Just because the shit on my list isn't brand new doesn't mean it doesn't take considerable development resources.

We do things because we find them interesting or challenging. But there is only so much a small corp can do. We tried joining various alliances and had our days and nights turned into a job in game as we tried to meet the often impossible demands of 'serious business.' We've been with three different rental alliances and did fine with our space until some fundamental thing got changed or the landlords got into pissing matches.

We'll survive as long as there is something interesting to do, or someone interesting to watch/assist. But if something starts wasting more time than the benefits accrue, and we can't find a solution/fit/strategy that works, we move on to something else.

It's all about how people handle change. Every one of these changes was played with, toyed with, strategized around, and eventually we just decided that it was time to do something new because we just couldn't do things our way anymore with the size we were.

At least with the mining barge change, ccp gave us the carrot first… But we've become all the wiser that eventually there will be a stick too…

I told you to go have fun. Don't think about profit potential, think about what sounds like fun. Don't bail on it because the income gets nerfed, if you bail on it, do so because its no longer fun, and remember, fun != income potential, or rather, just forget about income potential at all.

If you wanted to make stuff to kill people with and sell to others, then go ahead and do so. Set up a pos, do some invention, eat a bunch of factory line time in those lovely highsec stations, but don't quit because they nerfed something that made it less profitable.

The only thing we don't find fun is actively being aggressive towards others. Self-defence sure, but just going out to find someone to beat up just reminds us all of the 'playground wars' we grew up with. Though Eve has a strong pvp element, we all decided before we subscribed that we wouldn't be the bully in the sandbox, but that we would try to equip the victims (sometimes ourselves, heh) so they could defend themselves. To that end, we have so far been successful. And it's been a fun two years in spite of the changes. It just gets a bit tiresome at times that just as you get trained for something they rip the rug out from under you.

As for picking something fun and just do it, every one of those things was fun until the nerf hammer came down. We tried to weather every one of them…

You do need prep time to do that, which defenders do not always have, and more than that, people don't like TiDi fights much more than the hell that we had before TiDi. Its less painful, but still not as fun as it could be.

And distance does mean plenty when you are the one having to run even 5 jumps through the systems around a fight alone, which is frequently the case(hint, you need a cyno lit in the combat system to open a titan bridge there, and cynos die fast, what with being something you can warp to on the overview).

CFC can do it, but it would be completely pointless. Til recently I was in FA, and FA uses about 20% of their space, the rest is just an annoyance to deal with, and costs alot of extra isk in sov bills.

CFC doesn't want more space unless more people join, that simple. Everyone has a home, and has enough room to stretch their legs in their home systems. More than that just eats into money better spent on other things(like SRF)