EVE General Discussion

Dev's refusal to draw any sort of line. Refusal to talk about any policy. Refusal to admit they derped.

lol

Ah, but ganking does have a legitimate strategic objective: it helps make the economy go round. Why, if carebears didn't have anything to lose they really wouldn't have anything to gain!

Also, in CODE.'s case at least, the ganking spectacle makes them money. Think of it as theatre. I paid for my two tickets and, look! I am entertained!

Probably not with you, he has a mancrush on Baltec1.

All of the above wasn't actually posted by Veers, however it's a pretty accurate summary of his posts IMHO.

Not sure if I completely agree, a player in EvE's role is whatever that player decides it to be. So if they decide to be a perpetual victim that doesn't "need the teeth" required to defend themselves or their interests in this game so be it. But in the end, they will be just that, a perpetual victim.

That said however, I don't think the current state of affairs in balanced because of some of the reasons you brought up. When you have so many multi-year old characters with scads of disposable income and free time because they are "bored" that they aimlessly can throw away ships for the express purpose of ruining another's play experience solely for the sake of ruining another's play experience; I'm not seeing where they are ever truly at "risk," yet they consider to reap the "reward" of their activities.

It is a bizarre universe where missioners, miners and industrialists are at greater risk in high security space than "Highsec PvP'ers". I personally wouldn't mind CCP putting more weight into a persistent system where your actions have more consequence, especially those that result in sec loss, in space that is labeled as High Security. Pirates and criminals should be about as safe in High Sec as a carebear missioner is in low sec in my opinion. I'm talking gate and station lockout in high sec for any action that causes you to go supsect for the duration of the suspect timer to give the victim or third parties a chance to hunt the offender down, doubling the amount of tags required to improve sec status, and lowering the negative status required to be permanently engage-able in High Sec.

Oh the buttery goodness. If only my popcorn also came with bacon.
Did anyone else happen to read the OP's most recent post in this thread?
I'll TL;DR it for you... Enlightened Recantment.
Sooo... given that, the bloody shirt, why is it still being waved?
Propagation of a false notion of safety in highsec is a disservice to every nooblet who plays this game. By championing this cause you are poisoning the very people whom you claim to protect. You do harm by shielding them from the world, and no amount of sperging is going to change the nature of the world into this virtual beary bear paradise you envision for all.
Stahp.

I don't need it I can separate the game from real life whereas you cannot.

All of it, from what I understand. Northern Coalition is also abandoning huge swaths of renter sov.

All the nullsec empires are being forced to consolidate, and to move closer to each other, which should create some nice conflicts and power changes in nullsec at last. The biggest losers in all this will be the CFC/Goons (and who knows if the CFC is even worth keeping anymore), who will now actually need to PLAY the game.

And yet, amusingly, despite your whole diatribe, you apparently failed to realize that I have been victimized neither in Eve nor in RL. So seems I am "fitting" in just fine, thank you. As opposed to the miners, haulers, etc.... who get stomped on by bittervets and quit the game, apparently to the delight of many here.