EVE General Discussion

Well that sounds boring. A universe where you're not free to be as good or bad as you yourself choose, and where your decisions do not have legitimate and lasting consequences, does not interest me. The fact that other players directly impact my experience and I directly impact theirs is what I like about EVE- So I'll be taking a pass on Star Citizen, kthx

Did they 'fix' it? I was happily huting those shiney Federation cruisers trying to farm Borg in my F2P Bird of Prey.

pewpewpew, 40 bucks saucer went poof.
pewpewpew, 80 bucks saucer went poof.

Could do that all day. For a few weeks, as it got boring since noone actually lost anything. They were still complaining.

But hey, my whole crew was consisting of slave chicks with barely any clothing. Such feature!

I think this is just another in the long line of EVE Darwinian selection.
Adapt or die.

It's a harsh galaxy out there. You either learn from your mistakes (which, quite frankly, were pretty stupid) or you go play another less demanding/challenging game.

Your lack of experience, understanding of game mechanics, failure to learn from your mistakes and the resulting rage quit post leads me to believe that you self-identify as a cheese danish ( no offense towards the Danes intended).

I for one will promote low-sec because it is a great place to learn the game.
Fear of low-sec is silly, a healthy respect for the mechanics is not. Once you learn to survive and thrive in low-sec you have learned the skills required to thrive pretty much anywhere in the game. As long as you follow the most basic Eve rule (fly what you can afford to lose etc.) then there is absolutely nothing to fear in low-sec, and the experiences you find there will benefit you immensely.
This is assuming that a given individual is capable of learning from experience....not all can, and those that can't probably won't last long in Eve.
Not seen a meat grinder in low for a while, but then I don't generally operate in the busy low-sec areas, no profit in it



I honor any ransom I offer....I don't generally offer ransoms.
As far as the game being rigged against you....nope. The game is rigged against everyone equally. Anything one player can do, any other player can also do. Just because someone/ group is better at it, does not make the game rigged, all you have to do is learn.

@ OP: Failure to learn is not a mechanics issue. Failure to adapt is not a mechanics issue. By all means players can disagree with, and debate the relative merits of, any mechanic they like...but if it's in the game it can be worked with/ around.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
-Charles Darwin.

Well, he is right. If you don't have a game, nothing can happen.

Played for a month now, this post will therefore be loaded with ignorance. Please bear with it.


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CHAOS 1100 characters, 70-80% newbie kills?
that nobody of the much-heralded "Great Community"™ feels responsible to bomb
your Alliance back into mining corvettes says alot about the actual state of the game.

Well of course they dont. its impossible because those "consequences" and "riskvsreward" phrases dont apply to vets
with several hundred bilions in bank, hundreds of millions of SP to get back on their feet and n+1 Accounts if all else fails.

Not that it matters if it was possible because everyone in lowsec is the effing pirate king, missioning or bigger combatsites
are nigh impossible to do cuz some dimdum ganker in a T3 dessi will pop up within minutes.

Dont worry youre only one facet of the Problem that kills this game. Im sure it was a great game at some point a decade ago,
but by now it just feels to new players like they are the main "content" for a bunch of rotten sociopaths.
and the worst of it is that this atitude is rubbing off very fast. highsec is overpopulated like a damn slum, its propably natural
to start elbowing but it just makes the game unfun and depressing. again thanks in part to the clone army that the vets implemented.
want to see a billion-heavy ship? just wait for 10mins in a random highsec site.
my personal highlight was a 3 day old alt flying a rattlesnake with a gecko in tow.


IMO this game needs to ban multiaccounts and pull a hardreset,
along with some serious reworks to tackle the creation old money if it wants to survive for much longer.
And this is not just my view on things, i've heard from other newbies about it as well. Wordings like "walled off" and "static" are used here. Industrial scale newbie holocaust is just a part of it.

Hear, hear! Eve is dying.

Anyway. How did you figure the killboard link you posted (but should not have) contains mostly newbie kills? I just randomly picked some of them and checked up on those characters. They were all more than a year, some of them many years old. If you still think that "T1 Frigate" equals "Newbie", then you clearly have a lot to learn yet and are not in a good position to judge what would be good or bad for the game.

Provided you can stay under the radar and as long as you don't become too much of a threat to anyone else, you'll do fine. But raise or perk enough interest and you'll soon find yourself the focus of numerous war decs and mercenary corporations that descend upon you.

Stay small, think small and you'll probably survive (at least for a time). But entertain any thoughts of ambition or grandoise notions and you'll soon find yourself served up as content for someone's sole entertainment.

There's a reason EVE's population has been in steady decline. Most have figured out that the only way to win EVE is to not play in the first place.

I can't believe you're actually trying to compare Starcraft and EVE (or maybe you meant Star Citizen?) I don't really think you can draw any comparisons between the two other than that Starcraft has been more successful and appealed to a wider player base.