EVE General Discussion

Highsec pvp corps like I think Moar Tears, 0rphanage, NOIR. and whichever other ones. Some of them docked too fast to actually fight, but I think they are pvp corps.

As for alternatives, I mean instead of playing via the wardec system, many players in highsec simply choose to gank. In a sarcastic manner, I was pushing for people to be gankproof in highsec, meaning that all attenton would be on wardecs rather than CONCORD response time and such.

We are lucky, because GW2 will be out with real and fun and competitive PvP well before those 2 years.

Just because tears aren't the primary objective doesn't mean we don't appreciate them. But yes plenty of fattys hanging out w/ the gazelles.. we'll take them too. Why not?

It's the exact opposite and you have no idea that it is.
It is cheaper to wardec smaller organizations, then larger ones. CCP has made an incentive to keep doing exactly what you are condemning. Please use your brain more so I can stop explaining this to everyone

They won't be affected in the slightest, since those defenceless targets will be just as defenceless after the change and will, if anything, be even more attractive targets since they'll be much cheaper and easier to attack.

Now, normally, I'd say that a corp that is defenceless should be nuked into oblivion simply because they've made the bad choice of setting themselves up for a lose/lose situation — being defenceless means they're not actually ready to have a corp to begin with. However, this change opens up a new avenue for them: they can congregate in a massive decshielding alliance (hell, I'll offer my services just to profit from/break the system again, like I did with decshedding) and that means that the system is inherently broken right out the gate, in pretty much exactly the same way as it was broken before — the kind of breakage the change was intended to fix.

It also means that the entire merc marketplace that was rolled out to great fanfares instantly becomes meaningless: anyone large enough to be able to afford mercs that can actually make a difference will already be large enough not to be a viable target for attacks (and will most likely be large enough that they don't need mercs). Anyone small enough to need mercs will not be able to afford enough to fight even a single war, and will most certainly not be able to pay enough for the sheer number of decs that they will receive just because they're such an easy target of opportunity.

This is starting to sound like the whole "sov holding alliance" thing that happens in nullsec.

Or the "tech & supercaps" thing people discuss all the time as tech prices get jacked up more and more

Well I guess they don't want to blob.

But really, it's because their NPC corp alt taxes go to pay CONCORD, the best PVPers around.

I don't think Tippia is saying you shouldn't be able to solo. Only that while playing a Sandbox MMO, you're free to try to do what you want, other players who are also free to try what they want and might mess up what you want to do. A real Sandbox isn't 1000s of players each with their own little box of sand to do with as they wish, it's 1000s of players all in one box playing with the same sand together. They can be solo, but they still have to deal with the 1000s of others in the same box.

As to what EVE is, CCP describe it as a Sandbox, not a hybrid. Whether they have delivered a real Sandbox is another question.

In regards to the OP, there was a dev post somewhere saying the Wardec system on test is the old system and they have something new in the works.

Yet goons, test and CFC with CCP have decided that unless you want to be a drone in an alliance of thousands you have no place in eve, even if all you want to do is mine in high-sec.

They have also decided that unless you got 24 hours to spend playing this game you should not be able to enjoy it anymore.

Thanks.

…and as luck would have it, it is valid because EVE is a sandbox game — there is no “hybrid” about it. Nothing in the game forces you to not solo. What makes soloing a bad idea is the fact that, being a sandbox, the other kids will have banded together to take all the sand and will hit you with their spades (and they have an awful lot of spades) if you try to take any of it back.

What makes your play style “invalid” (which is the wrong word — “suboptimal” or “inefficient” would be a better choice) is the fact that the social construct that has grown out of this sandbox has yielded an environment where you will not be able to keep up with the Joneses if you choose to do everything yourself. This does not make the game any less of a sandbox — quite the opposite: it is an effect of the game being a sandbox, not a cause of some kind of non-sandbox:iness.

Humour. You know, you really should vary your routine a bit more, because this kind of completely-detached-from-reality nonsense wears thin very quickly.

Put another way: no, they haven't.