Crime & Punishment

Mechanics change, and people will adapt, as they have done in the past. The only way CCP can stop operations like the New Order is to change highsec completely, to a non pvp zone, it would have to be non pvp, consensual pvp only guarantees that we'll make it non consensual through trickery and guile.

They'd kill the game off in the process. 10 years of pretty much continual rise in subs says that CCP are doing something right, especially as a niche game, because main-streaming it, would kill it. Eve is not for everyone, and neither should it be, as some one said in another thread, Eve is a contact sport for your brain, it's meant to be hard, dangerous and brutal, it's a game for thinkers and planners, and those that will do anything in the pursuit of power, influence, riches or a huge corpse collection. Morals have no place in Eve, they are a weakness to be exploited.

As pictures of me in tinfoil hats do exist..

I am quite curious to hear your explanation on the declining value of PLEX, while the sub base goes up.. and has some rather stable and strong daily numbers since Retribution.

Please, make it about can-flipping somehow. Sprinkle it in some where with your retort, that'll probably have the same coherence of your previous post.. where it's like watching a kid jumping around in a ball-pit, swinging wildly at the other kids while screaming for ice cream. What flavor? That would make me giggle.. and I haven't giggled in so long.

I heard.. each time someone ganks a miner, CCP dumps an additional PLEX onto the market. That would explain it.. yes. It helps inflate their numbers.. while they get to keep both sides of a dellusional mindscape happy. A+ marketing team.. these aren't the numbers you are looking for.

I'm pro-boom!

Money, baby. Money.

rabble rabble rabble

Mint chocolate chip.

Every conspiracy theory you have seen on Youtube is Real.

Your turn.. Now.

Catering to the masses may well make CCP more money, but it'll be short term, I'm hoping long term is where CCP has set their sights, I'm not against CCP trying to tempt more players, but changing the game to the extent that "belligerent undesirables" can no longer operate in highsec goes against everything that Eve is. They're taming highsec down, for better or for worse, but I don't believe that they'd dare to go the full hog. The Incarna riots and mass unsubs would look like a storm in a teacup compared to the reaction if they tried that, and they know it. There's plenty of players that haven't forgiven them for that debacle, some of them probably still have multiple unsubbed accounts because of it.

They have a very successful niche game, with tens of thousands of players that have put long term time investment into their game play, it's a game that you play for years. Why would CCP want to alienate those people that have put up to 10 years into playing their game just to attract someone who sticks around for 6 months and moves on?

Attracting the shiny/I want to play an MMO solo $$ is fine, but those players don't stick around, they're not interested in the long game, they want a quick fix and an extremely low risk enviroment to get it in, they are not loyal customers. Worse still, some refuse to adapt to the game, instead they want CCP to change the game to suit them. It's advertised as exactly what it is, if people don't do their research on what they're getting themselves into, it's not CCPs problem.

I came into Eve, with no experience of MMOs, it's the only game that's held my attention for coming up on 4 years, without interruption. I did my research, I knew the reputation of the players, I had about 4 trials before I got hooked.
Eve hooked me the day I took on a can flipper, and died, I hated that people could do that to me, but I accepted it, I researched how the mechanic worked, and I adapted. I also dreamt of being the villian, sadly the best I've managed is shiptoaster, so it's a dream that has yet to be realised. 4 years down the line, I can see the value of the lesson I learnt during my trail, ship loss is guaranteed, but it doesn't have to be yours.

TL;DR:
The moment you accept Eve for what it actually is, rather than what you think it is, is the moment it becomes a truly great game.

I'm so confused right now

I've played this game for awhile now and seen it all come and go. I'm sure I'll be able to have fun at someone else's expense regardless.

This. ^

No matter what buffs carebears get, some of us will find a way to gank them. EvE is still about non-consensual PvP.

I don't know.

Pssst!... you -are- a care-bear.

A ganking carebear?

How novel!

Do tell me more!