Brilliant War Time Economic Model

Until I started looking into the war in the North, I didn't fully appreciate the brilliance of the GSF fleet doctrine and approach to war.

As ISK has proliferated in game, T2 ships have become increasingly popular and, relatively speaking, cheaper. This is sort of a "quality of life" improvement or a "rising standard of living" and, in and of itself, represents an interesting real world dynamic. But as that occurred, Technetium became more and more of a bottleneck. Leading to the inevitable conclusion of OTEC which was a mutual non-aggression and pseudo mutual-defense agreement in the north with the various holders of 90% of the Tech.

Enter NCdot and their breaking of the OTEC treaty. Their fleet doctrine was beamHAC centered. Lots of Zealots. These are T2 ships. They have significantly higher fitting requirements and cost significantly more than a T1 ship. The Goons, on the other hand, have a lot of younger pilots (younger in the "lower Skill Point" sense of the word). They fly Drakes which you can competently fit and fly after 15 days of training and you can expertly fit after about 2-3 months. They cost about 1/4th of a Zealot and have about 1/2 of the training time (maybe even less).

It's important to note that T2 ships cost tech to manufacture. So as the war of attrition wore on, Goons were, in essence, driving the price of Tech up, making more from their tech supply. NCdot would have benefited from this as well but because they were plowing it back into (now more expensive!) T2 ships, the increase was either break even or greatly reduced. Goons on the other hand were getting richer in real terms. This inevitably lead to the attrition favoring the Goons and the fight slowly shifting to favor them. They've now captured MORE of NCdots Tech moons and stand to come out even further ahead. Since they've begun to take Tech from NCdot, essentially NCdot is paying the Goons to blow them up. Every time an NCdot Zealot is killed, goons get a little bit richer.

I don't know if it's intentional as a business/war model. But it's brilliant if it is. Well done Goons!

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