EVE General Discussion

So, after taking a break that expanded 3 expansions, I find myself back in new eden, only to experience this feels;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gC1GiSDDA

The game went downhill after CCP made blobs more important than skill

18 months

shorter server ticks would be a possible (and not completely crazy) answer to that question

1 Hz leaves a lot of room for errors and contributes to fights often being decided on the fitting screen or by numbers.

more "overheat"-like options and less cap stability would probably help, too - active management of your ship's resources should be required even during large fights.

Thank you for displaying that you don't really know what you're writing or why you're writing it.

not going to address the 1 + 1 > 1 strawman, if you want to use pseudo-math then "blobs [are] more important than skill" translates to 0.5 + 0.5 > 1


it's so much "required" that entire fleet compositions are designed to reduce the number of tasks a pilot has to pay attention to (encouragement to let active hardeners cycle at all times, cap stable Drakes, "approach the anchor" over aligning even in sniping fleets, fleet warps over individual warps at all times, Guardians with three energy transfers, ...) and still we win, win, win.

The extra effort required to train pilots to a basic level of competency is a much greater cost than to just recruit another warm body and profit from 0.5 + 0.5 > 1.

You have spent 10 months in waffles so far (and will probably spend another few months before you graduate) - 10 months in which you didn't contribute to alliance efforts (other than in the odd bomber fleet) just so you will eventually perform maybe 20% better (to pull some number out of thin air) in large fleets than your average HBC grunt.

You wonder why waffles have been getting neglected by PL? because you are a horribly wasteful anachronism, because one can train dozens of testies in the time it takes for one of you to get ready for graduation, because quantity beats quality every. single. time.

Take a look at the world around you and your own place in it (and then go afk or join ISRAD like everyone else does).

And in turn so many Battles where one side has less in numbers come out ahead.

Quantity is a factor but only one of four factors to success is EVE War.

Numbers
Experience
Wealth
Dedication


Numbers of course let you mobilize a greater fleet. An advantage maintained by recruitment and player retention. Anything you can do with the other factors you can do more of with numbers.

Experience lets you counter enemy strategies. Wage guerrilla warfare and attack your enemies in area's they don't expect. Fly ships with higher survivability then an enemy that takes the easiest route. Pick targets effectively.

Wealth gives you greater options. They bring Drakes they meet Abaddon's. Collection of resources and dolling them out in the right area's through experience gives you the tools and infrastructure required to tough it out.

Dedication comes in looking at the % of the population willing to fight. If you defeat an enemy fleet with your massive blob and they show up 3 hours later, and again, and again, and again attrition sets in, in a less dedicated enemy. If they are constantly berated by nanoships and cloakies behind the lines and victories do nothing to stop attacks eventually they'll lose participation and even members. Especially if enemy strategies mean you lose more then they do on the line and behind it.


Constant maintenance is required to dominate all four and a power that has more of these then another is guaranteed higher success. Maintaining them all is difficult in themselves and can be tested by an effective enemy. Therefor the powers that maintain them deserve their advantage and the powers that do these things better have a greater chance of breaking their enemy. It isn't the quantity that wins it is the quality, equipment and dedication of that quantity.

I personally like this aspect of EVE. That instead of game mechanics that manage fairness in fights groups must instead manage themselves to create the most power possible through recruitment, training, industry (Not the mechanic but the harvesting of wealth) and to always be pushing forward to keep your group together, interested and active. Balancing the needs of the individual members and the state which holds them together in an effort to create a more unified society then an enemies which everyone in your society could quit and join at anytime if it is better meaning Empires must be competitive.

EVOKE used cap stable drakes; we stole the idea from them.

You left out 7 other critically important things:
Spies
Boosting
Spies
RL Wealth to fuel PLEX sales for "Wealth"
Spies
Not pushing to wrong button at the worst possible time
Spies

Are they? I usually wait for tidi to kick in at 10% then go and make myself a cup of tea or watch a film.
It's a commonly held thought that 0.0 is just a bag o'shite at the moment but you still get the "Oh noes, if people realise 0.0 is a great steaming turd, EVE will die" people basically shouting down or reeling out the usual old arguments.