Whatever can be done to increase the opportunity for genuine conflict in the warzone is a positive change.

Whatever can be done to increase the opportunity for genuine conflict in the warzone is a positive change.
High casualties were suffered, and for no reason besides personal gain of a few determined members. I couldn’t blame them; we hadn’t been allowed to so much as peek outside the station in over a week.
Regardless of their demoralizing effects on targets, blobs in EVE Online should persist, but with painful and expensive potential consequence that scales exponentially with their size.
I knew that no amount of negotiation with Slaver’s Union would secure our survival. He knew that we weren’t prepared to defeat them in any major defense. The attackers had no reason to stop the assault and so they didn’t. I had no idea what it meant at the time, but I knew that to save ourselves, my tiny industrial corporation would somehow have to fight.