EVE General Discussion

Because people doing the same thing over and over bores me. Like you, for instance. Your trite and often employed 'Griefer lament' argument is stale, lacking any vision or imagination. It's all rinse and repeat, the clarion call of the sandbox that berates you for not doing it the one right way. It's what follows me on my way out the door.

Your transparent claim to 'carebeardom' belies your obvious troll of how carebears are to blame for all the woes of Eve. That mentality may work in Nintendoland, or Xbox Live, but here be people with a shred of critical thinking skills and generally a higher level of intelligence. We can spot BS fairly well, and your post contradicts itself into irrelevancy. Then you want to criticize the fact that at least I went out into the 'dangerous' parts of Eve, something most players simply won't do, as if that somehow bolsters your argument.

The fundamental beauty of Eve IS fitting in with others regardless of the fact that Eve can be downright hostile to players...why do you think that organizations like Goons, TEST, PL, etc have done so well? Because despite their obvious social and emotional deficiencies, they manage to form a coherent force that few can reckon with. And they do it without being a mush-brained sycophant. That's why I respect them, even if they are out to ruin 'Our game'. They can do well what most cannot do at all, and for the most part, they do it as equals.

Next.

Newbies

But what happens if we need researched blueprints, since the carebears can't sell to us? Well then:

"You need us to mine for youuuu"

Another thought-provoking block of text, shamelessly stolen from Eurogamer.

A sandbox can only be as deep as its creators allow though, and Eve remains a world tied heavily to CCP's fiction and rules - at least away from the low/null-security frontiers. In the second decade though, the game is stable enough to get more ambitious. "[The sandbox] should go as far as players want," says Lander." So, features like designing ships instead of just using pre-built ones? Having willing players replace the CONCORD NPC police force in high-security space? Destroying the four empires and shifting the universe entirely to a corporation and alliance driven one? "Oh, god yeah," Lander answered immediately - to the concepts, not confirming their imminent additions. "A lot of Eve's restrictions, they're because we had to get it out of the door."


I'm going to quote this again. "A lot of Eve's restrictions, they're because we had to get it out of the door."

Seems to me, CCP wants EVE to be even more harsh, cold, and player-driven. From my understanding, all these things the 'bears love and cherish were forced on CCP due to design constraints and, IIRC, publisher restrictions.

Given their druthers, EVE would have no CONCORD, no highsec, no Empire, and we as the players would run the show.