Basil Vulpine
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Posted - 2017.03.24 12:39:06 -
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mkint wrote:Rena'Thras wrote:I'll ask the same for this that I've asked all along with all the Upwell Structures:
WHEN WILL THERE BE A SMALL SIZE?
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It was mentioned earlier by some people, but this means people that run small POSes now or smaller Corporations or industrial players now have to join a big Corp or Alliance in order to do this stuff. Right now, you can drop a small POS in Lowsec as an individual or small Corporation and work into the moon mining game, as well as dropping a small POS in Highsec if you want your own personal refining station.
After this change, you're going from a 150M investment into a several billion ISK facility, something like a 10-100x increase in cost for people, yeah?
I've always liked the idea of smaller groups being able to do things, and I love personal deployable structures, so I feel like there should be SMALL structures added to the Upwell lines. The fact that this is going to essentially phase out SMALL POSes, yet there is no SMALL version, I find very strange and not really defensible as a position unless the goal of EVE is to tell small groups or individual players that they aren't welcome in it.
Surely that isn't the intention...?
One can make the argument for Citadels not having a small size due to their nature. Engineering complexes the argument isn't as good, but it might still hold some water. But as we get more and more structures and get closer and closer to removing POSes from the game, CCP, you guys really need to look at throwing a bone to small corps and players that need smaller, cheaper, and more manageable facilities for their needs. CCP has made it crystal clear that small groups are no longer welcome in EVE. If that bothers you, you are welcome to unsub. EVE has become a marketing driven game, and if you don't N+1, you don't contribute to their marketing and are thus disposable.
Small structures have always been listed as personal items rather than corp. They exist, they are called mobile depot and other such things. Mediums are pretty affordable even for individuals in a personal corp, they just aren't hugely defendable if somebody decides to attack them. Then again neither are larges unless you have a fleet to back you up.
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