EVE General Discussion

The "casual players" got a fantastic and unprecedented reward here.
CCP is more or less handing them massive amounts of isk.
It's only fair that there's some balance to it (e.g. gankers). Crying about it just makes you a supreme ****.

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But really, XP EVE players need to upgrade, and I hope Microsoft releases all security exploits when they pull the plug in true evil Megacorp fashion.

Also OP, use your falcon alt to jam the gankers.
That is secret to success, always use falcon.

It's not the first time CCP Ytterbium has said something dubious.

A Catalyst (hull only) costs roughly 1/60 of a Talos, and the guns are cheaper as well. A meta 0 guns/damage mod fit Catalyst costs under 2 mill total and does 430 DPS overheated with faction AM (cheap since you don't have to buy much, maybe 30 seconds worth at most). A similarly fit Talos does 1050 DPS overheated with faction AM and costs ~85m.

…which means it's a PvP game where people should not be shocked when PvP happens to them. So why are they?

After all, if it's a sandbox game that includes PvP, then it's no longer your choice whether the PvP will happen to you or not, or it would no longer be a sandbox at all.

You forgot to mention that everybody who shoots at an unarmed target in a computer game is actually a psychopathic follower of Charles Manson, with no regard for human life.

Shame on you

oh ho

To be fair the only alternative would be to remove the SoE L4 agent from highsec (instead of, you know, adding more of them).
But imagine the TEARS that would cause.

Edit: Actually, that's not the only alternative. The other alternative would have been not to add these ships at all, or to add them for another faction which doesn't have agents in highsec. The Syndicate, maybe? I don't know if they have highsec agents.

Forget tears and isk, these ships seem designed to enable non null players to creep into null and scratch up some treasure. To me it seems the whole point of the Rubicon patchspansion, i really hope it encourages some hisec people to paddle out to deeper waters. Sure it's cold at first, but it's so refreshing. Big fish and big loots don't belong in the wading pool of empire.

There's nothing you can add to the game that won't be;
A) immediately snaffled by the already rich to make themselves richer
2) used by optimising ocd outpatients to scratch up slightly more hisec crumbs
D) converted by morbid dingbats into a harvesting tool for isk and tears.

None of the above are what these ships or this expansion is about, the opportunity to ninja null loot that will enable even more adventure is right there in front of the adventurous, competent and organised. All of whom could probably be stuffed into a minivan without tootin the horn, it seems.

They already had other, more effective ships to do that with.
T3 can already get the scan probe bonus, the data/analyzer module bonus, and the covert ops cloak (with a significantly less reactivation delay), plus immunity to non-targeted interdiction. Of course after all these are fitted to the ship, the Stratios may well be better suited to combat at that point.