Quote:I had a small idea that'd be relevant now if you're considering the placement of fields:
I've always thought that O-7 has bland placement, but awesome potential if given a redesign. All three fields in the system should be merged to encourage corps in the system to battle over resources. Admittedly though, I think something like that would work much better with field drain on (controversial, I know).
Field drain provoked only one thing: terrible behavious towards indies. I was around when factions made pirates to kill off active indy miners of the same ID because "they steal all the ore!". The first players who will suffer are indies. So, no. Field drain and "battle over fields" has never resulted in anything good. The measures taken were always on an oorp or semi-oorp level and generally made the game worse. That's why the removal of field drain was universally greeted as a great step.
You do not own a mining faction, Lyth. But if you manage to get 4 people on these days and then you realize "field is drained", you just want to dock, log off and play something else. Effort leading to nothing is bad. Field drain is bad.
In general, unification of fields is a good step. Miners - also of rivalling groups - meeting is good for interaction. We'll see how much "corp warfare" players are able to do. Experience has shown that many were incapable and/or unwilling to get it right and to do it in a way that is conducive to the roleplay on the server. But I guess time will show how it plays out this time.
