EVE General Discussion

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OP, if you wish us to "please consider" something, then please consider writing it here instead of linking to your blog.

First of all , when i started to play eve , we had still working drake.
It was excelent ship for all.
The main and most important "feature" for a drake was that when it died , you loosed around 20-30mil after considering ship insurance.

Now when you want to take a similar "good" ship to a fight you will loose well over 100mil , or even more.

So im not surprised that people are more averse for loosing a ship.

Seccond of all , don't be surprised that people are afraid to undock - when i raid someone i have usually well formed gang - so they will just feed me kills or if they undock better gang i will just go elsewhere

So, this is a topic about pvp and risk adverse, right ?

Well, me I'm what you all call a pve guy (or worse). But this is EVE, so there is no clean pve playing, we all are forced to pvp one way or another. So this is my pvp playstyle: I avoid pvp as much as i can... (Hence posting on alt - remember, I avoid pvp)
I don't mission in gankers-paradise systems, I fit my ships in a way they don't think it's profitable to attack me, I ignore griefers completely, and I know that doing this I don't contribute to "your" playstyle at all.

There are several reasons i choose to play EVE that way. I'm not a youngster anymore, my reflexes and eye sight are limited already, so real pvp is hard for me to do. It takes me a long time to learn strategies, even just for pve, and the few times i get jumped (or ganked) it takes everything to respond in a way i can counter it (Which for me means to avoid the confrontation entirely). Another thing for me is the ship loss. I don't care about the money, I could afford quite a few losses - but i really HATE having to replace it, I hate the time it takes to go shop for all the components. Give me a tool to go to any trade hub, load up my last ship fitting and one-click-shop the same setup - that might help shorten the time lost ....

My main has around 23 mill SP now, when I feel ripe and ready I'll be visiting the "dangerous" places more often. I have the idea to try and move into a WH to see if i can do it, and yes I know the risk in there is much higher than in HS, but when I move there I will know the dangers and will be ready for it (I hope).

No, I didn't join a corporation - I still have a boss at my rl job - don't need another one when I game. I did the guild thing way back when playing UO and Everquest, it's just not on my menu anymore.

You can call me carebear or coward if you like, I'll just call gankers and griefers bullys and triggerhappy snots in return.

This is nonsense.

It doesn't cost anywhere near 100mil to get a ship that can effectively pvp. You can have a fully fit t1 cruiser for about 30mil.

Infact if you want to make yourself engagable you don't even want a "good" ship, I try to think of ways to make ships people don't consider a threat to be useful to make people more comfortable engaging.

The attitude of we will stomp them or not fight at all is exactly what has stagnated the small gang (less than 5) scene.

Too many people for whatever reason don't want to risk dying, which is sad in a game, because it makes it boring.

Bad case for eve. Smart people will realize in 1-2 attempts that SP is the biggest force multiplier that prevents all combat PvP success until you have at least 50-70 million of it, or another SP wall leaping mechanic such as being the 5th wheel in a fleet that doesn't need you, but can help you leap the SP wall.
Hence unless the said person is a pea-brain, doing more PvP leads to doing no PvP, unless "being content" and "PvP" is the same for you.

You won't get better without theorizing either, which kinda ruins your point.

Wanna try that in eve... whoops, WTB 100 million SP toon.


Learning and getting better in eve for the first 5-6 years is done by a training queue ONLY.
There are sports like chess, where doing something 100-1000 times will only make you worse through being less variative and more predictable, and no matter how you want it to be wrong, eve is closer to that.

Repetition is the road to grand failure.

That's not even remotely true. The biggest multiplier in EVE is by far game knowledge. Knowing how to utilize all the tools at your fingertips. If you have 1m SP and your opponent has 100m, but you know how to probe, use dscan, what to expect from each ship type, and how to fit, and he does not, you will almost certainly win.

Actually doing damage to them is just the formality at the end of a long chain of observing, trap laying and outmaneuvering. The best way to be successful is to educate yourself on the way EVE works. Repetition is pretty much the best way to do that, once you get the basics down.

@Basil Pupkin

I'm not sure, is your post sarcasm or are you in some kind of twisted dual Universe where everything is the opposite?

I, for one, disagree. Until we can post pictures of Jessica Alba's 'assets' on the forums, Feyd's blog is the only place on the entire internet with any worthwhile EVE ideas.

As Kaarous suggested, go check his posting history.
Be warned that it's full of hate, lies, superficial crap and hypocrisy.