EVE General Discussion

1) Not enough boom.
Examine why people are reluctant to fight. Do not want to show up on a kill board. Do not want to encourage continued/additional war decs. Fear of hot drops. Out of corp alts. Targets logoff in the location they expect a fight, then login and are instantly in the fight.

fix: War dec's suck for industrial corps. They shut down all missioning/mining. Hard to meet my monthly nut of 2.4B ISK for 4 PLEX, when I can't make any ISK for weeks on end.

Because war decs suck so much, we really, really go out of our way to avoid them. This means avoiding showing up on kill board, and not giving any kills to the war decs we do get. Fighting back just causes the war to be extended.

Make war decs suck less, and we're more likely to fight back. How? Make them limited to a system/constellation/region. Make the cost exponentially increase as the number of systems the copr/alliance has active decs in.

Now, war dec is not horrid suck, so we don't do everything we can to avoid them, so we are more likely to fight back.

In addition to that,
* ship mountable cyno jammer to block hot drops
* criminal flag for remote assisting anyone in a war that has a PVP flag to get rid of the out of corp repair alts.
* Timer after login before you can activate modules against another ship, unless they fire on you first.


2) Why group play?
I can make more money mission running or mining with me and my alts, than I can in a larger group. In a group, we have to move between mission or belts more often.

fix: beats me. I don't know what a group could do that I can't do with my 4 accounts.


3) Why leave high sec?
Null sec has been made so safe by its inhabitants, that the null and low sec ores pay basically the same value as high sec.

fix: beats me: Capping the amount of resources in null, would encourage the locals to keep their groups small and would create massive wealth disparity. Make the resources unlimited to lift the cap on the number of people that can participate, and you get the situation we have now where null and low are no more profitable than high.

You could do things like making the higher end version of the ores more drastic, and only appear in lower sec. Veld = current. Concentrated = 50% more than norm and only in low. Dense = 100% more than norm and only in null/wh. I suspect the result of this would be similar to what was happening after dominion where null residents were seeing wallets grow hyper fat in short order. Null being just as safe but twice as productive would crush mineral prices for high sec miners.

But, at least my corp mates would be able to provide an answer to my question, why not just mine in high sec where it is safer and easier?


4) Balancing the desires of those that want to mess with others, with those that want to play the game without being messed with.
Make it too hard to mess with people, then the hunters quit the game. Make it too easy, and the people that don't want to be messed with quit the game.

fix: get those that want to mess with others, to mess with others that want to be mess with others.
PVPers need to focus on PVPing each other instead of thinking of carebears as targets. Improved drops? Tough to do without encouraging people to kill their own alts?

I'd like to see some kind of official kill board with a weighted points that reward killing people that have killed lots of other people, while providing little to no points for killing someone with few if any kills. Repeatedly killing the same player produces fewer points. Top killers become top killers by killing other top killers, not by wasting time war deccing miners or mission runners.

Haha first in with the TLDR

I got a really bad cramp in my left foot while doing my mile swim after my 5 mile run today, could this be a symptom of an underlying problem I don't yet know of?

What?

Pretty sure last time I looked New Eden is full of PVP groups trying to punch each other in the face.

Also, don't assume that non PVP ship kills are exclusively people greifing carebears. It is entirely plausible that organisations are blaping each other's ISK incomes.

Try to see that warfare in EVE is not just PVP like it would be in an FPS game or a PVP arena in some nancy MMO. Most of the fights, the serious ones, the ones that matter... matter.

PLEX is a luxury not a necessity. If you can't take the heat, get out of the fire and pay subscription fees.

CCP won´t let me be a freeloader without me putting in effort BAAAAW I have to share my mission ISK with a scout

How is it freeloading?
Hint: it's not.

I just use the Repair Tool on the Launcher and it has always fixed EVE for me.

Process design and redesign 101. Break down the process, analyze the data, form a theory based on objective evidence, test the design/solution, prove the design/solution, implement the design/solution, measure the results. Rinse, repeat.

Unfortunately the number one thing people point to when something goes wrong is people. Not surprising is that they never point to themselves.

Sure, just as soon as bears stop making themselves targets.