EVE General Discussion

I wont Lie It did get the goose bumps and that fuzzy warm feeling dont tell no one though

Lol I will. However The next Trailer I see I wanna hear more ladies speaking on those comms

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TLDR: ***Potential flame material warning*** These are my opinions and opinions only.

A friend of mine posted this trailer on facebook. To which I posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSjd6HNQdY&index=57&list=FLuXNGoPRvBEYnKqhBtRv9OQ

I then followed up with:

"New mechanics have come into play that will probably kill such large scale battles. What's more, the alliances involved/advertised rarely (if ever) recruit. They are made up of comfortable alts that run so called 'noob swarms' with each player having a kill/mining quota. The aforementioned new mechanics will also serve to cut the numbers of these alliances so recruitment is certainly out of the window."

Imho, null sec hinges on the renters now. If I had my say, no renting. Either fight for that space or wait until it becomes unsustainable to hold, then take it. Rentsec sounds like a terrible idea. Though in defence of Eve Online I did finish by saying:

"Eve Online is a good game, in fact it's a great game with great people so long as you understand a few vital points:
Everyone wants you ship/loot/life, trust nobody.
You will never see most of the nullsec/endgame content. It is owned by superpowerful alliances that don't want you running those missions. If you want the rewards you must buy it from said alliances, if you want the story..... sorry but it won't happen."

I have returned after a few years of inactivity not because of the trailer, but because eve is a great game even with all of it's flaws. However I do remember the ol' "Scam an alliance" trailer. Yeah, that one made me quit as I had recently suffered a similar fate. lol.

Flame me if you must, these are just my opinions.

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One of my favorite EVE sayings apply: if you aren't having fun in a sandbox, it's not the sands fault.

I know it's the internet, but dear icleandic space God, I didn't realize so many neurotic haters existed till I read various comments about how the trailer isn't real EVE. Hell, I deal with people accused of crimes in real life and THEY aren't as hateful as people on the internet are when the subject is a video game they dislike lol.

This is a lie ('misunderstanding of the game' isn't a strong enough term here).

The gates out of high sec don't generate a pop up asking "who sent you, are you friends with the right folks" before letting you jump to low or null or wormhole space. The stations in low and npc null doesn't ask this question either. The npcs in low, null or wormhole space don't deflect your bullets like wonder woman's bracelets if you're in the wrong alliance.

EVE is a sandbox MMO, and like all sandbox MMOs there is a benefit to grouping up, but none of that prevents a person from living purely solo. plenty of people do it and many don't even live in high sec. If you're in high sec it means either you want to be there or you don't want to be there but you're too anti-social to make friends (any friends, not just 'the right ones') or not competent enough of an EVE player to fly a ship that can fit a cloak and/or dock in an npc station.



The 2 areas of your post I highlighted illustrate what has to be part of your problem with EVE (or how you perceive EVE). "Others players don't want me to do things" has been the mantra of many uncreative and unambitious players since the dawn of multiplayer games.

(I mean ALL multiplayer games, not just electronic ones, thousands of years ago some dude playing an ancient form of chess complained about the same thing, and for the same reason, to psychologically mask his own lack of ability lol).

That there are people to compete against is the PURPOSE of a game like EVE. Where you see barriers (that somehow hold people in high sec), others of us see minor obstacles which have to be dealt with and understand that fun comes from dealing with (outsmarting) those obstacles. If the 'barriers people' spent near as much time trying to figure things out as they spent giving up then complaining about NBSI on some forums, they'd have beaten down those barriers by now.

The last part, the part I underlined, demonstrates a rather fail mindset, and one demonstrated by many a misplace thempark player in EVE. Themepark games shield players from 'undue' influence of other players .

Sandbox games do not, sandboxs allow nature to takes it's course, with sandbox-freedom resulting in natural inequality between the capable and the incapable (and also resulting in the also natural phenomenon of the incapable complaining about the natural order of things on the nearest forum).

******* goose bumps.

Trolling much?

This is a good quote for people who don't understand nor how to truly play the game.

I'm not saying that to be insulting or mean. It's just that, from the 10 years I've played this game, I've never really played well with others. I've mostly always been solo and yet, I still manage to get into any content I want.

I mean, yes, it's difficult if you're not invited to the party, but that's what EVE is all about -- crashing the party if you want too. Who is going to stop you? Surely not the developers in almost all cases.

The problem is that so many players are used to game developers holding their hands and saying, 'Yes, you should have access to this content. Let me make you a private instance and virtually remove all human interaction from your experience unless they are apart of your approved list of course."

That's not EVE. No hand hold here. You get a ship, some guns and a nudge in the right or wrong direction. And for that, that's why I mentioned you don't understand nor know how to truly play this game if your only come back is, "you are consigned to high sec."

No, you are not.

Please don't copy WoW. Pandas in space would really suck. If that is what you call "expanded game play" i don't want it.

Expansions in most MMOs do not expand game play. They add one more linear story that everyone somehow independently completes.