EVE General Discussion

Yes because I chose to support Malcanis as I believe his ideas are best for the game as a whole. It is one of the things I don't like in a lot of the candidates, they are "vote for me and I will fix hi sec" or "I will fix Wormhole space"

This game needs people on the CSM who are concerned about all of the game not just the interests of the few.

Oh and Malcanis is not a block candidate, but just so you know Myanna is the go on swarm block candidate but having said that Myanna is actually the best goon candidate I have seen so far.

Only 1 type of outpost can hit 100%(w/skills ofc) after upgrades. Outside of that you would have to use POS refining(which takes 25%) or use the other station refineries which take a large chunk.

I support Psychotic Monk for one reason, and one reason only: of all the CSM candidates, he is the only one advocating for emergent, aka player-generated content. Which in my opinion, is something those of you in null sec should be doing...creating your own content instead of asking for handouts.

As a new player, the vast majority of what I see emanating from null is elitism. Most of the null bear advocates seem to think they're above everyone else as if null is some kind of exclusive neighborhood, and the rest of us are just high sec peeons...and I don't even live in high sec.

The 5 office slots and max of 9 manufacturing slots on a refining outpost should be enough for you all.

Edit: Opps max of 13 office slots on a matari outpost.

yeah giving people destructible industry services that were actually worth using probably wouldn't help generate any content. you're right.

In the past, before NC and stuff, there were PvP corps in null sec. I was in an awesome pure PvP corp where I spent my best time of all EvE till one day my RL obligations forced me to stop everything that demanded commitment. That corp close to my last days joined BoB. A fun thing, since half of my characters were in a GS blued alliance instead.

The number of known titans was reported on a specific thread (they were below 150), we'd fight with battleships and carriers, some dreads. The bigger guns were rare.

POSes were the sov thing to grind.


It was quicker to become a null sec "reality", it was just a *better game*. Dominion is the worst expansion that EvE could ever get. Regardless whether it's because it was delivered unfinished (how many expansions did anyway?) or just craptastic, Dominion tainted ripple effects have harmed EvE more than every other bad made expansion put together.

Back to my talk: EvE was a better game because ANY corp could easily stage in hi sec, then low sec / FW then go NPC null sec or directly go take sov.
It was just smoother and easier, the entry barrier well lower, everyone could grind 10 or so carriers and then dare to be bold and go carve a morsel of sovereignty.

The other opponents did not have 2k warm bodies summoned at a whistle, min maxed "doctrines" were less extreme.

End result: the cake was the same but the participants had an easier time eating it.

R64? My balls. We conquered 3 moons before I quit. We started from zero moons, weekly corp ops to farm ISK / minerals.
4-8 hours a week ops plus some particularly generous corp players = fully T2 fitted ship replacement program for everybody and fitted capital ships replacement program.

Sadly industry had no place in there, nor heavy logistics were easy. I recall my weekly multi-boxed freighter run through Hek=>Taff (7 jumps in low sec) with 30-50 escort ships (now people cry for lack of content, they just play with bicycle wheels) and later the carrier jumps (JFs were rare, really).
So as industrialist guy I had to do most logistics in hi or low sec, large reprocessable modules acquisition and delivery and so on. And mining ops in low or null sec. where roids are moons.
I did some small PvP and everyone were so happy with the whole thing.

There was no crying on the forums, only alliances happily blasting each other and making to the international media news all the time when the fights were glorious.

I recall EvE news having up to 3 null sec large fights reported at a time, at the time they were "XYZ attacked JNNN with *two* supercarriers and 1 titan" => to the 3rd party website news.

Then the old players guard started quitting, I bet Dominion played an huge part on that as I distinctly recall most of my corp mates including me detesting blob (> 50 (fifty!) ) ships fights with a passion.
Old alliances slowly faded, being replaced by another kind of players, more adapted to the "new and improved" mechanics. The golden days, for what regards my personal feelings, were officially over.

The coup-de-grace came with the hideous "GREED IS GOOD" campaign.
Tons of remaining old guard quit. I quit with them. Many because of the CCP attitude, many because of the "golden ammo" attempts, many because of realizing how decayed CCP had become to release a piece of scandal: "The Closed Door".

I joined the original most large protest threadnought posters at the first pages and in block we delivered the heaviest protest - including Jita monument - ever had in a MMO.
I was expecially annoyed by CCP wanting me to shell $99 for the honor of advertising them on my website and writing free software for them. I, spending $350 a year just in hosting fees, would have also to pay them for the honor of working for them? FK OFF. Yes I am still annoyed even now that they reversed that foolishness.

Thus you Flakeys might recall me ranting on MD a lot back at the time and then leaving.


The new null sec protagonists joined a new mechanic almost requiring huge blobbing for getting anything done.
Plus they were different people.

Not pure PvPers any more, going there for the very sake of claiming a "tabard" and the glory of a space castle and uncaring about what was needed to achieve that. Having to perma farm hi sec L4 missions and producing only in hi sec was a secondary thing.
The new players wanted to really live in there. Being many, they had a number of "civilians", that is people less than interested in pure PvP and similar and more interested in "cultivating the farms".
The pre-Dominion industry facilities suddenly fell short: before Dominion the only null sec industry done was to build fewer ships for smaller entities and it was a soft cap to supercaps spamming.
All of this broke and...

we are at today.

Yeah, highsec as good as null, now with added CONCORD and NPC Corp combo.

Many of the issues regarding null industry could be eliminated with updating POSs. Really that should be more of a priority then fixing Dominion at this point. Since it could allow corps/alliances in npc null/WH to build up in preparation for sov null. Also I feel POSs are in worse shape then Sov is.

Let's ask some TEST ratters how those techmoons and blue donut are working out for them.

Back in my day we had to pvp uphill in the snow both ways! And we liked it!