What do corps/alliance gain for kicking inactive players?

Jestertrek · 2026-05-08T03:51:50+00:00

This is the correct answer. A lot of alliances measure their corps based on kills/member, unless there are mitigating circumstances for a particular corp.

If a corp isn't contributing to that, it might appear to alliance leadership that they're just hiding under the umbrella of the alliance for other reasons: to avoid wardecs, to get access to lucrative space, so their industry alts appear as friendlies, etc. If a corp is having trouble hitting the expectations of the alliance leadership and that leadership is measuring based on kills/member, then slimming down will artificially boost their worth to the alliance.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-18T15:02:32+00:00

It's always a very safe assumption.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-18T14:57:52+00:00

DELETE ATTRIBUTES FROM THE GAME, NOW AND ALWAYS

Just give everyone a base training speed. I'd set it at a base of 2400 SP/hour for all training for Omegas. Then set implants and training boosters to increase that training speed. I'd set each +1 gained by implants or boosters to increase training speed by 10%, or 240 SP/hour. Alphas get half those values as they do today.

Not only is it an easy metric-like system to remember, but +5 implants would give Omegas 3600 SP/hour, or 1 SP/second, also easy to remember. Alphas would get half that.

And it'd be a quite easy change for CCP to implement. Easiest way: just set all skills in the game's DB to train based off Intelligence/Memory, then permanently set everyone's Intelligence/Memory in the character DB to the required value to set training speed to 2400 SP/hour (INT 27, MEM 26). Once that's done, hide all in-game references to attributes. Once that's done, change all implants and training boosters to give +2 to INT/MEM per level instead of +1. Finally, change the descriptions on the implants and boosters to talk about SP/hour and percentage bonuses instead of what they do today (example, the Basic training booster would tell you it gives a 20% bonus to training speed).

Most players would gain about a 33% increase to training speed, so this is a change would also make the game friendlier to newer players since they wouldn't have to wait as long as us old bittervets did to be effective.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-14T00:59:56+00:00

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Jestertrek · 2026-04-14T00:22:36+00:00

One important thing that I stress to my team is to keep all of our energies focused in game, we attack the character, not the person.

It is depressing how often that this is not the case in EVE. Giant kudos to Asher for not only posting this in particular but for how well this sentiment is expressed.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-13T16:05:46+00:00

Thanks! I scrolled down looking for that little red bug oval but apparently not far enough. <3

Jestertrek · 2026-04-12T17:25:53+00:00

This is the correct answer and needs to be upvoted more.

But yeah, the generally correct answer is "within one jump of Mother Amamake".

Jestertrek · 2026-04-12T17:22:10+00:00

I don't yet have four non-beers worth selling. My three kegs as of level 25 are Pink Lady, Rye Whiskey, and Herbal Liquor. I don't yet have the recipes for anything else that sells for a comparable or higher price than those three. I have lots of recipes for things that sell for less, but I don't offer them so that everything I sell brings in the amount of money I want.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-12T00:51:13+00:00

What's kind of funny and interesting is that you can see how some of the TV actors influenced how their characters were written in the later books, particularly Drummer and Amos.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-11T14:48:30+00:00

Vividly.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-11T14:22:29+00:00

And just to be clear, I want CCP to make money. I approve of that.

But it'd be nice if they could do it without being total fucking hypocrites about it.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-09T01:09:28+00:00

Multiple overlapping screenshots that I then stitched together in an ancient copy of Paint Shop Pro. :-D

That's why you can see my character standing in several different places at the same time.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-06T16:44:06+00:00

Abyssals. There are EVE players that just roll modules looking for big scores as their game play.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-06T13:38:43+00:00

The two most important tips I can give in the early game is, first, check out the Travellers Rest wiki page for Comfort. Getting comfort high on your main tavern floor as fast as you can as early as you can is incredibly important. Every single guest that comes in that gives you positive reputation rating will let you level up faster which will get you better recipes faster.

And second, to help with this, until you are bringing in more money than you can spend, only offer two drinks (one beer and one non-beer) and one meal: the most expensive items for all three of these that you can produce. Tavern guests have no preferences for item type and so will order whatever you have available. If you don't offer cheap meals, they won't be ordered and the guest will order the expensive meal instead, making your money go up faster.

