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Oh I don't know , I find his postings rather amusing. His humor is a bit crude I agree, but I think his point is well taken.

Why does anyone play Eve? Certainly not to become a "lick-spittal", "step and fetch it", or "arse kisser" (like Ira keeps hinting).

I think his complaint is that, while the primary theme of Eve is the sovereignty wars in zero space, there is no meaningful way for new pilots to participate in it. It takes the better part of a year for a new pilot to learn the ropes and be vetted and judged worthy of membership in a zero alliance corp, and even then the only position they can play is what Ira termed "ass licking" cannon fodder.

I have to admit that his rather crude description of the situation is essentially accurate. The significant positions beyond "cannon fodder" are for the most part held by a handful of pilots who have acquired their positions through a combination of RMT, botting, and either the fact that they were playing Eve in the early days or were head of some 5000 member online club outside of the Eve game. The metagaming aspect of Eve is actually greater than the game itself and this is made worse by CCP's unwillingness or inability to design around it. This is not good for Eve and is detrimental to attracting new subscribers. The "Moons=Plex=Cap Fleet=Sovereignty=Moons" Syndrome excludes new blood from participating. Once the new subscriber figures this out, he either quits or limits his game play to WH, trading, or industrial activities mostly in highsec.

At this point the brainwashed of the "Dear Leaders" in zero storm in to protest that this is a lie and they sing unending songs to the glory of the rivers of benefits they receive from their masters. All to no avail for the thinking and self respecting of Eve because it is obvious to anyone what their true motive is from a cursory review of the forum. The Zero Space mafia requires grist for the mill...


Que the counter propaganda......

Adding this to my second post (first is too full of old thread quotes)

Thank you.

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If you think the Mittani's main concern is the "average player" of Eve... You are delusional. There is only room for one "Queen" in the Hive.

Considering the source of your comment and the topic ... I am going to disregard it.


Haahahhaaahhhaaaa Wicked!

I wasnt even saying that, I was saying "let ME play the game MY WAY"
Plus, theres no "end game" in a sandbox

From now on please summarize your long ass ******* posts so I don't lose interest and move on to the next thread without even finishing this one. I could be missing some great stuff in these long posts but I'll never know it because they convey only soul-crushing boredom to my eyes.

TL;DR, short posts.

Thanks, sweetmeat.

Paranoid about goons? You shouldn't play League of Legends, either. One of my former agents (Randuin) is staff at Riot.


I'll save Malcanis the effort of correcting the badposter who has no idea about the focus of Goonswarm on the newbie situation. We have always been about newbies in 0.0 and wrecking the old guard; one of the primary reasons why GSF and myself personally oppose the Dominion sov system and Supercapitals is that these erect tremendous barriers to entry to getting into nullsec for smaller alliances.

Back in the day, all you needed was a few towers, a pile of rifters and an axe to grind. Today, you can't even grind your way through Dominion structures without wanting to kill yourself from sheer boredom unless you have a supercap or three to chew through the bloody things. And how is a new alliance going to get supercaps without getting rich first? Before the tech rebalance, valuable moons were everywhere in the galaxy. Nowadays, if you want the income to crap out supercaps, you need tech, and you have to fight and seize that tech from the folks who have 100+ supercap fleets - a tall order for a sub-1000 pilot alliance.

In sum, nullsec as it stands currently is laughably broken, and any sensible commentator or nullsec resident knows it - which is exactly why nullsec, in a rage, seized the CSM.

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