EVE General Discussion

Eh, no. We're talking about it being alive, which the subscriptions amply show. I should know — I made the initial claim. If you want to construct some kind of strawman or go off on some irrelevant tangent, then feel free to do so without me.

Did you read the paragraph you responded to? Again, it contained for statements, a question, and two comparisons. Now, did you read your answer? It did not answer the question posed, but rather declared that your original request was impossible to answer as a way of moving the goal-posts when I answered it.

The first link says exactly what I said: that games are about more things than relaxation. It's not me twisting any words — it's exactly what the article states. The second link doesn't say anything and isn't scientific, and the third link is about training, not relaxation. So yes, I'm right, and you proved it quite nicely. Thank you.

Yes. It's the kind of gameplay on a kind of scale that only EVE can offer, and which catches the fancy of the media and why it's pretty darn unique: the game events create spectacular enough stories to bring to the attention of the general public. Where you get the idea that it impacts real lives from, I can't tell, nor what makes you think that it would only reach the media for that reason. If anything, it's because it doesn't impact real lives, but still make for excellent stories that it becomes interesting — it's like that shocking twist in the TV series everyone is talking about.

…now if you want to talk about people taking a game seriously and letting it impact their lives, look up the kind of media attention the themepark games create, usually revolving around people killing themselves.

I don't. But that's another nice strawman to add to your collection. I already said what the dip was caused by, and guess what? PvE was a banner feature. So I guess this means you'll concede now, as promised.

Yet, when you look at the killboards you only ever see 3 or 4 highsec kills for every 30 or so ships killed and most of them are combat ships.

As for that buff, it also came with the removal of insurance for gank ships so in the end, the cost to gank is the same, only the ships used changed.

Impossible unfortunatlly. The era of M0o, 8 heatsink geddons and beehive domi is now reserved to memories.

I usually just ignore tippia's posts.

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no, he isn't. Try to think rationally instead of jumping to extreme conclusions. So many stupid arguments like this coming from the crybabies.

Tippia is the only one to present any evidence so far...




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EDIT: no problem my good man - Baltec1

I managed to read your little rant before the ISD snipped it. I have to say, hypocrisy at it's finest there, you claim Tippia gives closed minded arguments yet it's just what you do, in fact you don't provide any argument, you just rant like a spoilt child. Every post of yours that I've seen has been the same rambling crap.

Gonna have to say yes.

But a growing game is heathier than a shrinking one. Which means EVE is doing better than just about any of it rivals.

Clearly you have never played rugby before.

As PvP games player (from MUDs to Darkfall) I kinda agree with you.
Only difference is that EvE shines on the "macro" PvP (while sucking very hard at fighting skills), most of the other games don't cater to long term strategy and focus on fighting skills.