EVE General Discussion

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Interestingly, Eve is developped by people who held a chess boxing match during the 2011 fanfest. I guess metagaming is a part of the game.

Highsec and nullsec.

Nice trollshot up the middle, look at him go!...

Thats an interesting point of view - so you think it'd be better to split between a pvp and pve server than it would be to have a split between geographically-diverse servers that both continue as effectively pvp servers?

Personally I think any kind of PVE server thing would be the death of Eve everywhere. Whereas I think you could probably get away with geographical sharding with identical rulesets if you needed to go that way.

Granted its a huge step and not needed currently - but its probably trending in that direction due to the apparent differences in game design aspirations between geographically-disparate groups.

Personally I can't help but be a little intrigued as to what the character of a Euro/russian server for Eve online would be.
I have to admit I really like the atmosphere on euro world of tanks :)
(and remember usually with server splits individuals can still choose which region's they want to play on, many North American's play on the euro servers in tanks because thats where their clan mates are).

Still its bluesky thinking in a funny thread, whats wrong with pondering some bizzare options on a tuesday morning eh.

The carebears need the griefers and PvPers.

Without griefers and PvPers there would be no market for the stuff produced by the carebears.

You just made me think of The Game, and now I've lost it.

Do this and several things will happen:

-The "EVE-lite" will die quickly because there isn't really anything to spend the money people make.

-"EVE-Hardcore" will die quickly because there's nowhere to shop, no one to build anything, and no where to go when some bigger group (inevitably) flexes it's mi8litary might and punts you from your space.

-"Carebears" will simply invade "EVE-Hardcore" in some kind of way just to then claim to CCP that "hey, you know what will get you lots more subs? HIGH SEC/SAFE ZONES and MOAR PVE content!!!" (because, other than risk-aversion, that's what carebears do, try to change situations to suit them rather than adpating to suit the situation"

-Since no one will end up playing , CCP will explode and it will all be moot, NO EVE for anyone.

EVE is supposed to be harsh, but you knw what else is harsh? Real life business lol. CCP had to make some concessions (like high sec and other "player coddling" features") because, lets face it, there aren't enough hard core space ship pvp players on earth to keep something like the original eve vision financially viable. Fact is, most mmo gamers are themepark/hold my hand/casual-solo players, and for eve to survive ccp had to get some of them.

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I know RL politics are taboo here, but I'll make the analogy anyway. It's just like rightwing/conservative people vs left wing liberal/progressive/socialist people. they HATE each other, each side wishes the other side would fall the hell off the face of the freaking earth. But, (and they won't admit it, some don't even realize it) they need each other, for balance sake. An all rightwing world would suck just a much as an all elft wiing world, it's meeting in the middle that makes things work.

I have forever said on these boards, I understand this game needs all types and I don't care how you play as long as you understand that eve is NOT really meant to be a solo-casual-hold your hand game. You can choose to play that way, but you MUST understand that by doing so, you make yourself a second class EVE citizen. The conflict (for me) comes when people refuse to accept the consequence of their "playstyle" but rather try to get ccp to change the nature of the game.

Like this is ever gonna happen.... Goof Ball...