EVE General Discussion

I am not convinced that Jita is the State's "largest financial center" in such a way that blockading capsuleers from it causes them huge losses in the long run. Jita is not a hub in the pre-capsuleer PF; it is a hub because capsuleers went there. Capsuleers might leave because of the blockade, but if they do, they will establish another hub in the State, and thus the State does not lose their trade other than temporarily. War might make the whole thing more costly. Obviously, some stationside traders and local government in Jita will be outraged and demand that the State do something... but whether the State cares enough about Jita that has benefited from capsuleers at the extent of neighboring systems for so long, I am not certain of. (Depends probably partly on whether the politicians in charge originate from Jita or not...)

No offense to natives of Jita implied. ;)

(PS. Obviously if CCP decides to make a story out of it that will be awesome and I play along. But if it was me making it, I'd make up some newspiece about authorities in Jita demanding State intervention and State being all handwavy and "the front is that way".)

If they wanted to make an event out of it treat jita like 0.0 for that weekend, have concord step back and let players duke it out in the heart of empire, It can bee a weekend thunder dome. That would be an event worth seeing.

Ooh...cool! So there might actually be more of a chance of "real" fighting rather than just the megagankfest sillinessI thought the gewneez were going to pull after the election?...well...a bunch of tornadoes...hmm...guess we'll see... It is nice of you guys to be coming out here anyway! Very convenient, thanks!
It's good that you guys are gonna shake things up a bit. I mean...you goons are jerks, but at least you're not boring jerks! :D This jita burning thing promises to be interesting.
The mercs of EVE are gonna love you guys! You are gonna make them a lot of money as they get hired by all the various jita folks to defend jita. A pod-goo EVE-economy stimulus courtesy of GSF I'm hoping to get in on a little piece of the action before all the mercs get ya. Should be fun while it lasts, anyway...
Wait...so... GSF is going to sustain a jita interdiction/burning/whatever at the same time as a major nullsec war? Can you guys do that without overextending yourselves? Hmm...is this some kind of metagaming trick? I mean, mittens and his top guys are a whole lot smarter than I am...and if little me can kind of tell something seems weird...wonder what's up?
Well, I do hope you guys..."visit" jita for awhile, anyhow, it will be fun...please?

its not 10,000 votes for him seriously.

Remember the dev blog a while back that said 40% of eve players had multiple accounts? so in reality thats only 6000 people that voted for him.

and even then with over 300,000 accounts in eve online currently active. He still only received 3-4% of the overall total possible votes that could have been casted. So yeah. I made my point.

What are we supposed to do, be FORCED into JITA by some game mechanic ???

How about some more Mass Attack: "Through the constant harassment over the years the high-sec player can really no longer be termed the carebear. These guys have taken beating after beating and you know what, they're still there, truckin along.

You think high-sec-carebear cares? High-sec-carebear is craaaaaazy, he don't give a ****."

Wait, why do we care about Jita?

And why would CCP care if it gets attacked?

This reminds me of Occupy camping Oakland CA, one of the poorest cities in the nation, pointless.

Wait, did I miss something, did CCP say they would stop such an attack or are you people just dreaming up drama?

I'm still gonna stick with Rens, Hek and Dodixie. They're nice places to hang out around...

Seriously, though. There are better places than Jita. Have you ever been to Dodixie? Have you ever been to Hek? Have you ever woken up dead-drunk in a moat? There are better places than Jita. Sure, you can buy anything in Jita. But you can buy almost anything in the other trade-hubs, including things you don't really need anyway. I'm actually looking forward to seeing the evolution on the market, since my other two accounts will be going WH-ward pretty soon anyway to get better ores. Who knows. Maybe EVE will benefit, maybe it won't. We'll never know until it happens. Well, I know. You don't. I know I'm going to use the Goons' irrational and immature behavior to earn lots of ISK myself. Have fun dying in a fire, Jita-folks. I'll be standing in my Captain's Quarters in Dodixie, watching it on the monitor, laughing at your extinction. Maybe then you'll realize that there are better places, cold and muddy moats included.

Nah, ccp outside of their devblog statements about the initial cause of the issue has not given word directly on it. Pretty much unless people try to take it as more than just another type of hulkageddon or other pirate event, We really seriously doubt that there will be. With a month to go until then, most people will know and it will be more of people just shooting eachother more than anything else.

I know you all want to get your panties in a bunch but you do know that there is a precedent for CCP to interfere in this kind of thing that stretches way, way back to launch, right?