and no faction weapons or ammo. Let the players' skill determine who gets the loot. Let the player who gets the most damage on the boss get the loot. Make it necessary to PvP fit their ships, i.e. web and scram, else the boss just warps off and nobody wins, with the bonus that you can scram Dudette who nicked the loot and everyone can shoot them and they can shoot you back.
- An event for corvettes, with the same t1 weapons, implants, drugs and faction ammo restrictions as the cruiser event. Players need to fight one another as only the last man on grid enables the boss to spawn. Everyone goes suspect on entering the site. It won't be worth it for edgelords to camp the entry gates, apart from the same people who gank Ventures, I suppose. Make it that there is no warping out until there is only one person left on grid, i.e. like the old arenas that were similar, but without a timer. Make Corvettes Great Again! MCGA!
Sigh. Won't happen of course, but one can dream.
