(01-25-2017, 03:17 PM)Jack_Henderson Wrote: I do not understand why factions have not yet made "bonus boards" for the event. It's clearly said that it is low profit and that factions are meant to invest something.
Furthermore, I agree with the voices that there could be some incentive to GRN players to actually step up to the event. I mean, there are incentives that can motivate without halting/reversing the dev-made progression of the story line. Like... if GRN manages, one of their Valors gets a funky CAU9 for 3 weeks, or something along these lines. It would not break the event, nor the story line, and add some oorp incentive.
It would definitely make more sense than trying to weave an alternative storyline in which many of the the same players - after they cannot win on GRN ships due to event setup and story line - do not even play in the event, but try to "win" on an alternative ID. Because - sadly - that's for sure what it looks like at the moment.
1. Why would people invest the money they have earned or powertraded in hours and hours into an event that is already pre-scripted? See, OSI was making a subsidy for the armament deliveries of FP11 because it would actually change something that wasn't pre-scripted unlike the rest of it. But seriously, do you think additional bounty money actually makes partaking in PvP events more interesting, when you simply can ore-trade or wait for the next trade event where you can get 50.000.000 bonus credits for a risky 20 minute flight?
2. Why would GRN invest in something like this when the bounty money would be the thing they get back anyway, while the money for supplies is simply moving to silent traders? The situation in the Omicrons was a bit different, as bigger factions where involved, with ties to major parts of Sirius, while it was also a bottleneck. In the Taus, that is different.
3. The stakes should be something real-ish, not something that is temporary. The reward needs to be something that isn't infinite, like money. It should be something that is really worth logging, like a Scientific Data reward, or a massive one-time-PoB warship that requires hours to be destroyed. The latter would even motivate to log more often to damage the pob even further, while the other side could counterlog for that.
4. Again, stop acting like the PoB siege is a big thing in terms of time and ressource relocation. There are too many arguments speaking against it. Apart from that, you could maybe put the personal view aside, because the PoB siege is not a counter-reaction to the event. I don't know why you think that, but I know for fact that the plans for the siege, followed by the first RP posts regarding it, were there before the second event of the Tau thing was there, and before it was public and quasi-greened that the outcome of this event is already pre-scripted.
There might be some players that might have acted like the way you described it in your conspiracy theory, but I believe it's much more simple: Some people didn't care about the Tau event in first place, but had the motivation to do another siege, from memers, for memers, against memers.
