EVE General Discussion

sure, but that's because I'm the only one who looked at the facts

you may want to consider employing that tactic in your intel gathering job

the anti-wardec fleet was lead by dbrb and was a drakefleet and murderized everything, the only wardec fleet that was a pain in the ass was an AAA fleet who showed up in good fits and was organized and could do something besides die horribly (until they got caught on the wrong side of the gate, and then vily murderized a few freighters since they couldn't jump into the fleet)

A full nullsec combat fleet will roll any number of random hisec players.

Again demonstrating you have no clue how mass combat works in Eve, yet for some reason opining on it.

You seriously need to walk away from the comp right now. This is getting ridiculous.

if you want to actually hurt null logistics, ban npc corps
but when you suggest banning npc corps highsec people get mad

I don't know where they got the idea that wardecs did anything, if they did, 0.0 alliances would probably manufacture things in nullsec space instead of just run endless jump freighters to and from highsec trade hubs

of the two of us you are the one who look more like a zombie. "brainsss...."

There should be a minimum age for playing this game, jesus christ.

No more Jade Constantine tinfoil hat responses?

Yeah, 16, that's when I started.

I am now 22 and still playing Eve.

... which is pretty much exactly what I said. I'm glad we agree.

These changes are a good first step, but there still needs to be iteration. As has been already pointed out there will be more tools inbound for tracking the record of and hiring of merc corps. These are necessary, as well as "victory conditions" as I (and then subsequently you) have already pointed out... but you have to start somewhere.

Empowering the "privateers" of the EVE universe is not it... although the foolish will undoubtedly hire free rubish to fight for them.

A culture needs to develop in the merc market where "you get what you pay for", but that isn't going to happen overnight. The groundwork needs to be laid first and be in effect for a while to become established.

Personally I wish they would have held off just a bit longer to get the other necessary bits in place first (victory conditions, merc dashboard/tracking), but I understand the desire to take it one step at a time.

However, there is little doubt that leaving things as they were was self defeating... it did nothing to encourage wise decisions on who to ally, quite the opposite actually. So these revisions are necessary.

I understand that it steals a bit of your thunder, your move was actually very well executed under the original set of revisions (it was the smartest thing you could have done, all things considered). But it also served to very clearly point out to CCP that the EVE player base was indeed smart enough to take advantage and twist the system to suit their own needs, and that it would be necessary to take at least some of the additional steps they had already been considering.