EVE General Discussion

You're doing it wrong.

Imagine this - we are immortal capsuleers, so far beyond ordinary humans that we no longer feel any connection with them. When you have the budgets of empires and spaceships that could burn planets, what would you actually want to do. Have fun obviously and conflict is fun.
It's very meta.

Shooting ships might help with that. You'd need a good intel network to identify targets carrying that module and gank squads to blow them up






Or you could just try to corner the market? Buy all of the orders <500M and control the supply. The volume traded isn't that high.

They benefit from PvP in general, but their personal contributions to PvP are negligible.

Pod loss is an isk sink. You have to update your clone and if you have any implants those cost isk.

Hmm I hadn't thought about scanning ships for c-types and then suicide ganking them. Seems like too much effort for too little effect though. For a long while I've just been contesting Caldari hisec combat exploration sites as much as I can when I'm online. I figure that is where the majority of the c-type invulns come from, the people running the hisec 4/10s. Stealing their loot, blowing them up if they shoot at me. The goal is to discourage people from running the sites in Caldari hisec. There is more competition there, and more of a cutthroat attitude being developed among the exploration pilots there it feels like. I thought maybe if the environment turned nasty enough, the number of explorers would drop and the prices would raise again. But the value of the invulns has not rebounded. Still, its an example of "ruthlessness" for the OP, or having a goal, rather than blowing up ships for no reason at all.



It looks like it would take about 30bil ISK just to clear out Jita alone. More ISK than I have. Now accepting donations. :)

The gameplay is open to everyone, b ut I would caution the OP against perceiving Eve as a game where the object is to make ISK.

It can be, sure, if you want to play the game that way. But Eve is about way more than ISK, for most players. The great thing about Eve is that you can play a lot of different games, depending on your choice, or even many different games at once.

In the final analyses, most of us are far better off doing one more hours work each week and buying PLEX for ISK, than we are trying to earn the same amount of ISK in game. That is true no matter who you are. Even if you are super ISK profitable, if you added up all the hours you have spent getting there, you probably would have made more delivering papers or washing cars on a weekend.

ISK is a reward system, and a metric for warfare. When big alliances go to war, they are inflicting a metric loss and suffering a metric loss. So ISK becomes the overall score card for wars. As in life, many wars are lose lose, and many third party corporations grow rich from such wars.

Finally, stop and think about the time the big alliance members are putting into noob recruitment and fleet protocol training. These are high skill people, and they are devoting hundreds of hours towards the long term welfare of their corporations and alliances. If you value the time of these players at their hourly salary rate, and then convert that to ISK, you find we talking about commitments of thousands of trillions of ISK.

It is worth keeping in mind, if you get cranky because you lose a battleship with mods that cost about five bucks real world money.

Everyone puts in, and we all take out. It is the nature of the sandbox.

But I adore Mr. J.

What! A CODEy worshipping the Joker? I can't believe it! /s

Joke aside, I think I have been looking at the problem the wrong way. In EVE, the only point of blowing spaceship is the one you want to make. Still, I wish we could fight over more things.

Imagine turf wars for mission agents or belts in high-sec...

I find it amazing and sometimes a little shocking how many people do actually and genuinely not seem to understand this.