Wormholes

https://www.themittani.com/features/time-derail-gravy-train

When i first started reading this I thought "oh great, another nerf wormholes article" but when i was done reading, I found I agreed with everything he said.

What are some of your thoughts on this?

It's an idealistic article.

It's a true one but an idealistic one.

There comes a point in all games where everybody becomes rich. Eve has hit that.

A billion isk doesn't mean anything anymore.

Make eve harder. Maybe.

A bit uncalled for Winthorp but...

I think many people feel incursions earn too much isk given how safe they are to do and it's probably past time that ccp changed things up with them.

On the wormhole capital escalations, if they were "turned off" it would probably lead to more people farming their connections and thus, more activity in space. I could be mistaken but i think Corbexx is an advocate for the removal of escalations too and it would be interesting to hear what he has to say on the subject.

This quote says it all about the author's grasp of reality:



Those guys don't:


Those guys just leave, because a dystopian society makes for a great thing to read about, not to live through.

He's not wrong on any particular point, but the article itself should just be titled 'sh!t we already know'.

I dunno about WH nerfs, it's one of the most dangerous forms of pve, even NS carriers carry less inherent risk.

However I agree that the 'small things are neat' is aids. Eve's combat per se is boring - equip the right stuff, maintain the correct range, shoot the right target. What made it fun was the fact your opponent LOST a lot of isk/time if you won. The adrenaline came from taking your new mercedes into a nuke fight and hoping it survived, not the actual combat itself. The feeling I achieved with t2 cruisers and t3 BS once can now only partially be replicated by using a dread, and I can replace even thos multiple times over.

All in all I agree with twostep, eve has become risk free in the sense that, even if I lose everything, I can print out 100M per hour easy just farming incursions in hisec, or even more with simple trading due to the massive market expansion.

What used to be a land filled with full-blown autists like myself, people who stabbed each other only in the places it would hurt most, is now filled with prancing normies having pillow fights with each other. Even if you win the fight, the feeling of accomplishment is similar to beating a 3 year old at chess.

So is the next patch gonna be called Krabageddon? When all the krabs move back to nullsec?

Eve online: The great krab migration of 2015

Are you guys of the opinion that cap escalations are the problem or the fact that they can be ran multiple times before they despawn?

I hope it's the latter

When I was on the CSM, I basically said just that. Nullsec PvE should be group based, just like wormhole PvE used to be. You have to be in a group to take space in nullsec, why should you be able to make isk solo (and mostly risk free)?



I have done just about all there is to do in EVE, from highsec industry to nullsec. The whole article is about that the issue is not "I need something to do" but that when I do stuff to other people, they should care. That is what sets EVE apart from other games, and it is getting watered down every day.

Also, wtf is Ark?

Also, I love how your next post is basically agreeing with everything I said. I have no problem with capital escalations that take 10 or 15 people and some time to complete, so people have a chance to jump those people.



Uh, I lived through this. I have gotten so damn mad at this game so many times back in the past. My problem is that people don't get mad anymore. If you haven't done exactly what I described, you aren't playing EVE right.

Amen brother :)