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I don't need to log into my routers at work, that's what the network guys are for. Does it mean I don't know how they work?

You implied it since you mentioned both qualifications while boasting about your router

Your issue could well be a software one, that comment wasn't directed at you. But I gave you a solution and you just started going on a rant about how much you love your router. You don't in fact need to do any kind of QoS per se. Just apply a bandwidth cap to limit no single application to use more than your maximum.

I work in the industry so yeah I do know how tech support works. It's based on time efficiency. You can't be efficient if you're trying to figure what a system is before you even attempt to fix the problem.

I am pretty sure we are all out to lunch on this. We are assuming that CCP is a normal company trying to provide a desired service to its customers. This depends upon their being in communication with their customer base instead of only themselves and the small ideas in their own heads only.

Instead, CCP provides solely their own bright ideas to us and force them down our throats, similar to a political system. Solving non-existent problems and totally destroying the game play for the current customer base, whether by game changes, system requirement changes, or just plain NO SUPPORT to the customer base. CCP is ALWAYS RIGHT, no matter what reality states.

My internet is continually saturated with the file checks each time I log in. My game is very unreliable due to their internet implementation. They are demanding monthly payments and then an excessive "upgrade your computer" tax on top to continue being able to pay and play. Again, a political system and not a real company with economic concerns.

If I am driven out of the game, I can live with that. The friends I have here will still be accessible via teamspeak. The ONLY thing CCP has IS its player base. The game itself will never be a modern type game, it is a social interaction environment that we currently find interesting and fun, but when we can't log in, we'll be forced to find something else to do.

If someone is demanding to die (or a company) it is unsafe to get in their way, step aside and let it evaporate on their own efforts or you may get stuck in their activities yourself. Now is the time to get an alternate method to contact your friends and aquaintances


OR.... just be lemmings and follow them over the cliff.

I've enjoyed the people in eve online, the game itself (continuous moving target) very much less so.

I sorry that change is so hard to adapt to for you.

Be very aware you are the minority here though, if a game is not constantly evolving it will just stagnate and eventually die. I run a laptop that's 4 years old and it runs eve with low settings and 2 clients. It's by no means a monster gaming laptop either only running a low end 635m discrete graphics card.

If you're somehow unable to meet such meager requirements, I'm afraid to say that you might have to look at yourself and see if there's a problem there.

honestly, I wish they wouldn't remove that, it has gotten me into the game on many occasions when the launcher did not work.

Just saying
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Celly

EVE has tended to appeal to a portion of the gaming community with sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies. My guess is that most of this subset of players aren't suffering from actual mental illness but rather are underdeveloped emotionally and this is reflected in their approach to the game and other players.

I don't think these represent the majority but they are a notable minority. Many others I think just like the lack of restriction on gameplay between players, and the attitudes this fosters bleed into the forums often.

There are also plenty of us around that believe you can enjoy playing EVE and still be civil. Just because the game mechanics allow or perhaps encourage you to be a complete ass doesn't mean you have to be.

However we choose to play the game, I agree with you that forums related to technical, customer, and game development matters should have a more civil tone as much as feasible.

If CCP truly wants to broaden the player base, then they also need to factor in the financial considerations that you mention. It's not reasonable to expect most players to upgrade their computers every year, so some balance needs to be found between allowing players to enjoy some of the benefits of the latest hardware while still facilitating gameplay on older, less capable machines. I don't know where that line lies, but it's clear from the graphics option settings for the game that CCP has some understanding of these issues and is at least partially committed to enabling play on older machines.

I hope that CCP continues to enable you to play the game with your current hardware. None of the proposed game development I've heard of so far would appear to require raising the machine requirements though I'm not certain of this. If this were changed right now, I think it would be at odds with CCP's business goal of increasing the player base.

My experience over many years has been that how people play a game usually reflects who they are. Some people come across in games exactly like they are in person. Others may appear civil in daily interactions, but you see a different side in games. I believe the latter is closer to who they really are when freed of the constraints of the norms and laws of human society.

