EVE General Discussion

He is, but he doesn't live in Australia.

So Apostle was right, all the good actors live in the US :P

so ... bring back the AOE DD?

so much this. if planetary interaction allows for serious train robbery opportunities...then why doesn't the massive isk sundae that is technetium have an opportunity for interception and disruption outside of a 48hr pos bash? if you're going to make a player run customs office for planets, extend it to moon mining as well in some interceptable way that requires some player interaction.

The extreme death penalty prevents me from enjoying anything outside high sec.

I'm not about chasing money, or ruling the galaxy, or being a drama queen in the midst of some in-game scandal.

I am an adventure seeker, but not a masochist.

I enjoy pvp, but not spending a week building up isk to buy, or mining ore to build (or even building), ships and equipment.

Most people won't say it due to the sociopaths who will berate them for doing so...but I think a lot of people feel the same way I do.

In fact, most of the problems people state in this thread could be fixed simply by making ships and equipment persistent in the game. This would not place any limitations on pvp, although the sociopaths who enjoy the "tears" will try to claim that it will (along with berating me for posting this).

There are sixteen personality typologies in the real world. It is a shame that this game only focuses on the sociopath personality type...since it isn't even one of the sixteen, but a mental disorder.

Id like to be part of a large , successful, close knit alliance, to take part in battles that mean something. To many requirements ass kissing and knowing the right people for me to have the chance though.

I want to be able to capture pods and keep players in my Player Owned Slave Pen (POSP).

And I want to dress them in the new range of cheeky slave outfits available at the Noble Exchange, and watch them perform for me in the new Slave Quarters (SQ).

You can of course attempt to rescue your clone by attacking my POSP!

Skilling up my main to suicide gank in a blaster Brutix, never done it before and no doubt my first try will end in fail and ruin. I'll probably forget to over heat or something. Should be fun though.

I realize that ships and equipment being persistent is a bit much. There are too many parts of the game that would be adversely affected by it. That doesn't mean the cost of dieing has to be so harsh though. While some may have 100's of friends and be part of some big alliance or corporation that enables them to have access to an isk tree, those of us who don't, for whatever reason (anti-herd mentality), have a tougher go at it. Even something limited like FW could fulfill this role for people like me. After all, you are fighting a war for the NPC faction. The least they can do is supply ships and equipment to fight their war for them. Yeah I know, I hear it all the time; "maybe this game isn't for you". I happen to be one of the old Earth & Beyond refugees that came to eve after they made a deal with Sony to kill E&B preceding the Eve launch...and I'm still pissed about it. There isn't another game that fills the gap in mmo's (too limited of a genre?).

As for your stating that the risk factor is why you pvp, I can understand the exhilaration and having your blood pressure rise at the risk of getting killed. Unfortunately, I hear this same explanation over and over and the truth is I find it to be disingenuous at best. This phenomenon does not come from the risk involved when you are talking about a game. It comes from "becoming your avatar"...the immersion factor if you will. And even then, once you've been through it a few times that dies out, both in games and real life. I've experienced it in both. Of course, I acknowledge that perspective is important and others are not as jaded as I am.

Actually, whenever I see someone using that as their reasoning I always assume the reverse part of that argument...which is that you experience that thrill by knowingly causing others the pain that comes from the huge death penalty; which is the behavior of a sociopath by definition. There is too much sociopathic behavior that goes on in this game. The game mechanics don't just enable that behavior, it promotes it through game mechanics that center around the harsh death penalty.

So in a nutshell, that's where all my issues come from with this game. It is the one thing the stops everyone who would otherwise actively pursue low/null sec activities, but are stuck in high sec instead. You want to increase subs and save Eve/CCP? This is how you do it IMHO.

I want to drop bombs on mining ops in hi-sec.