EVE General Discussion

A recent post by CCP on Facebook shared a link to a killboard kill. The loss a 22bil freighter, to a empire suicide gank using 6 T1 battlecruisers. It would appear that CCP marketing think its a good thing to humiliate a player via facebook. It should be noted that it’s not allowed to post killboard links in the official forums. Double standards is not new to CCP and maybe the continual decline in player numbers is causing them to resort to desperate measures to market the game.

CCP have locked threads, containing a kill board links in their official forums where posting is restricted to “paying” members however they are happy to not only endorse the humiliation of a player in public , but use this as a marketing tool.

I would question why CCP would sanction such a move. Are they now telling everyone that in 3 months you and a few mates can have the skills to cause someone to suffer such a loss? Are they now telling everyone that 3 month old alts can fund their game play with a little empire suicide ganking if they get lucky. Maybe they been taking lessons from the Goon Marketing Department, we know how much they just love to publicly humiliate other players.

I was told some time ago that creating disposable suicide alt accounts was not allowed and bans could be applied. Let’s do the sums for a suicide alt: Skills, 3 Months Plex and some ships. Cost £3bil. Income £10-20 bil before sec status hits -5 or CCP take action. Delete account, start again. No Risk, High Reward.

It would it appear to me that CCP are no longer marketing a game that used to be based on strategy, skills, risk, planning to one of quick and easy wins, no risk and little skill, otherwise known as console gaming and I wonder why? How much have CCP risked on Dust? In order for Eve to work with Dust are we going to dumb down Eve? Will skill points, experience, planning and large scale team work no longer matter.

Looks to me like CCP has lost its love of Eve in favour of the mass market that console games can access. Question is should Dust fail what impact will it have on Eve? Wonder how long before CCP offer cheat codes and vanity items become more than a just a pair of boots.

Maybe your misfortune will be CCP's next victim in CCP humiliation of their paying members, thats how much they value you.

So, following CCP's lead, I have sold my Capital BPO's and I have taken down my POS's. I have 3 suicide alts in training. Will share my success / failure at Xmas.

I have one question, 2 really.

1. What does facebook have to do with these forums?
2. Where is your proof of declining numbers?

I think this is a good thing too.


This is a good plan. Godspeed, sir!

I had no idea about this until the OP posted it. Thanks OP, I'm off to FB to taunt the loser.

So it's for people carrying 20 bill of cargo in a freighter?

"my freighter runs aren't absolutely free of risk, therefore, eve online is no longer a game of strategy, skills, risk and planning"

>no bubbles
>no titan bridges
>no cynos
>no supercaps
>no massive blobs
>T2 ships and such can legitimately be fielded in a multi-role fleet

Yep, just another day in boring highsec in which the war is the same. Oh boy I wish I had structures to grind and maelstrom blob CTAs to attend.

Trashing an alt with ANY negative sec status, (doesn't have to be -5) is an exploit and will get you busted.
And the nice thing about "disposable" suicide alts is they are reusable. Just have to grind some sec status or keep moving.

Ah those never dying logical fallacies , the "people in eve are doing things I don't like so sub numbers will fall because everyone is just as offended as me" one and the "it's so wrong for 6 COMBAT ships to be able to kill a single but very expensive UNARMED INDUSTRIAL ship" one.

I don't know which is worse.

I don't see the problem. oh wait no loot was dropped that was the issue.