EVE General Discussion

I'm starting to see evidence of my Graphics giving out... and my fans... and my Disk Drive (does total lack of function count as evidence?)... and that's what I get for playing on a 5 year old laptop.

The biggest thing I noticed switching to windows was the dramatic boost in fps. From 8-12 on OSX to 30-40 on Windows.

Again, the poll does not show that 25 percent of players "are interested" in pvp - it only asks whether pvp was a factor in their signing up for the game. The post you've referenced, Lucy, was meant to be sarcasm, hence the 20 shift-clicks and the secret password bit. All we can safely infer, assuming the sample size is statistically valid, which I have no reason to doubt, is that of 18 options to choose from as answers to the question "Why did you start playing EVE?" 11 options were rated higher than pvp.

And Ruby, haha, I did suggest a ganker restitution system but that's not meant to support turning EVE into a carebear themepark. In RL and in this game, I'm a pretty fair-minded person. I seek a middle path and look for compromises in polarizing situations. It's an useful asset.

I just do not accept that this game is meant to be a construct that, by design, divides risk-takers, who eventually migrate to low and null, from risk-averse players, which graze in high - offering the latter as victims to enhance risk-taker gameplay. The idea that the reverse is also true and that ganking enhances risk-averse gameplay is highly speculative.

In a system with both high security and low security, increasing levels of danger should realistically present themselves as one radiates outward from high toward low. But increasing penalties for crime should be equally prevalent as one radiates from low to high. Risk vs. reward. 0.5s should be more risky than 1.0 systems. Just as ganking in 1.0 systems should carry a stiffer penalty than ganking in 0.5s. Yes, I know that currenly the penalties are scaled with this intent, but the argument is that the current penalties are an ineffective deterrent to high-sec crime altogether. High-sec crime shouldn't be impossible. Never. I wouldn't take that position. Sandddboxx!

But let's be frank also, the existing deterrents are obviously a joke with month-long events like Hulkageddon illuminating that hypocrisy. Obviously sec status reductions and the knowledge that Concord is around gives gankers zero pause whatsoever before launching a high-sec gank.

Players have created a festival with prizes for the most violations! It's hilarious.

I wasn't attempting to take away anyone's ability to gank with the restitution suggestion. I think risk is a huge part of this game and EVE would suffer without it. Restitution is a widely-accepted RL practice equated with justice, so it seemed logical. And, as restitution also isn't a deterrent to crime, I fail to even see how it got thrown in with the suggestions to turn EVE into a carebear themepark. lol

It's just an idea I generated to address the perpetual dillema of risk-averse player complaints over 300m isk hulks being destroyed by 10m isk risk-taker dessies - and simultaneously - also ending any potential insurance isk faucets, as the isk being moved would now be from player to player and already in-game.

It'll probably never happen anyway.

Yonis Kador

I wouldn't mind WiS to go casino gambling for isk. Cha-ching! Where's my Quafe!

Or having the ability to "meet up" with friends in a bar to have drinks with in-game penalties to attributes relative to the number of drinks consumed.

Or to interact directly with merchants and having the ability to haggle them in person as opposed to direct purchasing from the market screen.

I'd even fly 30 jumps to catch a WiS play in Dodixie or a WiS punk rock concert in Rens or to maybe see a CCP speaker avatar giving a dissertation on economics in Jita.

Wars could be ended when two CEO's sit at a physical table and actually sign a document and a screenshot of the event could be sent to all involved parties instead of the current tweet system.

Corps could hold open recruiting in an office at such and such station by appointment. No more recruitment channel trolling - walk-ins only. That would be different.

The only way WiS will be successful is if the content is rich and varied, but really the possibilities are endless.

YK

Never said that. Though don't let that get in your way.

Merely implied that whilst there are people who would like all risk removed from hisec there are also people who would swing the other way.

Why did CCP have to outlaw can baiting in rookie systems? Because there are people who would do it all day long if they could. The same kind of people who forced the UO split forced CCP to bring Concord in.



Elucidating.

They pop up here & there.

It was possible to choose many reasons in that question.

This.