EVE General Discussion

Actually Darkness of Despair has been shooting money moons in Stain. There's definitely something at stake. Then again it's pretty apparent you don't know anything about the nullsec political situation.

Wow, really? That's like, a Friday night at the bar. {insert outrage that people make "real" money off playing a game}

I never really suggested it was good enough. It would make sense in a PvP game for everyone to shoot anyone not in their alliance, but sadly the vast majority of players in this game are simply afraid of their own shadow and the thought of a challenge. So they seek help to ensure a victory. The fallout to this thought process is it forces the opposing side to do the same and more. So back and forth it goes with each side trying to gain the upper hand in the situation till you finally have two ultra super blocks with so much territory that they are too fat to fight.

The sad reality is what we have in the west is two major power houses who don't want to grind any structures, because they are not looking at shooting structures on one moon, or one system, or one constellation, hell... not even one region. They would have to grind several regions to achieve that 'victory'. Even if both sides decided to do real combat (sorry, tossing SRP ships at each other in some scheduled Thunderdome does not count) the outcome would be determined after just a few major battles. The rest of the war would be grinding, grinding, grinding.

Then you would see all kinds of corps and alliances assessing the situation and realizing they are on the losing side and immediately bail out or switch sides for 'safety'. Honestly can you blame them though? Why stay and lose everything asset wise fighting a war you can't win? Which by them leaving/switching sides just makes the decision even more obvious for those who were on the fence.

The real enemy. The true face of evil in all of this is power projection. Why should someone living in Period Basis be keeping tabs on activity in Tenal - much less over there fighting? Not saying that is what is happening right now, but my point is it takes literally minutes to cross the map and project any amount of force you want. All this does is cause an arms race. A race that has no end but constant gobbling up of warm bodies in the name of 'defending your territory'. Territory that simply gets larger and larger as you pull in more and more people. The possible enemy sees all this and they follow with the same philosophy.

PRESTO!!!

You now have the stagnant piece of crap null space you see now. It has been the same song and dance for years now. The same recycled faces and names over and over and over. Sure you will see a once in a while change, but it is either short lived or eventually surrenders to the same beast that has been devouring null for years. It just has become more and more obvious because there is far more people playing. Back in ~the day~ vast amounts of space and limited power projection kept these kinds of things in check. Splash in the various bridging methods, jump drives and other various methods of instantly moving from point A to point B and you hit the wall we are now staring at.

You simply can not take a crap without it being reported across the galaxy on how much and what color withing seconds. We have dozens of highly efficient methods of gathering intel created by the players in combination with absolutely easy methods of in game mechanics to know potential enemy movements. This knowledge fosters a tremendous amount of risk aversion because of that. You have capital ships traveling regions in a matter of just a few minutes to be cyno'd in by some NPC alt on top of a couple low sec dreads - just because. Which of course will send a clear message to become even MORE risk averse.

In closing in this TL;DR post; everyone is to blame for the current situation. Only when CCP addresses the issue by them waking up or us forcing them to do something about it, will it ever change. Until then, enjoy the boredom.

You're really well hidden up there.

Why?

Wormholers bring a fleet of Billion isk T3 ships from the ship replacement program funded by capital escalations. They farm them back in two hours of anomalies, how long is your average call to arms? Do you get to drain the SRP of a Billion isk per CTA on average? (i'm honestly asking, don't know).

Why are Wormholes heralded as the last real PVP in EvE and Null gets bashed? When Wormholes have been nothing but ship replacement program thunderdome. With batphones making sure the participants only get bruised, not crippled or killed.

Someone please explain this to me.

is tossing SRP ships at each other in scheduled fights over timers real pvp please enlighten me

All that does is enforce the thunderdome by game mechanics limiting the size of the engagement, favoring "billion isk cruisers" over "billion isk capitals". You also have not answered the question.

Why is Wormhole Thunderdome the holy grail of PvP, but Null Thunderdome is a joke that must be frowned upon.
Why is it looked upon with respect when a wormhole corp welps a SRP fleet, but Null residents in SRP fleets are called risk averse care bears and looked down upon.

Why must null go grind structures to capture systems they don't want in the first place to appease spectators, but it's OK for Wormhole corps not to POS bash every system they connect to and set up their own towers.

is this why you want structure mails removed

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I don't know. I guess some people need to attach the label 'Holy Grail' on to something. Wormholes may not have local (yay!), but that leads to smashing the directional scanner button every two seconds (lame) in another effort to stay safe. With enough people on, you can large bubble any entrances to your system and stick an alt there cloaked with the volume all the way up so when someone jumps in, you hear it. The moment you do everyone gets safe. Another thing is it is common practice to not log in anything as an invader till you have enough people there to do a slaughter. Is that ~good fights~? Of course not.

Maybe it earns that title from people by the simple fact of no cynos. How many fights these days in null and even low sec result in one side starting to lose a sub cap fight and suddely...

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Enter on the field, well... anything. Anything from more sub capital ships from a titan bridge, to carriers, to dreads, to super carriers and even titans to body slam onto the "I Win!" button.

Sure it can lead to a massive battle where it makes the news and thousands of people are involved, but how often does that really happen? Once a year?, maybe? Bottom line is there is people who will easily give up on the an annual large battle to have dozens and dozens (even more) good small to medium scale battles without the holy grail of power projection. The cyno.