EVE General Discussion

I'd find some way to grief. Like bumping people away from the npcs, or remote repping the NPCs.

Nope, I would have gotten borde of it fairly quickly.

I would quit

No, sandbox PvP is what makes EvE special, and keeps me around.

Nope, would be a generally pointless game. I do PvE, but it's only interesting in small doses. And has little point other than to fund the destruction of internet spaceships.

EVE without PVP would be like a restaurant without a kitchen. The PVP is at the core of everything.

Honestly, I don't know. The idea that some crazy player could suddenly assault me (or that I can do the same) was a major draw for me. I'd at least stop paying for two accounts, I guess.

No PvP at all? On second thought, I would stop paying for my subscription and let my two accounts fall back into alpha-state.

No, what would be the point? There are plenty of games with <13 year old game engines that provide much better scripted content if I am looking for that. The magic of Eve like the player-driven market and player-created stories only happen because of the level of interaction we are allowed. Turning Eve into essentially a PvE lobby-shooter would kill everything that has kept this game going, and most people coming back, all these years.

If I may editorialize, that sad fate is what each buff to safety and income brings us closer to. Eve only works because it is a competitive universe featuring non-consensual interactions. Each nerf to non-consensual PvP brings us another step closer to an eventual fail-cascade where content creators give up on trying to make things happen in the universe and the economy, and thus the number of players logging in, comes grinding to a halt.

Eve is not going to die because too many players "get ganked" or can't run 13-year old missions in complete isolation. Eve is going to die after being smothered by more-and-more safety added by well-intentioned Eve players/developers who think they can indefinitely soften the competitive aspect of the game to attract more players but at no cost. At some point down that road, there will be a threshold where Eve is no longer Eve, and the game will not survive that, even as a boring lobby-based mission running/consensual PvP game.

I don't even PvP (direct, ship-to-ship fighting anyways) and I'd leave. Too much of Eve is PvP and to take that away is to take away a part of its charm, more than that, a part of its soul. It would feel too much like playing Skyrim or Fallout 4 after punching "tgm" in the console.

Wouldn't really matter anyways, CCP would end up shutting down the server due to lack of subs at that point. Most would leave immediately, while the rest would simply leave soon afterwards once either boredom or the implications of such a scenario hits them.

So the early consensus is "no, I would not care to try to breathe air that had no Oxygen in it"

However, it's only a matter of time till certain "One Note Only" characters show up and turn this into a CODE/ganking/bumping thread.