But the test is about vehicle and weapon balance tho. But yeah might be smoke and mirror again who knows but just pointing out its not testing any of the things you think they are testing.
Well if the game aims to be like EVE then probably there will be a lot of territory battle between organizations but I know I know we can't speak about the future since it is only speculation.
Why do they even bother testing weapon and vehicle balance at this stage? As soon as they need more money they will release another vehicle that punches above its weight and destroy and previous balance anyway.
Also, balance is completely useless here anyway when people can always have bigger and better stuff through $$$.
Well if the game aims to be like EVE
Well, that's an interesting question-statement. Some backers want a game like EvE, some want a chill space game. Others want max immersion while others want fast paced pewpew arena gameplay.
However, how will territorial gameplay actually work and for what? This has been theorized about before. What will people actually fight over for reasons that matter to anyone? It might work, due to the tiny size of the SC universe, there might be locations that contain stuff that people really want and allow a group to control it, but like with such things, this means maintaining a defensive presence 24/7, and if nobody gives a damn about that location, maybe because there are other locations, then they are only going to get attacked by people looking to have a good old fashioned gankfest, and don't give a damn about the resource. Else what will people do while waiting to be attacked? Stand around saluting each other?
Even more absurd is the dreamcrafting that goes on over land claims and defending those territories. As we can see, CIG have done nothing since selling land to allow those claims to actually claim anything nor to do anything with those claims, and the base building ship they sold doesn't even exist yet. Not does the imagined defense systems for claimed territories. What CIG did sell was a bomber that could totally ruin a base from great height, which is rather amusing. But the problem with the dreamcrafting people have over bases is people need to be online and present to defend their terriotiries. Combined with long travel times, by the time you could respond to notification of an attack, your base will be wiped out.
EvE works because Orgs have huge numbers of people in them online 24/7 willing to hang around defending those territories but at the same time they can command all their units from their console, while in SC when you are in one location you are at that location, you can't affect anything at another location.
Ok, i've gone off at a tangent again, when i meant to stick to why balance at this point is simply worthless considering. Because there is no balance anyway. No when CIG will destroy that balance with their next OP ship/vehicle/weeapon sale and what does it matter in terms of balance when your half a dozen immurshun RPers standing around all day waiting to be attacked don't ever get attacked, or if they do, they get bombed on from a great height by SDC all flying bombers and having lulz on Discord while telling those on the ground to git gud.
