EVE General Discussion

Are you talking about the changes that happened during the Crucible expansion, that increased the cost of Suicide Ganking? You're conveniently forgetting the insurance nerf that was included with that "buff."

I think we are dealing with the CCP concession that bots are people too y'know.

A sub is a sub and our sweet precious candy is low risk, high ISK activities.

If the toys needed are also "exploitable" as in you don't have to be playing the game to be "safe" I guess they see that as OK as long as no-one gets hurt badly - until it becomes a mind numbing bore, where all emergent gaming is squashed until the game struggles to renew as its regarded as that crap (see subs are subs).

EVE is resembling the "Red Dwarf" game "Better Than Life" complete with the corrosive, self destructive outcome.

Except that's not all that's happening. Significant and pernicious mechanical changes are coming with the UI changes.

This is a bad question because noone in this thread said 'highsec was awful', but I'll answer it anyway.
Lack of industrial capacity in nullsec and w-space. Small scale miners and industrialists are pointless liabilities in an environment where locally produced goods cannot possibly hope to meet demand (single highsec systems have more manufacturing capacity then entire 0.0 regions). It's more effective to put them in an area where they can't kill each other and instead have them endlessly undercut each other due to an anemic and impotent conflict resolution system.

I have long argued that the way to go is to make null lo-sec more attractive to players.

The proposed 'Stakeholder' idea may well be a step in the right direction.

Constant whinging about how safe hi-sec is not going to achieve this.

Dear Pipa Porto, I have never used the comparison between ganking a Domininx and ganking a Destroyer before.

Just so you know.

Kind regards, Josef.

I think it's a more complicated answer then merely 'buff nullsec'. Quite frankly, on things like manufacturing, highsec has it so damn good (able to handle high, null, low and wh manufacturing needs with room to spare for free) that inserting a nullsec industry system capable of making that look like crap would introduce its own problems. Personally, I'd like to see it so that while highsec is always capable of meeting its own industrial needs, other regions would be inclined to set up industrial bases on their own turf because highsec simply would no longer be capable of producing everything.

Likewise, the big powerblocs' ability to completely outsource their war machine to highsec where their most valuable production goods and supply lines are protected by CONCORD can only really be broken by removing the most egregious anti-risk aspects of highsec (wardec evasion, NPC corps). These, combined with buffing nullsec so that it'd be able to handle the increased industrial workload, would be a good compromise that would culminate in player-run alliances being able to finally establish developed economies (instead of the resource extraction-centered game we've played for the past 9 years) that would open the doors to true capitalistic, non-feudal systems.

That's not an argument, that's an example (and a bad one at that). Your tired old straw man was:



Reading Comprehension is a virtue.

Just so you know.

Kind Regards, etc,

There is plenty of PVP in null and lowsec, why do you all are so eager to kill players in hisec ? Is it because you are affraid of fighting someone who is prepared and expects fight ? I'm tired of you pathetic cries, "PVPers".

Reading comphrehension is a skill not a virtue.

Dear me, I am becoming petty minded as well.

Sorry.