EVE General Discussion

Did you somehow miss the warning from Concord that appears when you try to activate the lowsec gate?

I don't ask friends to scout for me, we take it in turns as required. There's this thing called a cloak, and another one called a microwarpdrive, both are exceptional items that will help you through a gate camp if fitted to a ship suited for the purpose, learn how to use them together to evade a goodly percentage of gate camps (do a google search for MWD Cloak trick, every result that comes back is related to Eve).

Don't blame others for your inexperience, use an empty clone, learn from your mistakes, ask your killers how you could have avoided exploding and treat getting out of lowsec alive as its own reward.

Death is not permanent in Eve, you always wake up in a med clone, all you lost was a cheap ship and possibly some cheap implants, get over it. Eve has a reputation for a brutal learning cliff, you fell off it, start climbing again, the rewards are worth it.

or you could get over it, and make some friends yourself.

LMFAO

Thing is, what would be the incentive to train for a cyno ship? I mean, people like interceptors so they train, or they like covops so they train, or logistics so they train, etc. The fact that your alliance or your main needs cynos isn't an incentive; it's a chore. People will do it because it's a needed thing, but there isn't any fun in it. And so, requiring specialized training just to do this chore seems counterproductive.

Maybe if deploying cynos was a perk of a ship that's already "fun," that may work. You still aren't doing what you like, and you're risking your more expensive interceptor or logistics ship to cyno, but hey at least once it's over you can go do what you like (intercept or heal).

I'd like to see the cyno be a deployable: vulnerable, expensive beacon that sits in space so that you don't have to be immobile, and you can defend it with your ship if you wish.

Remember when a group of rather large bearded guys with Icelandic accents showed up on your doorstep, held a gun to your head and made you subscribe to Eve-O for life. Guess what, that never happened, it was just a dream! L2P

You need to stop making sense...now..no making sense here.

If you want to play a spaceship game by yourself there are much better options than EVE. Nexus: The Jupiter Incident comes to mind, it's gameplay is practically identical to EVE just with a single player focus.

The whole point of an MMO is to have both positive and negative encounters with a wide variety of players in a persistent online world. What it sounds like you want is a space theme park where people can play with each other, but only nicely.

While it's fine to play EVE by yourself (half of my time in the game was spent by myself) you are really missing out on the main aspects of the game and are intentionally putting yourself at a disadvantage. If that's fun for you then do it, but don't complain about people who don't find it fun.

I love the multiplayer aspect and my suggestions prove that multiplayer can still exist with game mechanics improvements. I am constantly surprised at how many pvpers are really just risk-adverse carebears in disguise. A pvper who prefers blobbing solo pve ships is just a carebear with a disruptor; brave in numbers, scared of his own shadow.

Let's just nerf jump range so it takes longer to get anywhere and it's less fun to do anything all because a few people think it makes the game too small.
K.

RE: 6 - POS

A POS is simple to run. Should be even easier now that there are fuel blocks than what it was when I had one 3 years ago. I ran a large faction tower in hisec with a partner using my research alt, was a 2 man corp operating the tower, yeah we had my main (the char writing this) to help using an orca on refueling day which we did when the tower was at 50%.

The thing is we kind of went over kill on our POS you don't even have to have guns. A regular tower is so cheap really that if you get war deced you can use an outside of corp alt to clear out what you want and let them destroy the tower if they really want to waste time. Our research alts only went to the pos to switch out blue prints or to transfer fuel from a fueling ship, Otherwise they never undocked. Not really worth war decing that type of corp. And we never got war deced while I was involved. Later my partner got deced but dismantled the POS to avoid losing it. Wasn't really any strategic purpose for the dec hi sec moons aren't worth anything since you can't mine them.

It's incredibly hard to kill large towers in hisec.

Not many ways to fix that type of greifing though. Better to just let them take the tower and ignore em. While they shoot it use and alt to pick up mods within the shield. And laugh as they complain they cant shoot the alt, other than using suicide gankers =).