There is a reason why our societies have criminal and civil laws and why some violate those laws despite the risks and penalties for this. Within the constraints of our laws, there are many who engage in unethical or otherwise reprehensible behavior. Is it really that surprising that this behaviorial range should both manifest and shift its mean in a game? I don't think so.

Yes, my post addressed both player behavior and technical / business issues since both were in the original post to which I was responding. I have no qualms with this nor with sharing my views on either.

Anecdotal evidence. Very reliable and widely regarded as accurate all the time

Every post I see that supports this viewpoint has its premise firmly rooted in a flawed concept: that people somehow cannot differentiate reality and fantasy.

This may be true for the minority with mental health issues, some even may play eve.

There are many factors to how someone behaves in life, but to a normal functioning human, they can separate what's acceptable within the confines of a virtual world with constraints and also what is allowed in real life. So when given the freedom to do so, some may exhibit '*******' behaviour (which again is completely subjective) and some may not.

As with any game, 'winning' is important. What's special about eve is that you get to decide what winning constitutes. If that's to blow up someone's ship then by all means you should take joy in doing that. Trash talking afterwards is also not a barred activity and it may also fall under someone's definition of fun. Not everyone reacts badly to trash talk, especially well adjusted individuals who is aware they are playing a GAME.

Yes, it is anecdotal data, but that does not necessarily mean I am wrong.


I would be more inclined to agree with you if EVE were truly a fantasy, but it's a game between humans. The game setting is a fantasy, but the players are real humans.

One of the consequences of the game rules and economy is that most players spend much more time earning ISK to buy ships than they do using those ships to fight other players. A few may buy their ships via PLEX and out-of-game money, but that strategy only works to the extent that someone else is willing to spend the in-game time needed to create ship-related resources.

Most of the minerals and other resources needed to make ships and ship components come from asteroid and moon mining, not loot drops. Someone has to spend real-world time to create all of that, time much greater than that spent fighting in ships. A lot of players may engage in PVE to earn ISK and sell or reprocess loot, but the latter only marginally reduces the amount of mining activity required. Mining is simply much more time efficient at producing minerals.

So when someone loses a ship in-game that has a consequence to them in real-life: the loss of the value of their time. That is not a fantasy, although the price may be acceptable to them if they can exchange that time for overall enjoyment of the game.



I agree that there are a lot of ways to potentially enjoy the game. Ship PVP is the area in which playing styles are most likely to clash, however, and that is another area where the "game=fantasy" argument breaks down. Losing a ship in a duel or a large fleet fight may be acceptable because both sides got to enjoy the struggle for victory. However, when a lone player gets ganked by 4-12 other players at a gate camp, I seriously doubt the ganked player enjoyed the experience. That is definitely a win-lose proposition in which one group of players derive their pleasure at the expense of another player. The ganked player may choose to regard it as an occasional evil of the game, but that only holds up if he or she generates enough other positive in-game experiences to make up for it. That's not a fantasy but rather a personal calculus of the value of the game and the type of interaction you are experiencing with other people.

The above choices of how we interact with other players reflect who we are. Our decisions and overall behavior may be shifted from the choices we make in the real-world, but they are not free of consequences for either ourselves or others.

Anyone who plays EVE for much more than a day or a week soon learns that it is a harsher environment than a lot of other games. If you stick with the game you have to accept that, but that doesn't mean it's all a fantasy. The people are real, and how you choose to interact with others in the game environment has consequences for the value of their time and their enjoyment of the game. That's why your in-game behavior says something about who you are, even or perhaps especially if that behavior deviates significantly from your actions in real life.

+1

Could there be another reason CCP wants us to only use the new launcher? Somebody in another post suggested with the game going limited free to play there is going to be a lot of people needing to download the client. What better way for CCP to reduce or forgo additional network costs than to have player clients scale (bittorrent / P2P). Also why is there not an option to automatically close the client after the game starts... They took that out of the new launcher it was in the options menu a few (4) months ago.

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