EVE General Discussion

To this day I really don't understand why Citadels aren't vulnerable during their anchoring period. As it stands right now you could driveby drop a Citadel in a system with 500 reds and only have to worry about the 15 minute window while it onlines. It makes absolutely no sense.

This same weird mechanic made it possible for PL to attack a Keepstar from 1000km away by anchoring a citadel on top of it that the defender couldn't counter in any way.

Seriously, dropping Citadels should be a serious commitment. Something that can/should only be done in places where you can actively defend it while it anchors. If you're not committed to defending your big ass space station for at least a couple of hours then you have no business putting one up IMO. Not saying it should be vulnerable for the full 24 hours, but 15 minutes is just laughable. Make it at least 3 hours, though I'd be more inclined to make it 6 or even 12. If Citadels are going to be used offensively the defenders should at least have a reasonable timeframe to blow it up while it anchors. The mechanics right now make offensive structure dropping WAY too powerful.

First rule of economics is people respond to incentives.

CCP keeps going back and forth on stagnant nullsec. They say they want an active dynamic nullsec, but only make changes that further stagnate it.

My opinion, my belief in what will actually make the nullsec game interesting in a way it hasn't been in nearly a decade, is balance it around the assumption that a nullsec alliance should have a lifespan of about 6 months. Any longer and the inherent corruption of human nature would cause them to implode, creating a constant stream of opportunities for new groups that form out of the remains.

CCP will never do this. The nullsec blobs of tidi tediousness are the center of CCPs marketing campaign, and that lie is a big part of what will eventually kill off EVE. It requires a stagnant nullsec to happen, even though it goes entirely against the idea of the individual and the tribe being able to accomplish anything, it subsumes the individuals story by-and over writes it with-the story of the alliance in a way that makes it meaningless and impersonal.

CCP's lie that they want a non-stagnant nullsec will forever be a lie. Instead, the long term plan is to develop new things to make stagnant with the nullsec cancer.

who said otherwise? That said people have been making the same complaint for the 10 years I've been playing Eve.

Really? Come here and rant when someone or a group of someone's takes the logical next step when a power vacuum is created in null sec?

Take the time to do something new, create something new. Anytime an "apex" predator leaves an ecology through becoming extinct or otherwise moving to climbs that are better suited to their biology, a vacuum is created. That vacuum is then filled by the next in line predator.

What exactly makes you think the situation will not change? What makes you think other corporations won't fill the void and exploit the situation to their benefit like the previous corporation?

CCP created a nearly perfect sandbox where in power fluctuations between varying groups of people occur. Power changes hands. New corporations move in, temporarily or permanently depending on the corp.

It is refreshing to see one constant, the players with entitlement issues.

As much as I can't stand [CODE] they fulfill a much needed purpose in this game..... keeping the biomass recyclers running....

Sadly for every entitled alpha player you pop, another 5 take their place......

Does not appear to be stagnant.

Eve Online territorial maps 2007-2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcS4n09SRfQ&t=12s

Prior to Citadels this was all but gone (CCP aimed for capital fight escalations to be reduced and were pretty much spot on in what they saw as the anticipated consequences).

The combination of the jump fatigue introduction and Aegis sov mean that capitals were dying at their highest rates in a long time due to much more regionalised conflict and the greater willingness to use them because they couldn't be blobbed from across the map. Aegis sov itself broke the need for large fleets up.

It reached a point where veterans, rightly so, wondered what the game held for them anymore, because the development in the last couple of years had focused on small ship meta and small fleets.

CCP then abandoned the plan to extend the entosis link use with Citadels, to reintroduce the need to shoot something and the blob has come back again, but really only for structure bashing.

Sov war is still small ship/gang focused in general. Blobs will still win, but small fleets also win now too.

Last time I checked, the only actual benefits of owning sov are as follows:

1: Supercapital Production.
2: Sov Fuel Bonus for POS Towers.
3: Mining/Ratting iHub upgrades.
4: Cyno Inhibs.

That's basically it as far as I can see.

I imagine the Blue Danube playing as players waltz.

CCP conducting the orchestra as players mingle and dance between the stars.

*sighs admiringly*

There's not a lot we can do about large alliances and their effects. We can choose to be particles in a blob, or not, and then talk to CCP about it here.

It's the same for other multiplayer games, the biggest group wins, mostly.

Sorta like life. Bigger groups have more efficiencies, lower unit costs, more options, can share the load more evenly. And the list of advantages goes on.

All you can do is avoid parts of the game where the blobs roam.

I have a theory that this is why zombie movies are so popular, not because we see ourselves as heroes, but because we identify with the zombies.

There's a difference between not having to worry about PvP and being prevented from doing anything else.

Don't be silly, we all know that all those 'new' players (not veterans creating new accounts, nuh uh, no way sir) don't all have Super Capitals on standby?

The ever increasing gap (unless you are a member of the Walton family of course) continues to widen???

Are you trying to tell me that CCP's only interest is the exact same core of d-bag alliances that have plagued the game for the better part of the last decade and have driven thousands of players out of the game because of the very tactics you describe???

CCP says welcome to Eve Online.