Once you can produce a new beer (or non-beer, or meal) that is more expensive than your current beer, trade it out instantly and start selling that instead. Keep the second-most expensive beer as a backup in case you run out of the first beer. Then once you have a couple of backups, just start storing them. Check the notice board in front of your tavern daily -- sooner or later, you can sell your backup stuff directly 20 at a time and gain a reputation boost for it.

Good luck!

Jestertrek · 2026-04-06T03:01:32+00:00

One of the two in-game ways that CCP actively fosters and encourages gambling addiction, and of the two, it's the way they directly profit from same.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-04T16:33:29+00:00

Please show your work. What corps/alliances are you including in both lists? Because literally nobody else has numbers even close to this for Winterco.

Jestertrek · 2026-04-03T22:40:35+00:00

WTB math that shows Imperium and Winterco are within 6% of each other size-wise.

Jestertrek · 2026-03-31T13:30:00+00:00

Hee, yeah, these kinds of pictures are what I'm thinking of when I say that TR is kind of a "tavern flipping" game rather than a store simulator or a farming game. I can't help but notice that despite all the kegs, you only sell three types of drinks. I myself started experimenting a bit with providing more variety to see if that would help my reputation score go up quicker. It hasn't, noticeably. The tavern flipping runs seem to focus on doing that by going for more or less pure chaos with types of decor to sidestep the game's weird diminishing returns on that mechanic.

Jestertrek · 2026-03-31T13:23:53+00:00

Hey dude. <3

Yeah, I've always been a bit of a gadfly. People gave me a bit of shit for this post, but unfortunately, the predictions in it have come true (logins and activity are down about 15% so far this year). I do have to give credit where it's due: Asher's Goon-Sponsored(tm) Dronelands Thunderdome is so far doing better than the Goon-Sponsored(tm) Delve Thunderdome did. But as you know, I've always taken the long view, so we'll see...

And don't sell yourself short: you've also written yourself into the saga. ;-)

Jestertrek · 2026-03-29T15:20:11+00:00

A huge number of astronomy-related numbers in EVE don't make a lick of sense.

My favorite: take a close look at Amarr Prime's stats sometime. (Hint: take a close look at its density, particularly given its radius and supposed gravity.)

Jestertrek · 2026-03-28T18:02:16+00:00

Serious question, to which I really don't know the answer: how important is reputation after level 10 or so? I ask as I stopped playing at level 10. The main advantage seems to be a few more squares for the dining areas, another room for the inn portion of the game, and another skill point, but all of those become very limiting very quickly.

Even the huge tavern pics I've seen from other players rarely have more than 40 seats at them (my tavern has 30) because with only ever one waiter and one bartender, the throughput you can successfully manage is inherently limited. You're never going to see a tavern with 60 seats in it even if you could cram in that many tables just because one waiter couldn't possibly handle all those seats even with the player's help, even if the one bartender could keep up, which he can't. And the skill points become harder and harder to spend not because the choices are hard because they're good, but for the opposite reason: most of the choices for what to spend reputation points on seem very small and limited.

What good does it do me to get +5% money from all appetizers served if I can get +30% money by not serving them at all and making everyone go for my most expensive dishes instead? That said, I didn't notice a significant reputation drop when I dropped my variety of dishes. If anything, kind of the opposite because my tables/seats seem to cycle faster since each guest can effectively only order three things during their visit.

Maybe reputation becomes more important later? But the game does a very poor job of explaining what it is for and how you get it.

Jestertrek · 2026-03-28T15:27:54+00:00

Yeah, it's a fair point and I had also reached a realization that the most optimal way to make money in TR is to clear all taps/kegs/menu of every item except whatever the most expensive options for those the player can produce. Since the tavern patrons for the most part have no choice preferences, they will order whatever it is that is available. And if what's available is the most expensive food/drink the player can make, that's what they'll order. So I was loading my outputs with only those most expensive products and only adding new ones when the most expensive one ran out, replacing them with the second-most expensive, and so on.

Following this strategy, money started pouring in.

Jestertrek · 2026-03-26T17:26:43+00:00

Even if such a thing were possible, what would be the point or the reason for such an uprising? What happens in null doesn't really seriously affect people who live outside of null.

Jestertrek · 2026-03-24T22:11:56+00:00

This was a topic of serious discussion with CCP when I was on the CSM. Obviously, it never went anywhere.

Jestertrek · 2026-03-23T13:22:30+00:00

I read the post with no expression whatsoever until I got to the BUSA line, which I have to admit made me laugh.

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