I hadn't realised they'd done that for null sec but that's an actually worse balance move because it means like you point out there's zero incentive for them to move out of 0.0 space. The other one was that there were alliances who were clearly fucking up the tech blueprints queue in the stations no matter where you were and had bots farming them so that nobody else could get access to higher tier ships through the economy and potentially form a fleet. This means of course as well they can set prices to whatever they like and it forces noobs especially to farm ISK for them if they want to get a single ship for themselves.

I don't know whether they fixed that but it was that exploit in particular that pissed me off a lot about the game and made you realise the sorts of people that were playing. I'm going to check out the 2024 version of Rust just for the lulz and have my prejudices confirmed but this is a similar tactic they do on that game where they farmed every resource in existence so that nakeds couldn't even have a chance of getting themselves a weapon to fight back even if they teamed up.

It does look like the Rust devs though unlike the CCP devs have fixed that problem since because apparently you can farm player corpses for bones which is pretty hilarious but at least that gives you somewhat of a fighting chance as a solo player. That was my biggest complaint about the game, it's clearly still a bit if of a clan based gank fest though. I'm not surprised that the types of people who enjoyed EVE Online have gravitated towards that game instead.

I hadn't realised they'd done that for null sec but that's an actually worse balance move because it means like you point out there's zero incentive for them to move out of 0.0 space. The other one was that there were alliances who were clearly fucking up the tech blueprints queue in the stations no matter where you were and had bots farming them so that nobody else could get access to higher tier ships through the economy and potentially form a fleet. This means of course as well they can set prices to whatever they like and it forces noobs especially to farm ISK for them if they want to get a single ship for themselves.

I don't know whether they fixed that but it was that exploit in particular that pissed me off a lot about the game and made you realise the sorts of people that were playing. I'm going to check out the 2024 version of Rust just for the lulz and have my prejudices confirmed but this is a similar tactic they do on that game where they farmed every resource in existence so that nakeds couldn't even have a chance of getting themselves a weapon to fight back even if they teamed up.

It does look like the Rust devs though unlike the CCP devs have fixed that problem since because apparently you can farm player corpses for bones which is pretty hilarious but at least that gives you somewhat of a fighting chance as a solo player. That was my biggest complaint about the game, it's clearly still a bit if of a clan based gank fest though.

I hadn't realised they'd done that for null sec but that's an actually worse balance move because it means like you point out there's zero incentive for them to move out of 0.0 space. The other one was that there were alliances who were clearly fucking up the tech blueprints queue in the stations no matter where you were and had bots farming them so that nobody else could get access to higher tier ships through the economy and potentially form a fleet. This means of course as well they can set prices to whatever they like and it forces noobs especially to farm ISK for them if they want to get a single ship for themselves.

I don't know whether they fixed that but it was that exploit in particular that pissed me off a lot about the game and made you realise the sorts of people that were playing. I'm going to check out the 2024 version of Rust just for the lulz and have my prejudices confirmed but this is a similar tactic they do on that game where they farmed every resource in existence so that nakeds couldn't even have a chance of getting themselves a weapon to fight back even if they teamed up.

It does look like the Rust devs though unlike the CCP devs have fixed that problem since because apparently you can farm player corpses for bones which is pretty hilarious but at least that gives you somewhat of a fighting chance as a solo player.