Out of Pod Experience

Like I said: capitalists are childish, superficial bigots. His songs are something you'd expect to be popular in Caldari or Gallente cultures - which is why I wouldn't choose those.

Christianity and Judaism, however, don't think that the poor are irrelevant and worthless, like the Caldari and Gallente would think, since you brought up Tim Minchen's song about sodomy and suicide bombing - and because CCP like appropriating Jewish symbolism for their purposes:

"This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy." - - Ezekiel 16:49

Most subtle beginning to a reigious troll I've ever seen.

They are not that bad for you

We are simply more civilized and refined than those reactionary General Discussion toads.

Soft or hard cheeses? Personally I prefer a nice bit of Mature Cheddar, none of that stuff with the blue bits in.

Don't worry. I started to pick up threads on this section too.

As a religious person I'd like to say that I don't think that CCP meant that all religions cause problems or do stupid things (although some have, can and do). They meant that the Amar's does.

Secondly Posting why your leaving is just asking for trolls. Eve is harsh...so are it's forums. I wouldn't expect any thing other than troll posts and mocking words.

So because you don't understand what the game is about you want to change it?

That's like complaining about the complexity of chess and demanding the rules be changed so it's more like checkers.

New players are perfectly capable of contributing if they're willing to a) lean and b) specialize. Veterans have literally no real advantage other than being able to use more stuff. There really is no point in 'catching up' unless you only care about SP, which are, on their own, completely useless.

I've never heard of a 50m sp character with 45m sp in science somehow being better than a 15m sp character with all 15m in combat skills. That's not even counting actual playing experience.



You should really look up the word 'generalization'. From the overall posts you're making it's probably a term you're not familiar with.

Of course, ironically i'm reinforcing the negative stereotype you seem to have formed about EVE players, though i don't think either of us will care about that.

Your other points are, by any means, matters of luck, taste and persistence.

I'm glad EvE isn't a politically correct love nest for tolerant hippies who love one another with sunshine and rainbows.

I'll address the skillpoints and "always being behind" whine because I have addressed this concern in the past and have a standard response for it.

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The skill and ship class system is ingeniously designed such that newbies CAN compete while providing veteran players with perks that give an edge here and there... but nothing so brokenly overpowered that a newbie has no chance.


- All skills cap at level 5. No matter how many years you have played the game, you cannot exceed that limit. And lower level skills (ex. [Racial] Frigate) are very quick to train relative to more advanced skills (5 to 7 days for frigate level 5? Try getting cruiser to level 5. Or Battlecruiser. Or battleship. Those are 30+ day skills. Same applies for all their respective weapon systems too).

- Only a limited number of skills affect any one ship, module, weapon system, and specialty at any given time.
Ex1: Someone you are facing has about 20 million SP, but how much of that overall SP is actually combat related? He/she could be a HUGE industrial player with limited combat skills.
Ex2: A veteran player has just trained up the skill Large Hybrid Turret to level 5. That skill in no way affects the skill Small Hybrid Turret and thus the veteran will be no better or worse than before at the frigate level.

- Getting a skill from level 4 to level 5 only adds on an extra 2% here, 5% there (exceptions apply). If you simply train up all the skills within a specialty to level 4 (which takes a fraction of the amount of time it takes to get those skills to level 5), you will find yourself flying at about 80 to 90% of the effectiveness of a multi-year veteran with those same skills in that specific specialty at level 5 (which is something that can be easily overcome with the right module or tactic).

- Getting a skill to level 5 is supposed to be a painful train. Many players (yes, even veteran ones) opt to avoid doing it and instead train up other skills to level 4 (again, because it's faster).

- Ships and weapons have been balanced against one another.
Ex: A battleship can potentially instapop a frigate... but the frigate can fly very fast, making it difficult for the battleship's weapons to track, especially at very close range... then again, the battleship can deploy drones to deal with the frigate... and the frigate can shoot the drones down... however the battleship might have a Large Energy Neutralizer fitted to nuke the frigate's capacitor power every 24 seconds... in which case the frigate could use a Small Nosferatu that sucks out capacitor from the battleship every 3 seconds... etc. etc.

- High tech equipment (ex. T2, Faction, Officer, etc) will not confer a player "I WIN" abilities. They simply give a player a linear edge at an exponentially higher cost.
Ex: A group of two or three T1-fit frigates that cost about 500 thousand to 1 million ISK CAN kill a faction frigate worth about 50 to 100 million ISK... provided they are using the right mods in the right configuration and know what they are doing.


tl;dr...
- the point of the skill system is to force you to learn the game's mechanics and nuances in cheaper equipment and ships... that way when you DO gain access to more expensive equipment and ships, you know HOW to use them properly (and won't cry as much when they die).

- you DO NOT NEED to have level 5 in any specific skill to be competitive. Having level 5 in a skill is simply an edge (exception: when it is required for something else).

- more SP or "age" is not indicative of a pilot's ability. It just means that the pilot may or may not have more options in what he/she can do.

- no one ship is superior to everything in the game. Even Titans, the largest ship in the game, has an Achilles heel; smaller ships.