Crime & Punishment

As you said, there is pvp, and there are activities to fund and drive pvp. I use missions and salvaging to fund my pvp activities. If you think missions are easy, try to solo a lvl 4 in a t1 fitted Brutix. I've made a number of forays into lowsec which generally end in me being exploded by someone with much higher skills and a shiny ship. I know they have much higher skills because the killmail shows t2 weapons, drones, and ammo; and their warrior IIs are doing 150 dps. Exactly how should I use my brain to defeat someone whose ship outperforms mine in every way because they've played longer? All I can do is choose to not fight, and look for easier targets, or fly in a frigate gang until we get jumped by a bigger blob or a neut/drone infested stratios. Regardless, pvp with my skills and inexperience is going to result in lost ships, and even t1 Atrons add up.

So I need to generate ISK, and I can't do that if my missions are constantly being invaded by bot aspirants running logi support on their 2nd and 3rd accounts. I can either fight extremely unfavorable odds or I can just give them my loot. And having 40m worth of mission loot robbed may not be much to you, with your years old account, but to me it's a serious problem. I should be able to make money without having to fight scumbag griefers who are too cowardly to fight anything but newbies. CCP is not obligated to protect your right to bait and harass people who by simple virtue of the skill system can't fight back. Go find a real fight.

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I run 4's solo in a Drake, you're not particularly special in that regard, many people run them in BCs; some for fun, some because they have poor skills, others because they think battleships are flying turds.

Aww diddums, learn to deal with it or GTFO. You're not the only person whose missions get invaded and their loot stolen, if someone steals loot from you and you engage, their logi support inherits their flags, which means you can shoot at them too, take down the logi, then take down the thief, It's not always a wise idea though. The logi is far more likely to be other players than alts anyway.

I notice that you're in a 30+ man player corp, you could always get on comms and ask them for help, if the mission invader is suspect then anybody, including your corpmates can shoot at them. The corp description says they indulge in PvP so they should be up for some free kills. Set traps, think outside the box rather than moaning on the forums about people stealing your stuff. Or is that too much effort?

With regards to the loss of loot, despite the age of my account, I'm in no way space rich, my current wallet balance is under 200 mill. I play for less than 5-10 hours a week, I make enough to pay for plex and have a little leftover to buy new toys. Losing loot is a fact of life, I factor it into the way I play, the LP store is much more lucrative anyway.

If you're in a BC you're not a newb, although from your attitude you're definitely a noob (these terms are not interchangeable). You're not entitled to make money without interference from other players, sandbox means that you are free to try and play the way you want to, it also means that others can try and prevent you from doing so, because that's the way they want to play. Don't like it? Leave.

They're not obligated to protect you from the attentions of people that want to steal your stuff either. It's not that people can't fight back, they chose not to fight back, that's their choice, stop blaming others for your personal shortcomings.

On a side note, I'm not a so called griefer, I'm actually a highsec carebear, the difference between you and me is that I acknowledge and respect that one of the cornerstones of Eve is that people are free to try and ruin my day, I also accept that Eve is a PvP game, which is why I'll always be better at it than you.

People like you are why carebears have such a bad reputation, stop slurring my chosen playstyle with your idiocy. When you quit, and you will quit, I volunteer to be the recipient of all of your stuff. You come across as a self entitled arse, which will get you all sorts of attention from the people you seem to despise, have fun with that. I'm sure your tears will be of the highest quality.

BTW your use of bot aspirant is terrible, botting is used to complete repetitive and boring tasks, ganking idiots like you requires more interaction with the client than a bot can handle.

TL;DR HTFU and stop whining like an obnoxious spoilt little brat, or foxtrot oscar back to whichever rock you crawled out from under.

It is not back to where it was, as addressed in my post. The change to drone AI has affected more than deployables.

That's just it, Eve is a Darwinian game, it's Lord Of The Flies with spaceships.

Irrelevant, this is a game, whether people decide to play as white hats or black hats has little or no relation to their real life persona. The clue in in the letters RPG tacked onto the end of MMO.

Why should people have to go to low or nullsec? Highsec is just as valid an area for shooting people in the face and is a target rich environment, it just has a few more penalties for doing so. Good luck with both of those things, if you want to come after me personally you can generally find this character in Minmatar space, make sure to bring some friends so I can waste their time while I do some trading.

Irrelevant. The conditions under which you can legally engage without CONCORD intervention are back where they were. The mechanics of this intervention are what define high sec pvp, given the absolute and extreme effect of CONCORD. Drome AI and the like are nitpick trivialities. Since agressive drones bypassed player choice to engage or not, they were never a valid means of generating engagements in the first place. Having drones set aggressive was not "stupid and lazy", the stupid and lazy is in relying on someone else's checkbox choices to get engagements, then crying when the exploit gets fixed.

Find other ways to kill missioners,move along.Eve is ever-changing

Eh, true but somewhat not...

Drones on aggressive is still not a good idea. Things like locking you out of a gate or station, ect.

Hazmat sucks. Nothin like sitting around bottled up with a hose for six hours while the glow-worms rake in the overtime!

If you don't want to sit in a suit at a hazmat incident just ask a coptometer (state trooper) if he thinks there should be flares to mark the area. It's a good way to do a flammability check without breaking out the meters.

J/K, please don't do this.