EVE General Discussion

01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100111 01110101 01111001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101111 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 01111001

Cheers




OP,

Can i have your stuff next time you rage log?

Sov Nullsec is a group play area, so join an Alliance. (Or go raid in a SB or something)

NPC Nullsec, if you keep your PvP tastes relatively cheap (or become proficient at running pirate missions there, you can easily fund your PvP there.

There are tons of detailed guides to both styles of living. Or; join a corp and learn from their experience. Social game 'n all.

I must say; sucessful troll is successful

Part of the solution is to give people something worth standing and fighting for, and worth going to where the fighting is in the first place. We have a lot more than we used to, but other mechanics have made them irrelevant. There is generally little near-term material reward for running off an enemy fleet, so you get people bitching about bubble, gate, and scram mechanics if they don't wipe the enemy out. There is also little reason to expect any other outcome than one blob wiping out another blob, and so anyone on the fence is likely as not to just stay home - and to complain about blobs instead of points and bubbles.

CCP took a big wrong step with the WCS nerf quite a long time ago; if people know they likely won't have the option to withdraw, then they'll exercise the option to not participate in the first place. There is nothing wrong with using the opportunity cost of mounting WCS over damage mods as a balancing mechanism, particularly when you can just get more points, a hictor, or a bubble if you're serious about them not getting away. There are more things to fight over now, why waste that with the targeting range and scan res penalty?

The end result is a bunch of people sitting around in hisec because they know they're not going to venture out to do anything if they're in low or null, and they can rake in ISK right where they're at anyways.

The other problem is that systems are too small, and this stems from the sensor/Ewar stuff I'm always complaining about. This is not a warp-to-zero rant - it's about how the actual dimensions of the system don't really mean anything at all when anyone can get anywhere in seconds and you can find virtually anyone quickly unless they're cloaked or warping like a squirrel on crack. If pilots had to make decisions balancing emissions and visibility vs. ID'ing and locating targets, and it was actually possible to attempt to hide in the far corners of a system, then you'd see more pilots venturing out to cause some mayhem, explore, or look for loot.

Our space is effectively binary. You're in the system or not, and it doesn't really matter where short of mounting a cloak (at which point you're not doing anything anyways). They're not solar systems, they're an endless series of nearly identical tupperware containers.

CCP has, for a game studio, a decent track record of identifying bad decisions and making reasonable changes to correct them even if it means hard choices. I'm not sure they have any idea of where to go from here though - either they don't know why things are the way they are, or they're happy with the status quo. Sooner or later someone is going to address these issues in a new title, and that probably isn't going to be good for EVE.

WiS is NOT a bad idea... it's just been handled badly by CCP. there is a big difference between a bad idea and bad implementation. If you had been around for the 2-3 years prior to WiS you would know it was one of the single biggest features players were pushing CCP to develop. Back then it wasnt called WiS, it was "Ambulation". lol.

http://youtu.be/CeanIPs0yws

They need more than just CQ, and an actual reason to use WiS... I have a feeling more will come with the Dust release.

Personally I would like a Corp-only "war/strategy room"


I don't want WiS to end up like PSHome though...what a huge failure that has been for several years now..

Yea, EVE has been dead a long time.

Why to conquer 0.0? to rat more and that is something you can do without sov.

Then you shoot some some structures that does not even shoot back and if you get fight it is lag fest .

Skills needed? no just blob.

I think OP said it all.

Sad thing is that there is no game any better because same players are going to play all games and players are what they are so if you want better game try to play real life.

pretty good troll, still going

The award for the most bitter post February 2012 goes to....


...wait who cares.

+1

I remember a friend of mine when he first started playing (he still is) saying why do roids not block line of sight - he had tried manuvering his ship behind a roid to avoid incoming rat fire.......

That little example leads on to the bigger question of how to develop strategy and environmental effects in the game

I sometimes run tournies with corp members - the best we can do in making the environment interesting is to run the comps at asteroid belts in 0.0 - ......