EVE General Discussion

Sure no problem.

Though I'm going to start with a question: Why are you insulting all players in this game in your thread title?

Sure, there are some folks making a fool of themselves, like The Mittani. There certainly are some players with a somewhat weird behaviour. But overall, my experience has been a completely different and rather positive one.

Ofc I have been ganked once. And ofc I've been ransomed. I even paid the ransom, having made sure before getting ransomed, that the guys doing this to me were likely going to honor it.

If you get ransomed without being prepared and do silly stuff as a victim, honestly, that's your problem. Just tell them to get done with it. If they don't pod you and still hold you for a prolonged time just because they can, now that would be something for a petition in harassment.

I've flown for a short time with some dudes that were part of events you mentioned. Great ingame experience in every respect, nice people to talk to on ts, folks that I'd have liked to meet in RL anytime. Although we probably would have been very different human beings that don't have much in common but EVE. And yet, who knows...

My experience is, that EVE has a good, mostly friendly and helpful community.

Sure, there are some assholes that are allowed to do their things. But you do not have to play their game.

Look at it like this: Blizzard created the dungeon and raid finder and eliminated most other game mechanics previously available to find a decent group, just to give those assholes a chance to play the game. The amount of complaints on the WoW forums shows, you cannot really evade them.

I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. As always I let some edge cases stay.
Please people, keep it on topic and above all civil!

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13 rules broken out of 34 rules total. 4 more and I would have posted the rules NOT broken.....

I can't believe no one liked my ****, I laughed typing it. Actually, a new(ish) player just gifted me 250 million yesterday for being helpful, he said I was a swell guy, I believe him too, I am swell. (have pics), also, I haven't killed anyone in a long time, no one's felt compelled to mess with me, I actually disagree with your initial * post, I changed my mind, you're wrong. The eve community helps to fulfill your internet spaceships desire,*Snip* Please refrain from using profanity. ISD Ezwal.

Well I was around long before the internet, have never played any online game except EvE and in my 4 year experience i have to say it's a great way for the naive to learn harsh lessons without harsh injury.
It's pixels.
You want change, you make it with power. I think it was Timothy Leary who crunched the miles of sociological data to conclude that the person with the fewest tricks for interacting with others will have those tricks honed to a razor's edge and therefore dominate any encounter. A limited range of ways to interact with others is defines as sickness.
Short version: sickness rules.

This guy.
Mr Kane destroys corps and is the terror of high sec. He murders whole fleets of carebears and drives them out of their corp and sometimes out of eve.
He is also a big softie. People that engage with him politely and honourably find him a valued friend. Corps that are being harrassed and he takes a liking to them find the corpses of their enemies laid in tribute at their doors. For causes that he likes he doesn't even charge.
This guy encapsulates eve. People with a poor attitude suffer and those with a good attitude prosper. Almost all the a-holes of eve are actually nice people furthering an agenda. Sometimes they disagree and become frenemies. People with a poor attitude however find it rebounds upon them and they lash out blaming everyone but themselves.
The experience you find in eve says a lot more about you than it does about the other eve players.
Welcome to the sandbox.

Actually you asked CCP Manifest a question he'd already answered. If you read the post that you've linked he clearly says that as posted in his previous post, which he quoted for your convenience, CCP are seeing both new players and returning players, which suggests new accounts being opened and old ones being reactivated.

The difference between new accounts and new players is negligible, any new account is new business, regardless of whether it's a genuine newbie or from an existing customer.

EvE is not a sandbox to start with its a theme park.

A PvP sandbox game is a game in which players develop tactics using objects placed in the sandbox by the developers, and other players develop ways to counter those tactics using the same or other objects. The developer acts as a referee. Their role is to place objects in the sandbox and modify the sandbox if certain tactics develop that become theme park (the only practical way to play the game).

In EvE the objects are ships, structures, modules and game mechanics.

Now having been in EvE since 2003 I have had the fortune to observe how EVE has developed and how the developers have added, removed and modified ships, structures, modules and mechanics over the entire 11 years of EvE's life.

In early EvE it was somewhat of a sandbox, there was high, low, null. Players who dared went to null and created empires. They fought over those empires using ships, modules and mechanics. Those that were really brave went 60 jumps into null, carved out an existence whilst fighting against other players. They formed fleets of ships and convoy's to bring back the loots of null. It was all player driven. To take someones space meant forming up a fleet and killing those other players, as many times as they had the spirit to try to stop you. You could be as creative as you wanted, you could do hit and run, you could scout and attack with massive force, you could solo pirate them. It was entirely player driven.

In comparison to the themepark we have now, which is basically "CCP's way" or the "Highway". You can hold space without being in system, you can go to bed while a megafleet is reinforcing your POS safe in the knowledge it'll be completely safe for at least 24 hours. You can't do hit and run attacks. There are no convoys to raid.

There is ONE WAY, the themepark way, to take sov, hold sov and use sov. Supercaps, structures, reinforcement timers, jump bridges and cyno's take the emergent gameplay out of the game because those things are so useful its foolish to do anything any other way.

The same goes for most of the mechanics in game now. If you want to gank a freighter you use catalysts, if you want to fleet up and protect your freighter, well you can't. If you want to tank the freighter, well you can't. About the only sandbox thing you can do is use an unintended feature "webbing" which was only intended to be a hostile module to try get it into warp before its scrammed by an out of corp alt that you can't hurt, because its a disposable alt.

A few years ago, after the alliancse became dominant to the extent null was a waste of time for creating casual content I created a corporation. It was a new idea thought up by me, a player. It involved offering players in game a privateers marque to enable them to fight back against the alliances in game.

It worked and it was effective. We patrolled high sec like the alliances patrolled null sec and we took the fight back to the alliances. They could have fought back, they could have arranged an extension of escorts or even psuedo-domination of parts of highsec to secure routes for their members but they chose to complain to CCP.

CCP nerfed the emergent gameplay and it was back to the themepark for the alliances.

You know, if I heard about a cut throat PvP all the time video game, first thing I'd do is want to stream my first experiences. Especially if I wanted attention.

Aside from that, here is my testimonial that I give in all such threads:

I was ganked. I was ganked 3 weeks into the game and lost my Venture and 40mil worth of implants. Those implants I got as some sort of signup bonus from CCP. I certainly didn't have 40mil to buy another. I didn't freak out, QQ in local, posting on the forums about ebil gankers, or threaten eternal damnation upon the guy who ganked me. I woke up in my clone vat... wondered what happened... then I figured it out.. I'd been killed by another player... OMG THIS GAME IS FREAKIN' AMAZING!!!! I made friends with that guy, he sent me some great "staying alive in space" tips that I still use to this day. Although I was terrible at it and I don't remember finding him a single target, I started scanning ships for him in Dodixie. Without that experience, I would have rescued that freakin' damsel for a couple of months and then quit this game for something else. Instead I've been playing for 15mo, approximately 10mo longer than any previous MMO.


There are some players that are rude and crude in local and emails. My wife wondered if it would be OK if my teenage son played Eve with me. I said no because a video game wasn't the right forum for him to learn about anal sex. The people who spew the most vial hate in chat are what bother me. But that's why I don't play X-Box live with a headset, because I don't need to know who slept with my mother last night.

The liars, cheats, scammers, pirates, gankers, awoxers, those are things that make this game worth playing. Without bad guys, the game would be boring. You get a tiny rush in this game just by clicking "Undock". Without made up enemies to smite, where is the fun?

Its because more players these days want to role play as the bad guy.

Ironically these are usually the same people who take one glance at my alliance ticker and go "lolroleplayers".

So, how's it going with those pocos? Are they still sov structures?