EVE General Discussion

Irony? No. History? Yes.

After Ghengis Khan conquered China, the Mongols[1] became soft as they were absorbed by Chinese culture, because, let's face it, no matter how comfortable your yurt is, nor how yummy your milk+mare's blood is, it's just not the same as a real bed, real food, women who bathe, clean clothes, et. al.

The same is happening in null.


[1] 'l33t PvP'ers who did their PvP'ing in the real world and not from their mother's basement against imaginary foes,

Eh, we have plenty of targets as is. Nullsec has more ship kills then the rest of New Eden combined.

So much for the "bored with noone to shoot so they're messing with highsec" theory advanced by certain 'people'.

The actual answer is more rooted in the specific dynamics of conflict between null entities and how the total lack of native industry effects that, as well as the principle of increasing reward with increasing risk while retaining game balance. Wardec immunity and NPC corps also negatively effect highsec gameplay and players of course, all my suggestions certainly don't ignore highsec players as legitimate players in a game.

Here I am to once more say that removing the dependency on gates and letting ships dial in system to system warps would be 50 percent of what the game needs. The renters in their gank pipelines is what keeps nullsec and the ISK fountains safe. Let people get past that, even without needs for conquest, and the gate camp (crap PVP for both sides of this activity) is replaced with the combat patrol.


The other half, is to make resources finite throughout all of the system types: mining more means less resources. You want to bot those belts and build cap ships galore? The belts run out. Just about every conflict in human history comes out of limited resources, but this game is proof that the only thing that would "end all wars" is unlimited resources (an impossibility). If there was a social experiment going on to find out what would happen if food, energy, etc, could be unlimited, this game is proof of what would happen.

And look how blued up they all are, to each other.

Make resources finite, make it possible to suck a moon dry, mine all of the roids out of a system, and completely strip-mine a planet, and you will see a lot of fighting. Give ships the ability to traverse without gates and WITHOUT the pilot needing to be in a nullsec alliance, and you will see high sec (after high sec is picked clean) coming to nullsec for more resources.


And no, it won't kill the economy when ships can be recycled better, like being able to build 2000 Rifters from the dead hulk of a cap ship for example - so after people are done fighting over dwindling resources, they will fight over salvage of the machines destroyed in the fighting over the resources too.

A good time will be had by all.

But... all of this depends on the players, who, having been brought to the game by the "he who has the most ISK wins" advertisements, will cry and gnash their teeth over anything that is not about racking up a number in a wallet, or some stats on a killboard, as if those are THE game.


I am ready to adapt, because this is a game after all.

So when are we gonna talk about not giving nullsec anything new or cool because ~isk faucets~.

wretched npc alts never post anything of value

Please elect Sariah Kion, NPC forum alt, for CSM.

Her/His/Its ideas are fresh and well thought out and in now way smack of hatred towards any alliance/powerblock in the game.

Her/His/Its online community college certificate in Politics more than quilifies her/him/it to make the best choices for all sec dwellers, whether they be High, Low, Null or WH, and gives him/her/it more insight into the way the game needs to be changed than anyone who currently plays the game, or is in an actual player owned corporation.

For all these reasons and more, I, Unsuccessful at Everything, fully endorse Sariah Kion, NPC forum alt, for CSM.

This has already been discussed and exposed to the light of day. Two sides of the same coin, they've been exposed for their hypocrisy, and nobody but forum warriors give a crap. Search function works (sometimes): try it.

it's not threatening to me because you're hilariously clueless about nullsec, hisec, and eve as a whole

i'm sure you're one of those who thinks that everyone in 0.0 are blue to each other and everyone has 5 tech moons per individual

you must also believe that holding a moon gets you a periodic injection of isk from NPCs

i post wherever you find an npc alt rattling its cage trying to make noise to join in laughing at it