Well. An interesting debate on corps and farming and sectors as such. I’ll throw in some thoughts - being from a very small corp, i’ve essentially been on both sides of battles…
With regard to DYN farming T2:
Well. dyn folks do show up a lot in T2 games, but they are hardly the only ones. I’ve seen a ton of Nasas, 420s, Pulses, Alphas. Heck - of the battles I can recall, the Dyn people actually played as if they belonged in T2 and had adequate skillset for that. You want to talk about explicitly farming T2 by curbstomping everyone? Say hello to Takamina et al from nasa…
Screw it, most of us play in T2, because it is more fun and dynamic without devolving into “wtf is even happening, everyone just dies instantly / everybody sits and camps forever, taking potshots around structures” that makes up all of T3 I’ve tried… And T2 at least isn’t a net loss when you factor in repairs and ammo resuply. Is that farming?
With regard to sector takeover itself:
There’s two big issues. First - what are the rules? How is a winner determined? How is the next sector determined? Where can I see it *from within the game*? Right now, it’s just ‘lol random’… There’s nothing to explain to normal players, who aren’t in some superbig corps with insider info, how their effort contributes to the takeover and what hinges on what. If I am not in a big corp, if I am just a random player - why shoudl I play sector takeover, if my faction’s biggest corporation will get all the credit anyway? Which leads into…
Second - The problem of sector ownership. Jasan nailed it in the post above - the corp with the nametag on a sector is hardly the only, or indeed (I suspect) even the main factor about winning that sector. A sector shoudl end up corp owned if and only if that corp literally did win out that sector all by themselves, deliberately, in a coordinated assault. Not just being the 5% contributors with everyone else doing 4%, 3% etc. A log of, say, ‘turning points’ in winning that sector over - close battles, unlikely wins, stuff like that - would be brilliant to see as a mouseover window or clickable subwindow on that sector.
