EVE General Discussion

What a burn. I'm sure someone will throw you the usual F&I forums line.

ANyone else noticing the AI not switching targets hard when someone new warps in on you? I"m not sure but to me it seems like the AI has been tweaked some. My dps toon no longer gets complete room aggro when entering behind my first ship (which usually does get full room aggro lol).

Please explain in detail how sensor strength is going to stop a damp.

Hey folks there is hope!
I just found the solution for scramming frigs if you are in a bs. Fit a micro jump drive!
Then just jump 100km away from scram and when the frigs income again snipe them out :))

Totally not why my post count for the last week/month is higher than the year before.

Sounds good!
Please show us how you take your own advise.

Hint #1: Damps do not affect/are affected by your sensor strength in any way.
Hint #2: The skill offers a maximum of what, 20% at level 5? So doubled sensor strength is probably coming from somewhere else, or you remember it wrong.

I thought Goonswarm was the final boss.

This change has the same effect as spawn camping in an FPS. I am not able to learn how the game plays what skills do what or even learn the map before I am PKd. And it is not something I can brute, or am not willing to brute force through because it takes MONTHS to train said skills. How can I trust that once I train up more skills to do something else that they are not going to make those skills irrelevant so I have to train up more skills.

All I want to do is mission and mine, and you wont have that. you would rather the game shut down than let me do my own thing over in my own little corner. Classic child psychology, you aren't playing with it but you are gonna make damned sure no one else plays with it either. HTFU is the mantra, well here is a new one GrowTFU.

I have not cancelled because I am giving CCP time to fix this and time to make Gallente not be obsolete. Had I actually spent the time to learn those skills I would be livid. LIVID, and would have cancelled without question. Luckily I trained mining first but now I have to go redo my EVEMON and figure out what, if anything, I can do besides mining if and when changes are made.

As you get older you learn that time is precious, time is money. This is still a visceral knowledge, however, and the real time skill training scares the crap out of new players, let alone learning that MONTHS of TIME spent leveling skills will NOT be refunded to reallocate. One thinks that surely a company wouldn't **** off their customers and go for the easy money grab. Did CCP? Part of me says yes but the other part of me sees that they are complacent and content on maintaining the current subscriber numbers. This is completely opposite of every other company out there. Every other company tries desperately to get new players. As I have said, CCP seems to not only not care but actively implement things to prevent new players from being successful, such as this.

I have tried really hard,I mean really hard to get into this game since 2007, over several spurts of playing, CCP simply makes the process really really difficult. The game is stagnant in population. Certainly it grows ever so slowly over the years, and I have argued both ways about EVE's "success" but there are several games coming to market that look to steal away EVE's thunder. Sandbox is the next big thing and EVE, one of the great innovators in the arena is not going to be able to cash in because of their stubborn ways. Adapt or die. EVE will feel the shift and your game may still have its playerbase but other games will surpass it and you will never know what awesome things could have been had EVE captured 1Million or 2 Million subs.

Some of us are here for the sandbox, damn the spaceships and damn the terrible decisions being made but the instant any and I mean any game that is a sandbox and lets new players actually learn the game...I and many of my ilk will be gone from here.

Easy to learn difficult to master is the typical philosophy not "so difficult to learn you have to research and use an external third party program to plan out the skills you will be training for 3 months before you can even do anything, and then we will nerf it, and not refund skill points or time spent training now useless skills" and no I do not think that deploying and retrieving drones via a drop-down menu is in the category of easy to learn difficult to master.

And lets be honest here, this is clearly a strategy for a money grab, we remember monocle-gate and how those tasty hardcore tears devastated..a statue, we also remember what CCP thinks of their players, they are going to make that money somehow, they cant do it via new player assimilation and retention or well have another jita on our hands.

The social mirroring of the US social strat is astonishing. We have the rich elite Goonswarms versus the immigrants and illegal workers with mining and the average every day Joe that works with the mission runners. Lo and behold the elite rule the roost and are in bed with the developers and want the miners and missioners gone because they are not worthy, never mind that they keep the economy running, ships in production and fodder for meta gaming.

Unlike real life, we can leave whenever we want and let you have your paradise. Be careful what you wish for.

Failed to acquire lock because the target is at 103584m and your maximum targeting range is 14346m.

Then, when they close again, you have a 3 minute lock time. A BARGE can cover 14km in 3 minutes.


Do the assault, vs serpentis. Post the hilarity.


Would love to see a tank that can last against 30-40 blaster boats at point blank range long enough to even kill the frigs when you can't use drones.


Edit: In the end I had to use a fast locking cruiser to speed tank it and pop the frigs whilst rewarping to get targets, then bring the BS back to kill the bigger fish, again rewarping all over the place to get targets. Mining was more fun.

It wasn't challenging, it was silly.

Full room aggro vs damp spam.


Do you even know what NPC EWAR is or feels like since this patch?

TLDR is, "So, THIS is how Iceland's financial crisis happened."