Out of Pod Experience

I made a lot of friends and had some ******* EPIC battles, absolutely ******* EPIC fights. Unfortunately those are all gone too :(

Playing from 2007, actualy got 600mil isk on wallet, long time ago my max was 25bil. i stay here, losing money isynt reason to leave game. Long time ago i change view on this game and my play style, every one may be happy even without money in game.

The most worse thing that people do in game is , that they focus only on ISk, focusing only on earning and endless ISK farming-grindg is bad and make people unhapy - or like zoombe. Playing only or focusing just because ISK is bad.

Me too! But I have acquired much more than that in my short time. That is irrelevant, I am abrasive to people as their replies tell me a lot more about them than if I am nice.

Why not just send a bill or so to some absolutely random people? It just may make their day... may even let them take some greater risks... you may even set off a chain of events; "In chaos theory, the butterfly effect..."

The incursion nerf was enough that it made people too risk adverse to really go out and fight unless they had absolutely overwhelming numbers or 100% chance of victory...which is just stupid because it doesn't cost all that much to get a BC or a cruiser and get a gang and fly....but people are people and they cling to their isk waaaaay to much....at least when there was a good source of income, the highsec folks grew some balls and started roaming lowsec, because they could make up their losses in a week.

Hell, even most WH people are like that, did a C5, then a C6 for a while...half the time either they would POS up or my failures of corps/alliances would POS up...

I don't know, it is what it is, maybe they'll figure out how to get things going again for everyone. FW changes were a good start, but that is fairly limited in the big picture, not everyone wants to do FW. More accessibility to funds helps a lot. I have my losses, I didn't care so much, even after the incursion nerfs I still would take out 2+ bil t3s and lose them, but some people just can't deal with it unless they have a pretty regular and easy way to recoup.

The biggest problem is making the game require more and more of people's time. It alienates the casual, which is where you're going to make your money. The past few years of "expansions" has just alienated the casual more and more, it's unfortunate but it is what it is. Like me, a lot of the casuals are usually good for at least 2 accounts once they've been playing a while, which is another big hit to revenue once they start leaving.

By no means is EVE dying, but I don't forsee it being like it used to be again unless things take a different course. The industry changes were about it for me to want to continue...big slap in the face, pretty much invalidated the last 8 years of everything I had done that wasn't pvp focused. I was willing to hang around for a while and just do my thing pissing around with PI and industry with my alt for a bit, but it's really just not worth it to me at this point.

Sucks too, I just finished training up for all the dreads lol. I had taken a bit of a break because of work and didn't log in much, ended up getting the boot from my C6 corp for inactivity. They ended up joining Disavowed, of which I found out while still part of the corp aren't really all that, and honestly nothing for any of the WH dwellers to be afraid of...I'm not sure but I think they failcascaded eventually anyways...

It's been fun, but just not my cup of tea anymore. I need something less involved honestly, life and all that...EVE just isn't it...

You've gotten your cause and effect wrong.

Incursions are actually at fault for the current situation, thanks to them causing such rampant inflation. That's why ships cost ten times as much as a few years ago.

But static direct income injections, that being isk from missions and bounties, was never adjusted to compensate (and rightly so, otherwise we'd all be screwed by now). But that has the effect of hitting the new player the hardest, as their income streams are rather more limited.

So, you can blame inflation for the current woes of ship replacement cost.

It has to deflate before this will be addressed.

Fair enough.

I think the changes to industry are just something that were so large it takes a lot to understand the whole picture. When only looking at it from a personal POV based on the way you were doing things, it is easy to feel like you got screwed. When you step back and look at it with fresh eyes and acknowledge the game changed, it seems it opened more opportunity. But I haven't informed myself enough to form a cohesive argument, these are just impressions so maybe I am wrong.

Hope to see you back someday.

It won't it's a persistent problem that once the market gets to the point it did, there's no turning back. Look at plex prices. You are right to some degree but the availability to acquire isk after 6 months worth of training in relation to the effort to replace ships was enough at that period to get some really good pvp, and constant.

This was one of the last epic fights to be had for me and my motley crew:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=13069607
It was a 3 way on the gate into Obalyu, absolutely epic...about 45 minutes of people killing and reshipping and my little band of 6 or 7 ended up winning the field, was one of the best memories I have of that brief little period that there were good fights. Had others but that one was always my favorite.

I remember you. And your post I'm quoting is like a mini "walk down memory lane". I was looking at Zedriks bio and the links to his exploits and wondering if such days were behind us, and I remember your posts in C&P were always good stuff.

One more name of olde gone, so many not seen any more - maybe the days are truly behind us.


Oh well...

Good luck! o7

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