EVE General Discussion

The mechanic is multiple accounts and multiple individuals.

Example: Only one of my accounts' eligible characters burned Jita, while many individuals did not participate at all.

It's not a problem with mechanics. The CFC just has more than one or two dudes.

I think the onus of proof is on you?

There are safe places throughout the eve universe. They are called stations. I suggest you find one and stay there until theo bad scary men go away.

I stopped reading after this sentence.

No one said you couldn't go in.

I've been playing this game since 2005, I've read a lot of dumb crap on these forums.

This is probably the single most absurd thing I've read. I feel like I'm being trolled by Salvador Dali.

The whole post is it's own answer. To anyone who knows anything about the ideas behind a 'sandbox' like Eve, this post doesn't raise a single point worth any consideration. Every single argument being made is like a perfect distillation of all the different types of whining that crops up repeatedly in the forums from people who don't get it.

Just seeing someone start a complaint by suggesting that the game 'is a little bit too much like real life' makes my brain warp like I've been drinking PCP Koolaid. *that is the whole freaking point you dim, dim person*.

Many people think that the real problem is the lack of space-sim MMOs so people don't have a choice. People like the OP would probably go play somewhere that was WoW in space, if they could.

But one of the things that make the 'real life' hardships of Eve much more interesting is that there are plenty of people playing who would rather be somewhere else, but have no choice.

In that respect, it's also a lot like real life. I like that.

So, while in some ways it would be good for the players if CCP had a serious competitor with a 'safer' universe, it would also make Eve a bit more homogenous and less interesting, IMO.

Much respect for not going NPC alt route with it then

@ Kurai

CCP has always had this stance from the day Eve Online was first released to the public, which was 9 years ago. Since then, the subscription has grown while operating under such conditions. Eve Online is also the one MMO where all the evil players can come in and play with knives in a sandbox with so little rules that it has been a cultural understanding that CCP trying to interfere or stop an event like Burn Jita is blasphemy. Hell, this is a cultural understanding that CCP made clear from the beginning.

If you don't like it, then by all means leave this place for your own sake. In fact, you and me disagreeing is also part of the game. We are suppose to be chaotic. We are suppose to be enemies. We are suppose to experience destruction. And we are suppose to try to control the market and push it to its limits.

So please, adapt or die. That is the law of the wild. You don't go into an Amazon rain forest and expect the piranhas, snakes and spiders to just leave you alone when you turn your back on them. If they can kill you, they will do it the first chance they get.

Yeah, this is it. And your God has given you all the nerfs you could ever want, and it still isn't enough. So you whine to your god to get rid of the piranhas and snakes and spiders, and he does it and it kills off an entire ecosystem.

Well, CCP seems willing enough to oblige. Or has, just because they think the ganking is great doesn't mean they won't up CONCORD.

But making CONCORD appear faster or kill faster wouldn't help if we alphastrike gank.

Yep. Well usually you don't see so much lag and high TiDi around highsec, but I guess next time some big player run event occurs we'll have dodged that one.

As an industrial player I don't want to get ganked, but I definitely want there to be the potential of getting ganked. And this event certainly shows just that.

If anything Burn Jita was a perfect example of what a sandbox is all about. Players creating an event without some scripted system providing it to them. I hope it'll encourage more alliances to follow in its footsteps.