EVE General Discussion

I have been playing EVE for almost 8 years. I have lost everything I had twice, I am talking down to one ship and less than 100mil here. Once evacuating from 0.0 and again when a wormhole corp I was a member of imploded.

I am reminded of the fanfest presentation about wardec mechanics, the dev present said quite sincerely when explaining the changes that "EVE is hard".

EVE is hard. But not because of the game mechanics, or the design or anything the devs planned when creating this game. EVE is hard because the players make it hard, they always have and they always will.

When pilots join together they can tame incursions, sleepers, easily beat the game for all the isk they can get, but they also can wreak havoc on all of us.

I'm not a friend of Goons, tho I have never fallen foul directly from their actions. I don't agree with their play style, but I would never call for them to be removed or stopped by CCP. I respect that they have found a way to use the game to their advantage, and the only way to "stop" them is to fight.

We've seen the many threads trying to rally people to take them on, they have a point the only way to try and stop them is to fight back. That's why EVE is hard.

When I was much younger a CEO of a high sec corp, we were deced by a 3 man group of pirates who thought we were a push over, before I would have said dock up guys, log off, don't give them the satisfaction. However this time I thought screw it we outnumber them we have heavy hitters in corp and nooblets to tackle, I adopted the goon doctrine for a change.

That evening we sat outside a space station having chased the buggers there, taking them totally by surprise. They congratulated us from inside the station on our courage and how well we had surprised them, a day or so later the war was retracted and we all felt great, and all the greater because it wasn't easy, because EVE is hard.

So I say to all those who feel helpless struggling to keep their head above the complexity of the sandbox, if you really want to feel what this game is like on hard mode, stand up for yourselves make friends and new allies band together and fight. Actually play this game in it's full potential, I won't lie it's likely you will lose.

Afterall, EVE is hard.

Your going to have many failures in EVE. A few of them may make you want to quit the game altogether. Those that persevere wind up being among the most successful in this game.

I would not say "keep liquid isk" as much as I would say "make sure your belongings are safe", and "have an escape plan at all times".

Its nice to have 50 ships in one place; you would just be best off if most of them are small, and you have a carrier, however.

Well said Benilopax. Well said.

TL;DR: Stop sucking!!!

Somewhere I like to think that somebody somewhere is getting a blow job while reading the forums out loud and now hate you.

Totally agree with you man, well said.

Thanks very much everyone, would you believe I wrote that while soaking in a bath?

Seems a few people watching the trailer on IGN want to come try EVE out.

I think it's very important to stress how hard EVE is and to challenge new players to try and beat us.

Difficulty in EVE has a direct inverse relationship with how attached you are to your stuff.

See: tech alliances with awesome ship reimbursements, makes eve easy.

Made it almost a page without some NPC Corp alt poser.

Kudos to OP for a good post. Something like this should be the first thing Aura says to you ingame.