EVE General Discussion

Meh.

I counter-suggest the following:

Merge CONCORD & Pend Insurance.


Instead of paying for an insurance contract, pay for PENDCORD mercs to protect you at an hourly rate which would be based on the ship you fly.

Make PENDCORD strong but not weaker than CONCORD -- think CONCORD late 2003 early 2004 if you were around.

If PENDCORD fails to protect you, you are then reimbursed.


also -- remove sentry guns from low sec

It is probably stupid to disallow these events ; they do create alot of activity all over high sec and in several aspects of the game BUT

On the other hand they should be limited in duration and frequincy

Why
you don't want betwee 1/4/ and 1/2 of the player base to unsubcribe because their playstyle is being griefed enmasse permanantly
and you can't force people to play a different style ; which they don't like? they will just leave and never come back

Having a hulkaggedon event every 3 months will do just that, and after you scared off all the highsec miners, killed off all the bots and decimated all the mission runners what next ?

EVE is a great game with alot of diversity of things you can do and different playstyles but taking away that diversity or those different playstyles only makes the game stale , boring and pretty much onesided

just ùy thoughts on these events

ps making RL threats, or so the rumurs go , is a serious offense and should be permabanned no matter who it is

The problem is that the mass of people you're referring to aren't being "griefed" permanently and aren't the incompetent dumbasses people seem to think. I've flown with a small corp trying to do different things and interacting with others outside the corp for about a year now and the picture some forum enthusiasts paint about the generic player or impact of these gank campaigns just doesn't correspond well with my perception of reality in EVE.

For example after talking with some people in a industry/mining corp you realize, that the people getting slaughtered in the belts during these special campaigns are the retards and unlucky losers of EVE and not the real organized miners. The miners scout out gravimetric sites, keep an eye out for strangers in local, know most of the tricks you can use to ensure survival and know what areas to avoid during a special ganking event. Consequently they don't get ganked on a regular basis and are able to operate even during the times when the forums predict mass exodus of miners from the game.

There really won't be an issue as long as CCP ensures, that miners have ways and tools they can use, which help mitigate and avoid the danger these ganking campaigns create for them. The thing is that CCP shouldn't balance them so that even the most stupidest and inbred miner is mostly safe from danger. The competent miners aren't in danger of dying out by these campaigns, so I would say, that the current balance is actually pretty good.

The bigger problem is, that mining as a profession sucks balls in empire space and doesn't reward you for actively playing the game over AFK mining. If mining would be more profitable and provide a larger proportion of the minerals on the market, the losses incurred could be recovered from much faster. If active mining would be rewarded, people wouldn't be so likely to AFK and be easy pickings for any random ganker. Boosting profitability and developing mining as a profession would propably do much to mitigate any negative affects gank campaigns have and they can be achieved by boosting and improving the professions, instead of just focusing on ganking.

It would be far simpler just to have concord pod kill anyone with negative sec status. Keep pirates in low and null, leave high for the carebears. Suicide gankers would need a fresh character for each attack, or to spend the time to grind sec status between attacks.

Before I get flamed I should mention that I DON'T think this is a good idea, BUT if the more "out there" speculation about mittens ultimate goals are correct it might be what he wants.