EVE General Discussion

Oh that's me, no worry. (:

That's a lot of make up then

Unless at you look at any thread about EVE anywhere ever.

Actually suicide ganking is an equal-opportunities rewarder, it's not like the tears suddenly stop flowing if you happen to be suicidally risk-inclined.

So anything in the game which can't be fully understood unless you read about it, hear about it, or see it in person should be removed? Amazing.

Let me tell you a story.

I started playing this game when I got banned from Darkfall, a player-skill based full loot pvp game with siege warfare and the best combat you could ask for.

EVE wasn't a game that was very exciting to me. The combat I felt was uninteresting to me and required little player skill. I only started playing it because it was one of the only risk/reward pvp games in existence. What was interesting to me was the complexity of the game so I continued to play it, not actually playing it but having it run in the backgrounds. This is the only way I will play EVE as it currently does not feel worth my time investment to get more into it. I don't play enough to be in a corp and have always been solo.

I used to mine in a hauler before the mackinaw changes. "Why would anyone mine in a hauler?" you might ask. The reason was because it had a cargo hold and i could leave it AFK while I got **** done in real life and played other games. Since I was only checking back every so often, it made more sense for me to play this way and I loved that there were creative solutions for your playstyle (or there was for me untill the Rattlesnake nerfs ).

I set out to play EVE with an AFK playstyle in mind. I maxed planetary interaction and R&D skills and I trained for a freighter, thinking that transporting goods would be the best way for me to actively make money with my character while AFK for long periods of time. At least half the isk used to purchase my freighter came from mining in a hauler, my first purchase over 400 mil.

I had been hauling in my freighter afk for several months before I first heard of "bumping", and then I still wasn't sure what it was. I had no idea that it was even possible to gank a freighter in high sec, and I did not pay close attention to the forums as I find most of the regular posters here to be disgusting people.

Even after 3 years I still consider myself a newer/casual player. I hadn't done a lot of hauling in my freighter but it It has only been out of sheer luck and my casual playstyle that I have not been ganked. Had such a catastrophic loss occured for me, I surely would have quit this game. The narrow profit margins of hauling in a freighter nowhere near make up for the excessive precautions now needed to ensure you aren't victimized by a bunch of greif monkeys that pay no significant costs or penalties for their actions.

When broken stuff like this happens and you see people getting away with it in high sec, it seems completely unfair and you will ask yourself if the game is worth it knowing that you will continue to be at the mercy of people who are often sociopaths and who seem to have all the advantages.

This game has really been on the ropes for me now after I found out I can't play this game like I thought I would, and after CCP Rise gutted the creative possibilities of the Rattlesnake . I only do afk activities anymore but I still pay a monthly sub in cash, hopeing that the game will change for the better soon. Maybe for some of you, this game is your life, but for many it can be fairly easy to drop once something pushes you over the edge.

TLDR: Casuals, newer players can own freighters. Suicide ganking does cause people to quit and its usually the casual, newer players who pay cash for their subs. It takes away from the game and causes disgust with the game from its players.

Do try not to be so obnoxious. Reality is far more complex than the extreme, black and white viewpoints which you and your ilk constantly present.

*sighs*

If at least you wrote something that's worth diving into...
... but you don't even believe your own words ...
... so what should I do? :/

So you're saying that you're upset that you can't protect yourself in this game by not playing the game?

Seriously?

uhm what were we talking about ?

oh never mind, it couldn't be that important

I remember Fabulous Rod. He spent a couple weeks spamming me with hilariously abusive mails on his alt after making a fan thread for me on the forums.

Because a Forum alt isn't enough, you have to have a mail alt.

Oh, no, I disagree, butthurt like that can only be genuine.