Warfare & Tactics

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Ships destroyed by concord do not payout insurance. This was changed some time ago, around the time when the T3 battlecruisers were added.

sucide ganking was nerfed as the battleships became to expensive to use without getting insurance for them. This nerf was softened with the addition of T3 battlecruisers that could do battleship damage at a fraction of the cost.

EVE is a hostile place. There is crime in new eden just as there is in the real world. CONCORD are the police. when someone unjustly kills a miner in high sec the police(CONCORD)respond. But just as in the real world this response takes time. The further you are from the police station the longer the response takes. hense the slower response as security level drops.

Much like a criminal in the real world can shoot you and take your wallet. The police will respond. the criminal will usually get caught, But they usually will get away with the loot, i.e. your wallet. Some criminals are smart and make a living off crime.

In New Eden criminals are punished. Police respond to criminal acts, repeat offenders suffer from reduced security status which will eventually lock them out of high sec.

Just like in the real world there are criminals in New Eden that make their living off criminal activities, and just like the real world criminals can get away with their crimes by hiding in area's the police will not pursue them. A criminal in the U.S.A. flee's to Mexico, while a criminal in New Eden flee's to low sec. It would be cool to see a system in EVE that actually punishes criminals who are actually caught. Like criminals going to prison in the real world.

Perhaps when a criminal gets -10.0 security standings CONCORD will try to POD them, and if successful the character would be unavailable for play for a designated jail time(5-10 days) depending on their degree of criminal activity. Perhaps even paying an optional fine to avoid jail time or character lock out, (just that specific character, not the account). Have criminal activities actually have a chance of long lasting punishment.

To give something to the players who choose to play as criminals perhaps add a criminal record to the character sheets. A way to show how bad you are beyond a -10.0 sec status. Each time they do time or pay a fine it will show as time served or fines paid for crimes against the state. If they get away from CONCORD they can live to fight another day, but if they get caught the hammer comes down. Dedicated criminals will eventually have a rap sheet displaying their convictions like a trophy rather than just a -10.0 sec status.

This would add an element of risk to criminal actives. Make that -10.0 security standing actually give the criminal character something to fear. Serving jail time or paying the fine would reset that character to -4.0 security. So they can start their crime spree over again without a huge sec status grind or rolling a new character. After serving their punishment they are now no longer hunted and are free citizens. Until their sec status drops again. Each time they are caught could result in a longer jail sentence (days the character is locked from play) Such content could increase the thrill of playing a criminal character, you now have something to risk/fear. Such content is really not needed in a video game. But it could be cool and add a lot of depth if done right. Such a change would be the first of its type in an MMO,

Best mining party ever.

Diz is the single game in wich the Chicken is allowed to play the Lion. Well. Maybe not the Lion. But for shure, the Hyena. Just a combination of a smart salesman and a lot of pervers ppl, that's EvE. But do we like it? For shure, yeah, we do. And if you dont rly understand that motivations are rarely important, in this game, and actions or consequences of actions are the single wich count...rly, you should not play it. Stop alt-tabbing, botting, pay attention, and no unexpected harm will be done to you. But sometimes people should expect harm. Still they don't. Because "this won't happen exactly to them". Bad luck is a pervers God, isn't it?

Is eve supposed to be a brutally competitive pvp game with complex economics and industrial elements in it?

Or is eve supposed a game that caters to all sorts of players who want to play at all sorts of difficulty levels?

If we take the cater-to-everyone approach, the brutally competitive pvp aspect makes no sense anymore. We all build up our resources in near-absolute safety, and then go shoot each other for sport. Suicide ganking crusades and griefing campaigns are the players' response to keep all areas of he game competitive.

Depending on what you take the economy of eve to be (ISK or... Fun... or Tears) he is right. If the economy is ISK then you could argue for the Broken Window - Kid (here after will be called [Pirate]) breaks window (here after will be called [Venture]), the owner of the window (here after will be called [Bear]) has to buy a new [Venture], and this stimulates the economy...

Unfortunately it is a fallacy as the economy is down one [Venture]. The economy would have been 'better' stimulated by the [Bear] getting a chance to save his isks/tears and buy his long dreamed of new suit (here after will be called [Hulk]). In that scenario, the world of isk would have had a 'higher' standard of 'living' because it would have still had a functional [Venture] and a new shiny [Hulk].

But since it's 1 - interenest space ships, and 2 - many of those ships are fueled by [Bear] tears, shooting the Venture does increase the standard of living, for some of the citizens of new eden.