EVE General Discussion

This has nothing to do with "Necro" .. It's about killing the enemy. Period.
War doesn't dertermine who is right .. only who is left.
Reality is a cruel mistress who doesn't play by your rules or ideology.
You take away all they ever had and rest assured they won't be using alt's to haunt you.
You take your toy out into space with the intent on blowing up a ship or podding someone..
but if you go out there knowing for a fact you will die and never come back ..
you'll think twice.

Right now, I'm just waiting for skill points to tick over. As soon as I'm running Level 4s for income, I'll start training some frigate skills for a small gank ship to use in the meantime. Before I made this character, I had a different character which I used for one month and racked up 600m kills with 100% efficiency so I'm not averse to PvP in any way, it's just I was still learning at that time and wasn't completely happy with my the appearance of my Avatar or some of the decisions I'd made with it so I decided to take that experience and start fresh. Currently, I've been playing EvE for less than 2 months, this character is about 3 weeks old.

I don't make money from PvP 95% of the time
Unless you find a tengu and force the pilot to eject. I got a few hundred mil from that once.

I didn't mean to sound like a PvP prodigy or something, haha. Those weren't solo kills, they were actually killing blows I'd gotten on roams and in other fleet-based PvP, so it wasn't all my own hard work. The reason I deleted my old character was that she was a bit of a goody two-shoes and I decided I wanted something a little more aggressive and a little darker to reflect my personality... If I'm going to be playing a character for the next 5 years or so, I figured it's better to switch over early on than to play a character I'm not happy with for many years. I'd also joined a large, fast-growing corp that had a weak foundation and I wanted to distance myself from them as I was becoming increasingly disappointed with embarrassing kill mails on our war report and felt the leadership was starting to buckle under pressure.

Allergy.

It seems that I am extremely susceptible to all forms of high speed energies in a concentrated form.

It's a huge pain really. Any worse and I would even be allergic to light.

I'll tell you what stops me actually enjoying pvp, note I said enjoying, not participating.

The ******** rant diatribe earbending from the "leet" Pvp'rs when you get another ship blown up.

I dont mind losing the ship, with my track record I have become immune to it, I purely hate some basement dweller beating his epeen.

yeah I know - HTFU

Then play EVE.

Why can't you? I don't understand really. If you don't feel like pew pew, go do something else. Home defense is a different issue, but who wouldn't like to defend what they have built?

PVP in EVE sucks!


That being said I finally found the closest thing there is to fun PVP which Red vs. Blue.

Glad somebody thought about cutting out all the leet middleman crap and just do it no bull battleground style.

The crux is that I do not want to be looking over my back when I am not wanting to pvp. Staying a NPC corp, while not ideal, allows me to do just that. If I stay out of low security when I'm doing exploration or missioning or whatever, I'm fairly safe. It is not likely that I would be attacked in my mission ship. I don't use expensive modules, and I would still be a hard kill, so the gankers would likely get concordokken before they could get a kill mail of little value.

I don't usually have much trouble with ninja looter/salvager although it does happen from time to time. I deal with them by warping out fairly frequently to make probing difficult, popping wrecks if they do find me, which makes them move on fairly quickly. Though occasionally one will be fairly stubborn. Half the time I don't even bother salvaging unless there is a particularly high amount of large wrecks.

I play for my own enjoyment. I am not someone elses content to be farmed like an NPC. Which is what happens when you open yourself up to pvp and you do a large amount of pve content. I been there, and I done that, and now I'm in an NPC corp. I get that most players either don't understand that or disapprove of it, but it is the solution that brings me the most amount of enjoyment from the game.

I would love to things like faction warfare, incusrions or participate in all the neat stuff you can do in low/null, but losing my money maker (mission ships) to pvp fits is not my cup of tea. I didn't come to this solution without having experienced a problem already. I was in a low sec corp at one time. I lost a couple of ships to ganks, and the last was my a hurricane (the replacement hurricane is still in my hanger). I lost that last ship to frigate that kept me locked down as soon as I left dock while he called his buddies up to come kill me. I couldn't do anything for like 20 minutes until they finally showed up and killed me. I had just resubbed, and at some point my corp at the time had been wardecced and I didn't know about it. I learned my lesson well.

I'm not dumb. I learn from my mistakes and take efforts to not repeat them. Others may not understand, but that is how I came to my current conclusion. I get that other players have there own beliefs as to what eve is about, but I have my own. And I believe my values are more important to my personal enjoyment than what another player may believe. So while others may say, "get over it" "boohoo", I do understand where the are coming from. I didn't join an npc corp because I could handle pvp, I joined it because eve's pvp isn't as important to me.

I don't really know how to explain it ebtter than that. But hopefully there is at least enough insight to to understand my position.