Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Flying NRDS is far more exciting and fulfilling than NBSI. NRDS is EVE on Elite-mode. I can understand that people want to play safe and shoot anything that is not blue to them -NBSI, you are just scared that this neutral that jumped inn might popp your little shiney ship.

And on NRDS needing some special tag - No

Great idea. Totally wouldn't ruin the entire game and have the likes of EA salivating at the prospect of buying up CCP.

But, it's easy to find out who is KOS... Why do we need this?

Methinks your sarcasm meter needs a recalibrate.

NRDS is Eve on 'I can't actually win' mode. GG CVA.

Kick them around all you want. As a pround member of their KOS list since 2007 (I renew my sub often) I will say this - they are the only group that has remained immune to the blue donut garbage. They are the only group that will reliably fleet up and defend their space (you can argue how good or bad they are at it, but that argument has been going on since before I joined the game and they still hold provi).

What you call "I can't win" mode has been holding pretty much 2 regions of space for longer than anyone else has held anything. I'm not actually seeing your point.

I love provi. I love CVA. We've been shooting at each other for over 5 years. I love NRDS and their KOS list. What they do works for them. It works for me and it works for the thousands of other pilots on both sides of that huge unmanagable list for many years. That's THOUSANDS and MANY YEARS.

If you can't find a fight anywhere else - you can ALWAYS go to providence. It's the ONLY null alliance that hasn't gone all risk averse and the other crap.

On topic - we don't need some new mechanic to make standings easier or better. They are fine as is.

I like NPC null, it's like the wild west

If we want to go this route, rather than having Blue, Lt Blue, Grey, Orange and Red. Just give Alliances, Corps and individuals a color pallet and allow them to designate what each color means. (Not Mauve, Don't Shoot. Not Fuchsia, Shoot it... )

Coming from him, no, he meant it for reals.

It was sarcasm. Actually it was that anger fueled how could someone possibly be so obtuse sarcasm. The kind where you're still irritated even after you mock them. Normally I can stay detached and giggle at others (check the freighter bumping thread I lost interest in yester.... that baltec1 guy..... pure gold).

My point w/ CVA and 7 and the others out in providence. I don't think they their fundamental principles are awesome. I don't think their space is awesome. I don't think they are awesome at pvp.

I think what they do for eve is awesome. Quite a few good groups of guys (corps and alliances) have cut their teeth in providence on both sides of the CVA KOS list. Their NRDS policy has done a lot for the game. If you could pull up a graph of pilot activity and pvp across all of null over the last 2 or maybe even 3 years... they stand out. As the blue donut formed up and folks rented 0.0 PVE content, they kept the faith.

I'm a wh gal, so I have pretty much equal access to all of null on a random whim. Last night I had simultaneous incoming wh from Tenal, Vale and Esotaria so your 'providence is easy access' assumption is a bit off. As a corp that has been poking my nose in to all of null randomly for several years, let me lay it out for you.

Drone regions: It's pretty much been farmville from the beginning. You want to find a dead end system w/ 60 large T2 bubbles and insta docking/logging locals? Go to the drone regions. You can't get fights.

NPC null: It's always been good for fights. The guys that love the game, love null and love pvp w/out politics live here. It's always been the space for the up and coming (or second, third or fourth coming of - tri for example) alliances form up before taking their place in SOV null. You can get fights here. If you're small gang you can get in over your head pretty quickly.

SOV Null: pretty much empty. There are pockets here and there of activity. My take is folks rent the space. Wooot wooot over easy null isk. They get space rich. They get bored. Activity drops and the renters fade away. New renters move in. It's a bad cycle for eve, I'm glad it seems to be ending.

I'm happy to see the map starting to light up a bit more w/ actual meaningful pvp post jump fatigue. As the APEX fleets get worn down in numbers over time - I'm hoping the game gets more playable in null. Time will tell.

My real point about CVA and crew is that their NRDS policy has generated a lot of content for a lot of folks over the years. Wether you, me or the next guy like or agree w/ said policy doesn't matter. They are doing good things for the big big we and they've been doing it for years. I have a lot of respect for all the work they've done to that end. A lot of folks pooh pooh them and throw rocks. Is it irony that folks have been saying they suck for 8+ years???