Crime & Punishment

Highsec is safe for you?

So, you must be at your keyboard. Watching D-Scan? Perhaps a glance at local every now and again?

In other words, you are following the Code. They win.



You are correct. Although its EVE, not just highsec, that is moving in that direction. What a narrow minded view. As I said before, in a few years (or less, from the speed of the nerf train), EVE will be devoid of any player interaction.

Oh, except for nullsec. Because every one of us loves grinding structures and falling under the iron boot of the Goonswarm Federation.

What about wormholes? Well, its pointless to spend ISK on WH fit ships if the guys in highsec are making just as much money. Same thing goes with lowsec. Why risk the loss of your ship if you can make the same amount in perfect safety?

Gee, that sounds fun. If I wanted to watch my wallet increase, I would play sim city with disasters off, set the speed to cheetah, and watch netflix. What fun.

Enjoy your victory.

EDIT:

Explanation of the "level" belief about nullsec...

EVE does not contain "levels". So often you hear things like "go pvp in null" or "I am a nullsec PVPer".

News flash- the guns dont fire hotter in null. Its just another security zone, that offers different mechanics from the others. Its not the endgame, its not the last level, and more PVE goes on in null than anywhere else! (Just ask some of the goonswarm mining slaves!!)

So the next time you want to claim how much of a badass you are because you "PVP in Null" (real nullsec dwellers are laughing at you, by the way) stop, take a deep breath, and dont type it.

Meh.

Just another challenge for the expert infiltrator/pirate.

One rather easily overcome, if you stop to think about it......

Add wardec fees AND higher NPC corp taxes into a 'war reparations bucket', and then allow war defenders to claim a high percentage of their war losses (minus any insurance payout) against that bucket and you are really talking...

Three birds with one stone. Those hiding out forever in NPC corps would fund the SRP for those sacking up and bringing a fight, while being incentivized to join real corps themselves, while also incentivizing defenders to bring a fight...

Broad strokes, sure, but just imagine a world where CCP and CSM always thought of 'fixes' to mechanics in terms of how to increase content-creation & conflict, instead of mechanics nerfs like 'social corporations' or 'corp lite' that gives bears their cake (100% war immunity) and ability to eat it too (be in a player corp)...

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How about getting rid of nonconsensual wardeccs? Why do you want to force people in to PvP? If they wanted that they would go to low/null. They live in highsec specifically to avoid that...it makes no sense to have the game force it on them.

You going to answer my question, Veers?

Yes...the fellow made it seem like his Eve career was over because he can longer easily awox players. I suggested that he go to nullsec for his PvP fix. True, it's easier and more profitable to PvP in highsec...I mean you get to beat in the heads of poor souls who can't fit ships, don't understand aggression mechanics, and have no PvP experience or skills. Great. But really? Does that actually give you satisfaction? And if you can't curbstomp these pathetic players then Eve is dead to you? That is just sad.

Discounting the fact that not all wars (not even the majority) play out how you describe, the answer is "yes." It's extremely profitable, and very much fun.

Would I rather be shooting groups of T2-fit HAM Drakes or Nanocanes in 0.0 with my own group of HAM Drakes or Nanocanes with nothing to show for it aside from the right to rat in a null belt in order to fund a replacement HAM Drake or Nanocane for the next such excursion, or shooting at faction-fit CNRs and autopiloting rookie ships with PLEXes in their cargo holds? The answer is undoubtedly the latter. You might disagree with this on moral grounds, but can you actually blame me? It's like putting a bottle of gin in front of an alcoholic, and then telling him "well, you can of course dress up, get out of the house, and walk for 15 minutes to buy some tangerines at the closest fruit market instead; your call, buddy."

So youre against any form of nonconsensual PVP in highsec?

What many are missing (including our 'balanced' CSM's) is that these continued nerfs cannot be viewed any longer on an individual basis, but in terms of the entire litany of nerfs to content & conflict over recent years.

With a clear history of 12 nerfs to hisec & content creation we are now at a -12 condition below HTFU zero gentlemen.

What is called for is a +12 of changes to increase conflict, balance the scales, return us to HTFU zero and restore balance to the force...er..EvE.

What we don't need is another -1 to HTFU with a 'don't-awox-me-brah switch', followed by another -1 to HTFU in the next release giving carebears 100% safe-from-wardec 'corporation lite's....

Here's a question. When did we decide as a community to make hisec into Disneyland or WoW?

We didn't, but CCP (and CSM's asleep at the switch) have been doing it in small stealthy moves over time. Very clever CCP, very clever...

But this is not my EvE. Is it yours? Are you comfortable letting an entire zipcode of EvE die to stagnation, perhaps just because you personally don't live there?

Vote Sabriz and Tora in the upcoming CSM elections.

Don't do it for me, do it for the children.

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what a terrible idea, so huge pvp merc corp just wardecs little mining corps, profit, this would create nothing but griefing on a large scale