EVE General Discussion

Don't know that campaign but the fact it was unsustainable doesn't surprise me.

If a group did manage to artificially keep mineral prices high in a region all what would happen is that region would become more attractive to other regions. I just don't see it happening where minerals are concerned, certainly not over a long period of time.

Not sure we are playing the same game bud.. Unless you are trolling.

I am not complaining about the price of T2 and faction ships.
I only pointed out that CCP shifted ships "worth to fly" from battle cruisers and battleships to T2 cruisers and faction battleships.

Some people pointed that i am poor , well i am.
I am typical nullsec poor guy that after years of living in nullsec have 4-6bil/month flowing into the wallet ( and i know that is not much , but it is enough to me)

Problem is that i got to this point by crating myself big collection of high skilled characters ( thanks to character bazaar) - this took time , and new guys who come to this game don't want to spend years , they want to have fun now.

What was wrong in the battle cruiser class ?
That is was cheep T1 ship doctrine , not using moongoo in production?
New guys could pretty fast get into them and have fun with others - when the battle cruisers where most commonly used ships in the game we had 35-40k on line , and national channels where full of new people.

TL;DR:
- CCP actions put us in position, that good ships are expensive ( good ships = compared to old battlecruiser capabilities )
- people who are affected the most - are new players - they have low income , are unaware of many things and have to pay more and more for new ships

Forgetaboutit. Eve is an old game. Senior Citizen old, as MMOs go. PvP in Eve looks a lot like PvP did in the "old age" of EQ1 PvP. Not really possible for newbies to compete with old timers, and a good percentage of the "newbies" that you meet are really alts created by old timers that have been "twinked", (expensive fits, booster alts, e-war alts) in order to kill any actual newbies who happen to fly by. They're the equivalent of a de-leveled rogue with an epic weapon named "N00bkill3r" hanging out in a level 12 area.

That's the way it is trying to be a new player in an old game. Everybody (except you) knows every trick in the book. Sorry.

You can still have fun as a new player in an old game. You just have to pick your spots, and fly under the radar. Even in an old game, some people still suck, so there are still targets out there for you if you can avoid notice. You need to avoid notice, though. If you, say, put together a large newbie alliance and try to take a 0.0 region, you're going to have a bad time. You french-fried when you should have pizzaed.

You can still play Eve as a new player. You just have to be crafty, until you become an older player, and/or make some powerful friends.

To address the OP directly, CCPs track record when it comes to intervening in the meta is really, really, not great. You are, in effect, praying to Loki, the God of Mischief. Who knows what you'll get? The way to handle it is the way that it is being handled. The players themselves are stepping up and giving newer players the hand-up that they need. Orgs like Karma Fleet, and Horde, and maybe an older and a little wiser Brave Newbies, giving a new bro a hand up and a proving ground for those who are good enough to advance, and the countless tutorial creators, bloggers, and tool creators out there that give a new bro a clue in a game that can be pretty confusing.

And what new technology do you speak of that allows huge blob warfare on a single shard from wherever you are physically located in the world? Or should I say other than EVE?

Even in the heyday of EQ1 we couldn't get a few hundred people in a zone w/o crashing it. Heck it'd crash the zone with 100 people in it and there were always zones going down. A modern game, say GW2, doesn't work any differently, it's just scripted combat with a few costly AOE's, same thing. Hit the population limit and the zone fragments into another instance. That's progress?

It is beyond that.
One example:
Previously, a High Sec corp that has relatively new members and had a war declared on them could get into battlecruisers and give a good fight back. The effectiveness of that possibility is severly reduced currently.

That's an example that's super dependent on the specific parties involved. The effectiveness of that has always been highly dependent on the competence of both the leadership and membership of the defender and of the aggressor. My first experience of highsec pvp was as the a defender in that exact situation flying a brutix and being successful.

I'm legitimately curious as to why you think this was the case previously but not now. I kind of agree, but I doubt for the same reasons.

I disagree I think it's because of reverse power creep.

This is the real reason you are complaining.

You are not complaining because T1 cruiser is weak vs T2. You are complaining about shift of the current Meta in nullsec.

Adapt. Move out of nullsec.

In lowsec, you do not need wtfomg OP T2 ship (read: basically just Ishtar) to have fun (read: allowed by FC to join fleet). You can roam solo or small gang to create your own content in T1 frigs and cruisers.