Naysayers claim that the New Order will fail to have impact on the game economy and will remain a funny, roleplaying nonsense in highsec without any other effect than making some AFK-ers mad.
There are two challenges the New Order must - and clearly cannot - complete to reach its goals. At first, whole highsec must be covered. 2000+ systems. If we assume a Knight squad in every constellation, we will need more people online and in fleets than HBC had on the last timer of 49U. Clearly impossible.
Well, we are growing very fast, new Knights are arriving left and right so let's imagine we can continue to grow to the point of 2000 men standing army. Then what? The permanent botters and notorious AFK-leeches were smashed long ago, all that's left to gank is a few newbie Retreivers who failed to read the forums or talk with anyone in the belt who could have informed them. Maybe sometimes a permit holder thinks that 10M bought him AFK-ing rights and doesn't respond in local for longer time. But at this stage there will be 1-2 violating miners every day per constellation. A huge standing fleet is impossible on its own, now we are talking about a huge, standing patrolling but not fighting fleet. Let's be honest after a week of patrol most people will move to do something more fun, like grinding structures in stealth bombers.
We have to face it, the goals of the New Order are completely out of reach.
However the New Order is for the miners, and wish to facilitate the arrival of the active miner. It's not a mythical creature. New players mine actively since they are interested in the game. Casual miners detto. Multiboxers without bot also need to be around to manage their fleet. There are already active miners and with even a slight increase of mineral prices their numbers will grow.
Contrary to naysayers, the active miner isn't just looking at the cycle. He is watching local, communicating with other miners, watching directional scan for random griefers and so on. And above all, he spends his time in the belt (for obvious reasons). He knows that his worst enemy is the AFK-leech who devalues his products. So when he warps in the belt he checks on the fellow miners, both to join/form Orca-boosted fleet and to find AFK-ers. If he finds one and communication attempts fail for a longer period, he alerts the rest of the miners in the constellation, they relog to ganker alts and dispose the imposter. He won't get too many kills, but he won't mind as he is a miner. The kills are rather a little spice to his mining day. It will also serve as an introduction to PvP for the mainly PvE-er miners. His main activity will be - surprise - mining and socializing. Yes, I promote socializing as it is one level above leeching.
What about the Knights? Well, there will always be need for Knights but not in the number of thousands or even hundreds. A dozen Knights at a time online can keep the whole highsec clear. How? Because they don't have to bother about lone AFK-ing Macks, the miners handle those. The Knights are only called when the bad guys are really bad: bot-fleets, tanked Skiff AFK-er, combat ship protected bait Macks and so on. By the time we get to this phase, the Knighs will improve a lot. Those Knights won't resemble to the rag-tag militia of today. Orca alts will be all around highsec of the various knights, so one Orca can move to position in a few jumps. The Knights podjump to a close station, move to the Orca which deploys a few T2 Catalysts that the Knights mount and dispose the infidel. If the baddie is really-really bad, like a 20+ member botfleet, one of them follow it in covops, a proper fleet is planned for the next evening and the field cleaned up completely.
So yes, the low-meta Cata riding few days old alts of casual gankers have no future. But the active miners combined with a small elite force has. You probably guessed it, the crucial question is "will there be enough PvE players who switch to mining from missioning/ratting"? Only time will tell.
There are two challenges the New Order must - and clearly cannot - complete to reach its goals. At first, whole highsec must be covered. 2000+ systems. If we assume a Knight squad in every constellation, we will need more people online and in fleets than HBC had on the last timer of 49U. Clearly impossible.
Well, we are growing very fast, new Knights are arriving left and right so let's imagine we can continue to grow to the point of 2000 men standing army. Then what? The permanent botters and notorious AFK-leeches were smashed long ago, all that's left to gank is a few newbie Retreivers who failed to read the forums or talk with anyone in the belt who could have informed them. Maybe sometimes a permit holder thinks that 10M bought him AFK-ing rights and doesn't respond in local for longer time. But at this stage there will be 1-2 violating miners every day per constellation. A huge standing fleet is impossible on its own, now we are talking about a huge, standing patrolling but not fighting fleet. Let's be honest after a week of patrol most people will move to do something more fun, like grinding structures in stealth bombers.
We have to face it, the goals of the New Order are completely out of reach.
However the New Order is for the miners, and wish to facilitate the arrival of the active miner. It's not a mythical creature. New players mine actively since they are interested in the game. Casual miners detto. Multiboxers without bot also need to be around to manage their fleet. There are already active miners and with even a slight increase of mineral prices their numbers will grow.
Contrary to naysayers, the active miner isn't just looking at the cycle. He is watching local, communicating with other miners, watching directional scan for random griefers and so on. And above all, he spends his time in the belt (for obvious reasons). He knows that his worst enemy is the AFK-leech who devalues his products. So when he warps in the belt he checks on the fellow miners, both to join/form Orca-boosted fleet and to find AFK-ers. If he finds one and communication attempts fail for a longer period, he alerts the rest of the miners in the constellation, they relog to ganker alts and dispose the imposter. He won't get too many kills, but he won't mind as he is a miner. The kills are rather a little spice to his mining day. It will also serve as an introduction to PvP for the mainly PvE-er miners. His main activity will be - surprise - mining and socializing. Yes, I promote socializing as it is one level above leeching.
What about the Knights? Well, there will always be need for Knights but not in the number of thousands or even hundreds. A dozen Knights at a time online can keep the whole highsec clear. How? Because they don't have to bother about lone AFK-ing Macks, the miners handle those. The Knights are only called when the bad guys are really bad: bot-fleets, tanked Skiff AFK-er, combat ship protected bait Macks and so on. By the time we get to this phase, the Knighs will improve a lot. Those Knights won't resemble to the rag-tag militia of today. Orca alts will be all around highsec of the various knights, so one Orca can move to position in a few jumps. The Knights podjump to a close station, move to the Orca which deploys a few T2 Catalysts that the Knights mount and dispose the infidel. If the baddie is really-really bad, like a 20+ member botfleet, one of them follow it in covops, a proper fleet is planned for the next evening and the field cleaned up completely.
So yes, the low-meta Cata riding few days old alts of casual gankers have no future. But the active miners combined with a small elite force has. You probably guessed it, the crucial question is "will there be enough PvE players who switch to mining from missioning/ratting"? Only time will tell.
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