EVE General Discussion

I think this is probably the first topic I have created in over 3 years on Eve Forums, but after reading the linked article I came to the conclusion that every single Eve player needs to read it. I would be very curious to hear the opinions on it.

http://themittani.com/features/road-nerfdom-highsecs-carebear-future

It's happening. The temperature is rising, slowly but surely. We cannot feel the change because we are acclimated. A nerf here, a nerf there, buff here, buff there.

Eve is a helluva lot safer than it used to be. This is not good.

Saw the name - james 315.

Stopped right there.

It is probably best for james if folk do not encourage his really strange obsession with miners.

His article will be about miners and how they are destroying Eve. He should change his name to James One-Note.

The self obsessed ego (mittens) and the miner obsessed ego.

I have to agree with you there, I did find that their seemed to be some sort of deep rooted hatred of miners in the tone, but despite it I found his arguments pretty compelling as a whole.

I suppose the outlining question is, would it be bad for Eve if High Sec was perfectly safe and Eve had a larger population as a trade off?

The author is James_315.
I don't need to read it to know what it says. I think most who frequent GD could say the same.

I find the complacency and apathy in this thread disturbing.

Well I suppose it depends on how you see it and how a larger population would mix into the game. I would presume that if you add say 300,000 more players to Eve today that a certain percentage of them will venture beyond high sec, hence it would likely result in having more people floating around in low, null and wormhole.

I can't really find anything negative about that as a whole. I mean to me, the idea of shooting someone in High Sec seems .... I don't know, pointless at least from the perspective of a Eve player that is the pursuit of advancement, wealth, politics and pretty much anything but the general tear induction that is suicide ganking. I have never shot at someone in high sec except during wars and I have been playing this game for about 7 years and I don't feel like I have missed out on some intracle part of the game or something...

For me, fighting is something that results from my pursuits beyond the borders of High Sec when me and my crew are running our various ops in Null or Wormhole and the occasional low sec ops, we fight and bleed... High Sec is kind of a place we return to, to gear up and get ready for the next excursion be it a short term daily op or a long term home out in space somewhere.

I guess my point is that if you eliminated suicide ganking, as a 7 year veteran that has tried most everything that there is to do in Eve from Sov Warfare, to mining, from can flipping to scamming (suicide ganking aside) I don't see how making high sec safer would have any impact on me at all.

I do find the article compelling because I understand that Eve is played in a variety of ways beyond what I do and have done in the past, but I question the wisdom of maintain a lower population and not reaching a larger audience with Eve is a good trade off just to keep something relatively insignificant like suicide ganking?

Holy crap that was a well made article of nutter and whack job.

I really loved "Having demonstrated that the exhumer change was simply a nerf to aggression dressed up as a "rebalance", a number of important questions remain."

Yeah because it made so much sense to have a deep space non-combat ship with a hull made from the same thing as this set of articles, Tin Foil.

Is there an award for nut job of the year? Normally James 315 trolls a lot, I suppose this could be one really long arse troll. I was waiting for his Final Solution as this really came over as a manifesto.

Another conspiracy theory, makes the chemtrail conspiracy even more believable

A pretty one sided article with little or no substance, more like a epic whine about people are not playing EvE my why and i demand thatCCP nerf them

but,...but...how about this one then?
http://themittani.com/news/breaking-unsupported-ncdot-dread-fleet-killed