EVE General Discussion

Eh? Wtf are you two blathering about?

What difference does your NPC corp make?

What do you mean by "unwilling to move" and "return to them"? Surely players in NPC corps can go where the hell they like?

Or am I missing something here?

Personally I think the article is a nice mix of valid arguments and tinfoil hattery. Let's hope CCP don't make EVE a fluffy theme park.

Opened the page, saw who the author was, realized I already read it, closed the page.

Thank you for your extremely enlightened opinion. Some day I wish do be as intelligent as you. You are the reason newer players leave eve. Eve is linear in such a way as to encourage progression. Normally you start in high sec, move to low sec, go to WH or null sec. Instead of belittling the buffing of high sec, maybe you "Vets" should make the other areas of eve more inviting.

While I will say I admire what the Goons and other groups have done in terms of 'pulling things off' in EVE, I have a real hard time taking this article seriously. Sure, I agree that there is a change happening to make high-sec safer, but why is it happening? Because a very organized groups of players took a game mechanic and pushed it as far and as hard as possible to the point that it was potentially becoming ruinous to the game itself.

Yes, there was a good business model there, with profit to be had by many. They were potentially 'winning' the game with what they were doing. But it went on for so long that something needed to be done and it was. Reading this article leaves me with only two thoughts:
1. It sounds like a whine thread for suicide gankers. The underlying issue that ganks fuel profits for ship builders appears to be glossed over.
2. The actions that the author and his friends claimed to have engaged in helped feed the very 'problem' that he is whining about.

There is an almost endless string of complaints, but no offered solution. With the understanding that CCP is a company that needs to make money, a point that has been beaten to death in the article, there doesn't appear to be a solution offered by the author to make things better. With so much anger towards the current course, what does the author WANT?

Newbees go out to nullsec on their first day & there is ways for even a new player to get through a gate camp.

Well first off despite being bitter, we still care about the game. Secondly, plenty of us live in highsec.

Ah, GD, ever the bastion of critical thought.

"More than three sentences in sequence, cannot compute."
"Author is _____, no need to read, already know _____'s arguments are invalid."
"Posted on _____ website, no need to read, _____'s content is garbage." *

While I disagree with Mr. 315's conclusions in Part 2, it does raise questions about CCP's long-term strategy. As it is in New Eden, our real-world corporations must adapt as circumstances arise. I don't think they should risk shedding thousands of subs to the likes of WoT just to poop up the sandbox that makes the game legendary... but as it now stands, mining is safer; ganking is still possible.

( * statement is actually true of all Gawker websites)

How on earth did you manage to write that much about so little?

If making HI-sec safer means that there are far more subscription than any EvE player that doesn't want that is stupid.

This is the trouble with conspiracy theories........ they're rarely anything other than one sided.

Just look at all the complaints from Hi-sec players about drops in their earning potentials. Sure, they can still earn a lot, but that is generally reserved for the highly knowledgeable and for players that know how to 'manipulate' the game to earn well.

For me....... if Hi-sec gets safer and the potential earnings drop, then this is the ideal situation. Get more subscriptions, get them to understand that after 3 months they really have to move out of hi-sec to make any ISK and suddenly...... all those Low/Null regions that I pass through a lot that are empty will get fuller.

I appreciate that for you it's probably a case of 'principals' and for others it's a case of ISK, but EvE needs to grow......... and if it isn't growing it's dying................ If you or any of the other conspirators out there can come up with a better way to grow the subscriptions then lets hear it!

It's easy to control hi-sec population............. you control the ISK sources...........

I don't wish this to appear as an attack on you, but JESUS.... there is always someone moaning about something in this game (yes I see the irony here).

Regards

Barrak

As long as Null sec is not changed and is always the wild west, who gives a rats behind what the rules are in highsec? If you want PvP, stop hanging around the kiddie pool looking for easy kills to pad your killboard in highsec and man up and go to null or low sec.