EVE General Discussion

OK, you have just fitted up your really cool PVP ship, and are heading out to look for a little one on one pvp. You set your sites on some prey, and you attack something you should clearly destroy. But suddenly your in a pod, wondering WTF. For that fight, the person that should have lost, wins on a fluke, a luck of the draw so to speak, a lucky shot, or whatever.

What I'm suggesting is Eve needs a little more uncertainty in this area.

For those of you that have ever played the board game Risk know, you can have the best laid plan, and still get bad dice. I think our land of Eve could do with just a little of that. Not a lot, but a little uncertainty can go a really long way in making things much more interesting.

I take it this fluke was some guy that put lasers on a hyperion or something?

Nothing more than to add a little uncertainty. I'm not suggesting this happens to a poorly fit ship. I'm suggesting ti happens to perfectly fit ships. Kind of a good luck bad luck situation.

i disagree with the post.
EVE is about skill and tactics. The idea of adding a "random luck" is not something i would support.

Good luck: the drake you were killing was faction fit.
Bad luck: the drake you were killing was bait.

Eve has luck in it, just not the crappy "YOU CRITTED HIM FOR OVER 9000 DAMAGE!", kind of luck.

I'd prefer to rely on skill than luck.

So I was in 0.0 and this guy was out hunting in a cane, looking for easy kills I presume.

In the end he got caught on a gate by a bunch of Intercepters.

Nothing is guaranteed in EVE and you may be the hunter now but soon you will be the prey.

Good thing Eve is a game, eh?

Erm...chance or "crit hits" are not really a common thing in Eve nor should they be. Everything boils down to the mechanics such as speed, transversal/radial/angular velocity, tracking speeds, signature radius, etc. This is why sometimes smaller faster ships can totally wtfpwn much larger and technically more powerful ships. Skill (both trained and tactical) plays a very large part of it, sometimes even moreso than the raw tanking/dps ability of your ship.

Eve should not have a random thing where you suddenly get a critical hit that instakills everything. That would just be ridongculous.

there is no need to script luck into eve.


because while we play eve, we're still in the real world.


Computers hardware can glitch, as can the internet connection. Players can be distracted at crucial moments. Etc.


So, there's your luck and chance, it's conveniently hardcoded into reality, and even when you play eve, that still happens within the bounds of reality.