EVE General Discussion

OK so you know what you want.

Tell me a specific system that will motivate you to fight every possible fight.

I don;t know of a particular system that would do it off the top of my head, though to fix the current one so it would work considerably better than it does, I've already answered this.
I'd make the minimum ship size for entosis links a cruiser or possibly battle cruiser, I'd make entosis links burn out and require around half their cost if you move out of range while they are active, and I'd make it so that you need multiple links to start a capture (not so sustain it once started) in higher defence indices. What that would do is ensure more people attacking sov were doing so because they actually want to to take sov, not just to make the defenders send out a ship to chase them off every 5 minutes.

We're being invaded by moa!

Winter has arrived in deklein~~

A bunch of small groups -did- become pets of that one coalition that existed to destroy us.

Sadly, it seems they were destroyed instead...

Only stupid players would engage a significantly superior force in symmetric warfare when asymmetric means are available.
Yes, you are being engaged asymmetrically.

Also, its not CCPs job in a sandbox game to create Sov mechanics that make you "want" to go to war. Its their job to create Sov mechanics to support you going to war. Its up to the player to want it.

In my Low Sec adventures I don't look to CCP to give me a reason to create content through direct fire. If someone appears in my space who has a standing of zero or less I just react and create the content simply because they are there.

Yes, we actually create our own content with the mechanics we are given.

And in the old Null Sec days when we had players engaging us asymmetrically we would chase them off and maybe get one or two them and then we formed up to fight one of our neighbors. We didn't blue the whole damn universe then complain we are bored and ask the Devs to give us a reason to fight.

This attitude that CCP needs to give you a reason to go to war is simply another sign of how stagnate many of the Null Sec players have become.

First off, forming a coalitions yourself makes you an equal force. Secondly, noone is engaging us in asymmetric war. Noone is actually attacking us for strategic victory. There's simply people who want to time waste since the system allows them to. You guys and your misunderstanding of how war works is funny.

Of course it is! It's 100% their job to create mechanics players want to use.

Good for you. We're going to create our own content by ignoring **** mechanics and farming isk.

Continuing the narrative... Up to nine different alliances now. The Irukandji. took SLIP's system. And one of the MC systems is now unclaimed.

You can dress it up however you want, but it's people who want to use the fact that the mechanics are boring to make the game dull for certain players. It's a failure of the mechanics to do what they were intended to do, which is make the act of competing for sov entertaining for all involved.

Then you'd be wrong. It's that simple. It's been explained hundreds of times over and there's no possible way you still don't get it, leading me to believe you have no interest in what we actually want. I'm not going to continue to rehash the same conversation over and over with you. CCP know that what they've put in doesn't do what they wanted it to do and they'll act accordingly.

probably. Though they've made such a mess of the whole system and so shockingly missed the goals they set that I don't know how they'd even pass it off as a success with a straight face.