Assembly Hall

I am a capsuleer. Many are like me, we all are eternal. Assets are replaceable, and I will live on. Be the change you want to see. Snuff the flame that burns, take action shroud it as reaction. The only method an enemy has to crush your spirit is for you to fail in your own efforts to overcome a threat. Nobody in new eden is invincible, and nothing is safe. I get podded a lot, and I miss the days where you lose sp from not upgrading your clone already.

That possibility was great for bringing a fight to more skill adapt players. Skill for skill you had the chance to even the score. Now, because of the weak, the game play has been diluted to the level that once someone has more skills than you they always will. That to me is not a fixed game mechanic, that is a broken and flawed system set in place to appease the spineless. I've lost months of SP and never lost sight of the joy the future can hold. Stop diluting our game play, I enjoy a challenge and I value these type of options. Even being on the receiving end of all the griefer dec crap. I enjoy the fact that this is an integral part of the game, it grants me the option to do something about it.

It takes whits, drive, determination, and pure undiscriminating grit. Stop trying so hard to get rich, do what you need to be wealthy. The rewards will come poring in, reap the benefits of the friendships that last. Those are the ones that matter when real battle begins. The saying isn't "Don't fly it if you can't afford to lose it" for no reason.

Most importantly.

Nothing ever goes exactly as planned.

If you look into my timeline, everything has happened for a reason. That reason is I allowed it to happen, thus I have no regrets. Any thing that happens to any of us is for that same inherent reason. That is EVE online, that is the sandbox factor. It molds us into who we are on this game. Turn it into content, and never ever give up. Just stop being a slave, start being a capsuleer and nothing will be impossible. These minute obstacles will become an advantage to gain leverage from as you learn to overcome.

this is why i play.

This has always been a PvP game. You always compete with other pilots whether it's for resources, trading or even direct conflict.

It does not matter if you are a high sec miner or industrialist in your first month of play or you fly super capitals in Null or Worm Hole space. The prospect of losing a ship you had to train hard to fly and earn the isk to buy or manufacture is an eventuality every pilot knows whenever he or she undocks.

How you play the game and what your end goals are. Is entirely up to you.

If you dislike PvP, stay in high sec. You will still lose ships from other players however it won't nearly be so volatile as Low, null or worm hole space.

You can run missions in high sec, mine, manufacture and trade to your heart's content. However, you are restricted to what you can do and how well you do it by your training time. Playing more often can improve your talent as a capsuleer. But it will not improve your skills unlocked at all. Becoming good at whatever you choose to do will require time.

If you do not want to PvP consider grafting yourself onto the multitude of corps who specialize in protecting PVErs, ie Aegis protects industrialists for a cost you must give up some autonomy but this is like irl. Find a great corp to protect you and offer them your non pvp services it is true it will be indirect pvp but it is a pvp game, and this is not even hardcore pvp, that is found in FPS...

I never get bothered in 1.0 space you can stay there if you want to or learn to use Warp core stabs and cloaking

Always report offensive behavior that goes outside of the TOS.

I am new to the game and i keep finding myself wondering at how nice everyone is, even a lot of the people that kill my character. There are some nasty stupid people but i will get my revenge on them eventually.

I haven't been here since 2005, but Eve is suppose to this way - full of scams and gankers:



I highly doubt New Eden ever was the space utopia full of good, hardworking citizens you seem to remember. In fact, everything I have read says the opposite.

I pulled a p sick burnout in some of the new ships, one could say they were almost ill.

Groups like goonswarm helped making scamming and other tactics more viabale and seem to be do able (no not a grr goon, just stating a fact) as more players came into eve more people decided to play the ****.

But its ALWAYS been this way

I would just like to add I took a 18 month break from eve to return from what used to be a 120+K playerbase at the times i play to now a 20+K playerbase.

Sure, they got rid of a lot of bots, so they say, but the game has gotten way too easy and i can only imagine how much players gave up because of that fact. Instead of making it simple for the new players and taking away the struggle to get to the point you have a solid income system, be it with missions, industry or pvp, they now just hand you everything. Simple mechnics like Clones, why did they feel the need to mess with that? Because the stupid and the dumb forgot to update them, died and came here to cry. Why is an ice belt in hi-sec an anomaly that doesn't need seeking? Because the lazy came here to cry.

People who like the way things are running never post it on forums for 2 reasons. 1. Why would they? They're enjoying the game, they're having fun with it and like it the way it is. Why should they start a topic saying: "i really like this game" which 9/10 turns into a flamethead by people who dislike it. 2. Yes we might like the game but that doesn't mean we want it to stop growing an moving forwards.

They already made it a lot too easy to start off in this game. Just yesterday i was in the Help chat trying to help someone figure out how to fit his catalyst. He played the game for 2 days and already trying to PVP. What monstrosity has this game become? I don't recognise it anymore.

you're just completely missing the point but sure, w/e.

The point is that it's fantastic that newbies can start playing the game from day one, instead of having to spend ages on stuff that added no value, like learning skills to help me learn skills. I'd say my previous comment was spot on.