EVE General Discussion

Can I have your stuff OP?

But would you tattoo a bra on your arm?

The OP knows that complaining about 'blob warfare' is the stupidest thing you acn possibly say rite?

It is not up to CCP to balance the game in your favor because you have less friends

Do you really think that the people who object to much of the game's combat being blob-based are all annoyed because they can't get enough friends to compete? News flash: some of us just don't like blob warfare as a playstyle. We like fights where pilot skill actually matters, where you're not just a tiny cog in a large machine, where you don't have to wait ages for your fleet to coordinate. We like a more personal, intense experience in PvP that is not offered by blob warfare.

In my time in EVE, I've done all sorts of PvP from nullsec warfare (fighting in Deklein as part of Northern Stars Alliance at the tail end of the Great Northern War back in 2004, Fountain Alliance when BoB invaded, Forsaken Empire up north, Veritas Immortalis out east, too many others to list) to piracy (BioMass Cartel, Black Rabbits, random juicy targets in lowsec when not actively playing pirate) to highsec wars (Star Fraction, Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams, just about every other corp I've ever been with) to wormholes (most of my more recent corps) to random lowsec PvP (most of my older corps back before solo and small gang PvP fell by the wayside). After all is said and done, I've found that I much prefer small gang and solo PvP (that's "small gang" as in 3-5 people, not today's "small gang" of 10-30) and have come to despise being forced into blob warfare.

Sadly, due to mechanics changes that require more roles to be filled in any fleet that wants to be competitive (see: logistics), a massive increase in player population without a commensurate increase in the number of systems in EVE, and a change in player mindset brought on by the first two, small gang and solo combat has simply been thrown under the bus, making the game far less attractive to people like me.

So no, your "you're just mad because you have no friends" statement is just a bunch of bull. I could step into any one of a dozen large corps/alliances run by old friends if I was interested in a blobbing experience; however, I'm not. IMO, blob warfare is often the preference of those whose skills don't measure up on an individual level. You may prefer quantity over quality, my friend, but I'll have none of it.

+1 for bra straps. Look at my straps guys!

EVE needs to bring sexy back.

or.. wat, wat?

They should remove bra's period! Where I live women can bare there breasts like guys bare there chest. Freedom guys and gals.. Freedom..

Stop letting the game play you and play the game.

Someone needs to ask.

Why you no lika da bewbies?????

It wasn't any single thing, but rather a series of things that keep piling on top of one another.

TBH, I'd have to say the first thing was the full-spectrum hitpoint increase for all ships back in...2006? Basically, all ships got a significant hitpoint increase. The same patch also increased the extra hitpoints granted by armor plates and shield extenders and (I think) introduced rigs. These changes combined made ships far more survivable, which in turn made it much harder to use geurilla tactics to gank an opponent and get out before his backup arrived. This had the unfortunate side effect of beginning the ramp-up in numbers you see in gangs today; with targets taking longer to kill and the likelihood of enemy reinforcements showing up during fights, people started bringing more firepower (read: numbers).

There have been a number of other things that have happened since, such as the introduction of must-have ships such as logistics cruisers (i.e. any gang without them is at a severe disadvantage in most instances), the general speed overnerf (I was one of the people calling for speed tanking to be nerfed, but CCP swung the nerfbat too hard, also hitting ships that didn't need to be any slower, such as BS), the overnerfing of webs (they should max at 75% instead of the current 60%; the old 90% was too much), and the added ability of warp scramblers to completely shut off MWD (they should penalize MWD speed instead of shutting them off entirely, IMO). These and many other changes largely killed generalist ships and forced players into more specialized roles, resulting in an increase in the numbers needed to successfully PvP.

Additionally, there are many other things that have been introduced that have had a dramatic adverse effect on gameplay, such as the way carriers, motherships, and titans were implemented (FYI: I have carrier and dreadnought 5 and own both a carrier and a dread), jump bridge networks, etc. These are all things that contribute to one-sided fights and help push smaller entities out.

At the same time, EVE's population has increased massively without a commensurate addition of new systems; while the Drone Regions, wormholes, and Black Rise helped, they were nowhere near enough. Player population and density has had a dramatic effect on the size of the gangs people fly in. Simply spreading the players out more would be very helpful, but it would require the addition of a massive number of new star systems of all categories, from highsec to nullsec.

I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting to add, but I've gone on long enough in this vein. I don't expect many people to agree with my views, but then I've never cared overmuch what other people think.



Wat? Bolded the important part; 14 is not a small gang. A small gang is 3-5. That many people think 14 is small is just another symptom of the bloat that has overcome EVE.



And you think this is okay? One of the great things that used to be true of EVE is that, as a small entity, you could go out there and make a name for yourself, accomplish something grand. Witness old school Burn Eden - they used to show up in a region of 0.0 and take on entire alliances with only 5 or 10 people. Celestial Apocalypse was another good example. Damage, Inc., Rubra, etc. Hell, Farjung, Ikvar, Drunken One, Dave Tehsulei - these were household names in the EVE community, single players who were known cluster-wide for their capabilities. Now, unless you're engaged in corporate espionage, something like this is largely impossible.

So yeah, keep on promoting the things that prevent players from achieving something epic in the game. EVE's a far smaller and more confining place for it.