EVE General Discussion

I doubt we agree on much at all.

As usual you've leapt the grand canyon to draw your illogical rubbish from a snippet someone else wrote.

As far as what I think about CCP, they are free to do what they want and it's up to all of us to adapt. Change keeps the game interesting, but those that continually cry about other players gameplay choices are a complete waste of space.

You agree completely and then immediately cry about other players.

You could fill Lake Titicaca Tearicaca with all the crying you do.

CCP has already stated that, funny enough, people who get ganked within the first 2 months of playing, are not quitting the game.

No they clearly said people who get ganked play longer.

The majority of gankers are afraid of null sec so just join a nullsec corp/alliance. They don't do well when someone is firing back.

OP, congratulations on your purchase of a new permit, and hopefully they keep their promise and not attack you for the duration. Though sometimes they do.

In any case, don't feel bad that you had to post the link to their ****** website on the forums; it's a requirement of buying a permit, and we'll call you all sorts of names for a while but then it'll pass. It's a good start to the process of getting used to the shame of having given in to an extortion racket.

They more things change, the more things stay the same. That is a very old saying, but like most old saying, it's grounded in the truth.

Years ago it was Goons who were the root of all evil. Every third post on these forums back then was about how goons were bad people IRL and they were killing the game (the game that was growing then) and CCP better do something about them for the sake of new players (though it was NEW PLAYERS complaining on the forums, it was veteran high sec players complaining about their losses) etc etc.

But then I'd see Goons in game as I was almost always in a group opposed to them (Atlas, IT, NcDot, Raiden etc) and I saw how they weren't invincible, they exploded like everyone else, and they weren't worth fearing or even talking about that often. I lost exactly one shuttle to a Goon ganking Thrasher in all my years of playing in high sec. I came to realize that all the forum complain about goons was just hot are coming from mentally impotent people who would rather be victims of something than fight back or at least pay attention to the game they were playing..

Well, nothing has changed. The boogeyman is just CODE now rather than Goons, because it seems the complaining types need something big to fear/hate. CODE is nothing more than a group of people sitting in front of their computers playing a video game and taking advantage of the mental and emotional inadequacies of other people playing the same video game. If one fills in the holes of those mental and emotional inadequacies (not unlike filling in a Resist Hole on a ship you pilot in game), you soon find out that you are immune to the actions and words of CODE.

Why that doesn't happen in game is the same reason it doesn't happen IRL: self reflection and taking responsibility for one's own outcomes is hard, blaming others is easy, even though blaming others leads to even more victimisation...

I'm a hi-sec carebear, or so I have been told.

Recently however, I've been doing a bit of lo-sec mining and I am starting to wonder where it's more risky. Hi-sec with the likes of CODE or lo-sec where, to my amazement most of the systems are empty. I just align, watch local and check out any arrivals, if they look dodgy I just leg it. If I can do that in lo-sec or run the risk of a random attack in hi-sec I know where I'll feel more comfortable.

Perhaps noobies would be better off doing their training and heading out from hi-sec.

Jägermeister is reputed to be a highly-reliable corporate manager. . . quite . . . motivational.
(BTW, love the forum speed. Very...high end. Certainly worth paying for. Uh...what is a "forum gank" again?)

There always is and always will be, another bogeyman.
One needs dark tales to tell the children.