EVE New Citizens Q&A

TiDi:

Time Dilation. Where the physics simulation is deliberately slowed down, to give the server a chance to keep up, to have several thousand people all acting in the same system, in a fair manner. at 10% TiDi, a module that used to cycle in 3 seconds takes 30 seconds. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it used to be.


Whelping: Take a fleet. Lose a fleet. You may achieve your goal, but survival wasn't important.

Thanks a lot. I appreciate your replies. I didn't know what answers I was gonna get, but even so, I was surprised by the answers. I thought EVE could handle a crap ton of players at once..... Ah, yes. It can with TiDi. It makes sense.

But whelp took me by surprise. Seriously? Sacrifice a whole fleet for a win? That is what they call a pyrrhic victory. That's no victory at all.

Eve Online players used to experience extreme lag when entering systems where many players were present, by encountering many other players on grid or on your overview, or whenever players from goonswarm made an ahh chain. CCP has fixed this condition by renaming it time dilation.

My first welpfleet was a group of T1 frigates with cheap fits going on a trip through nullsec. We have destroyed battlecruisers and even some T2 cruisers; the total amount of ISK we've destroyed far exceeded the price of our ships.

A ship is a tool, it's not your character, it's not your soul. You are supposed to use it, and if that means you are going to lose it while achieving your goal, then why not? You can buy a new one very easily.

It's the same as suicide ganking. Grab a catalyst, fit it with as cheap stuff as possible and few rounds of faction ammo, go to a belt, attack and destroy a mining barge, watch CONCORD comes and destroys your ship, enjoy poor miner's tears - you have just destroyed a ship worth of several times of your loss.

The only way how to not lose a ship at all is to never undock...

Oh, yeah. I forgot that this is a game..... It's O.K. to have pyrrhic victories around here.

TIDI: Basically lag being turned into a feature!

Though in all fairness, it´s one of the better ideas CCP has come up with.
People will nowadays complain about half an hour of warping and what-not but there were once reports of whole fleets jumping into a system, blackscreening for 30 minutes and finally loading into their clone station.... (the lagging of old aways favored the defender of a starsystem and of course that got abused as well, Eve being Eve and actually a lot less civilized than today).

Yes. It used to be literally dog eat dog. It's actually gotten less barbaric.

Is that why your portrait looks so sad?

Meta game: Anything that happens that's not directly blowing up spaceships. Basically. Covers politics and skulduggery (A word I don't get to use enough)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagaming

I don't think I agree with that. I have always defined Meta gaming as being when you use out of game resources to give you an advantage.

An example of Meta gaming being the 'Log In trap'. Even AFK play, no matter what it is can be viewed as a form of Metagaming as the player is effecting the game in some way without actually being there

The Log In trap being when you catch a loe on his own, you warp in to engage him, suddenly to se all his mates appear in system and insta warp in. They had all previously logged off and were waiting for the 'bait' ship to give the 'call' on Team Speak or the like

Wikipedia Quote

"Metagaming is a broad term usually used to define any strategy, action or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed ruleset, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. Another definition refers to the game universe outside of the game itself.
In simple terms, it is the use of out-of-game information or resources to affect one's in-game decisions."

You could also describe actions such as 'Bumping' to stop a ship from warping and even Jetcan mining as Meta gaming as they use game machanics in a way not originally intended.
There is a very fine line between this form of Metagaming and Exploitation and as fast as you get one person arguing one way, you will have another arguing the other way

Oh, one last thing. Guys, I have only picked the examples as I have as they were the first thing off the top of my head, let's not get into a 'debate' as to the rights and wrongs of using them, there are more then enough posts covering them.