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[Kosa]

Nope. I bet that there would be no activity spike.
Because you all think too simplistic totally ignoring the big picture.

Lets say I am guy willing to make money in Discovery and I have a miner.
I see the change and rep my miner to junker, go to mine and then some Xenos kill me 2-3 times.
What I do?
Admins think that I would do following:
1:Hire escorts,team up with other fellow miners, call the local law enforcement to protect me.
In reality it happens following:
2: I just re-rep my miner and go to mine in the empty Omegas/Kusari/Dublin/Taos/whatever...
Simply because currently are more free of pirates mining spots in the server then the total numbers of players on-line.

This change would have exactly the opposite result and would be negative towards activity. By creating more mining spots you reduce the chance of miner to be pirated. Giving more mining spots to semi-lawful faction that is in good relation with the pirates reduces the chances even more. The whole promotes credits grinding and avoiding of interaction.


If you want 1 to happen you need to remove option 2. The simplest more efficient way to remove it to nerf the rest of mining spots when you buff one so the activity can be concentrated there.

The whole is simple maths combined with some basic Nash Game Theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
Read it if you wish.

I am sorry to agree with Govedo. I'm sorry because I know the admin team only wanted to do good. And I agree with Govedo because he is right and that's also what I'd do (Option 2)

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