EVE General Discussion

Bounties don't turn off CONCORD. So, if they're flying Macks, then the bounty reward is probably not worth the hassle of trying to gank a Mackinaw in highsec. Bounties are a bone thrown to the PvPers, while the ability to collect bounties is made ever more difficult in highsec space.

Me placing a bounty on a bunch of miners (or unistas) has nothing at all to do with xferrable kill rights.

Except that both are being proposed for the next expansion.

I know. Killrights will affect highsec PvP to a very small degree (carebears rarely do anything that gives people killrights on them), and bounties will have some small effect too. But nothing that outweighs the added safety being given to that area of Empire.

I doubt it very much. The temperature has been increasing very slowly. Most players won't realize the effect the "green" switch will have on the game going forward.

Which they immediately undid with the utterly excessive/needless mining barge HP buffs, and will further undo with the "idiot-switch," and that ill-conceived suspect-flag.

Please:

Do you people seriously think that the only ones who will use this safety-whatsit are newbs who aren't yet, but want to become, ready for free-PvP, and use that to intelligently approach it in small doses, going up as they feel more comfortable and get more experience*?

Do you, really?

The real world (pardon the pun) doesn't work like that.

All of what the OP calls the super-bears will keep the diaper on so they can mindlessly carebear/bot in even more perfect safety, whilst losec remains the ghetto it is, whilst zerosec remains the insufferable circle-jerk fest of immature dickbags that it is, and whilst the bottom drops out of the mineral- and TI built-goods market. Again.

Unless CCP plans to massively nerf hisec income, which I highly doubt they will do, given that they want to keep their aforementioned (PLEX-paying, in many cases!) super-bears safe and happy, no?

Advice to industrialists: Start unloading your inventory soon, not Soon(TM), your investment's return-potential is about to tank (and I don't mean in the way that involves raw regen and resists, either.). Especially if you keep your account/s financed through PLEX, as all that money chasing same or increased demand with more subscribers...I don't the see PLEX-market's bottom dropping out from under, ooooooh no.

Maybe it's time to join a wormhole corp.? I don't see anything good for the long term future of known space, and especially 0.1+ rated space coming from this, except maybe in-the-moment cheap thrills courtesy of the suspect flag (Guys like Solstice Project should have a field day with this, but it strikes me as becoming rather...hollow...over the long-term.)

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*At least, I'd like to think that that is CCP's intention here, at least partially. The 40-year-old cynic in me who has some understanding of how/why businesses do what they do, however, knows better.

That's how we all learned --often, painfully-- and make no mistake, we are the better for it, as a community, and EVE is the better for it, as a game-world and a gaming-experience.

Oh, and sandbox video-game based Internet-community =/= real world army or training for same, FYI.

EVE itself is nothing more than a clunky, ****-poorly implemented, increasingly-archaic, and fundamentally quite simplistic game, with a few pretty (but atrociously resource-hogging) visuals and ship-models.

Us "old guys" are what have, and continue to make it rise above itself, despite CCP, not because of it. It's worked for damned near 10 years, because if it hadn't, and if another scifi/space-based sandbox MMO had existed in that time, then the servers would have gone dark years ago:

There just isn't enough there for anything but a free-form, community-driven fully-open sandbox, and I suspect that EVE soon won't be the only game in town anymore:

Alternative One.
Alternative Two.
Alternative Three.

Happy anniversary, Ultima Online: Trammel, and StarWars: Galaxies (NGE edition)...It was fun while it lasted.

My my, Trammel. Who plays there nowadays?

Or you can distill my admittedly rather emotional ::Wallsoftext:: to their essence, and you get ^^that.^^

But hey OP don't you have soundwave to thank for your FW fortune? Why don't you try to make a honest living like us freighter gankers.