The guy put together a weekend of fun and good times for literally thousands of his 'closest friends'. Even if they lost ten times the ships they did, the CFC further solidified their camaraderie and morale by spending this weekend warping around Jita, laughing and dying together with not a care in the world for isk lost or 1337 killboard efficiency nonsense.
The long-term effect is not so much Jita prices. What he truly achieved here can't really be graphed.
I completely agree with you about the incentive to push into someone else's region. That said, I think the moongoo 'rebalancing' that saw Dyspro/Promethium replaced by Technetium as THE production bottleneck was something CCP didn't think through (shocking, right?). What kinda sucks is instead of having systems in far-flung backwater systems where if you wanted to hold a monopoly you would have to be on standby at all hours ready to deploy to some faraway system (which, unfortunately, isn't such a big deal when supers can cross the galaxy, blap all the dreads and be back home literally hours before even the zippiest interceptor was halfway there. Ugh. Supercapitals are literally the antichrist.) to defend your stuff.
Keeping all the cashcow moons in one segment of the map is kinda counterintuitive on CCPs part. I've personally seen CFC Tech moons in Syndicate seized by relative nobodies and never defended or reclaimed because effort, apparently. Those nobody moons will now be fought over by other nobodies, but there ~will~ be fights generated on a regular basis as they change hands back and forth which is pretty great. Were Tech - or whatever future bottleneck arises should CCP attempt to 'rebalance' again - to be roughly distributed across the galaxy, but still heavily favoring certain regions to allow for both major regional power plays AND slug-outs between locals in remote backwaters (like the aforementioned moons in Syndicate), that would just be nifty neat.
The guy put together a weekend of fun and good times for literally thousands of his 'closest friends'. Even if they lost ten times the ships they did, the CFC further solidified their camaraderie and morale by spending this weekend warping around Jita, laughing and dying together with not a care in the world for isk lost or 1337 killboard efficiency nonsense.
The long-term effect is not so much Jita prices. What he truly achieved here can't really be graphed.
I completely agree with you about the incentive to push into someone else's region. That said, I think the moongoo 'rebalancing' that saw Dyspro/Promethium replaced by Technetium as THE production bottleneck was something CCP didn't think through (shocking, right?). What kinda sucks is instead of having systems in far-flung backwater systems where if you wanted to hold a monopoly you would have to be on standby at all hours ready to deploy to some faraway system (which, unfortunately, isn't such a big deal when supers can cross the galaxy, blap all the dreads and be back home literally hours before even the zippiest interceptor was halfway there. Ugh. Supercapitals are literally the antichrist.) to defend your stuff.
Keeping all the cashcow moons in one segment of the map is kinda counterintuitive on CCPs part. I've personally seen CFC Tech moons in Syndicate seized by relative nobodies and never defended or reclaimed because effort, apparently. Those nobody moons will now be fought over by other nobodies, but there ~will~ be fights generated on a regular basis as they change hands back and forth which is pretty great. Were Tech - or whatever future bottleneck arises should CCP attempt to 'rebalance' again - to be roughly distributed across the galaxy, but still heavily favoring certain regions to allow for both major regional power plays AND slug-outs between locals in remote backwaters (like the aforementioned moons in Syndicate), that would just be nifty neat.
Or something like that, idk v0v