EVE General Discussion

The trick is to not let the whole null > low > high thing bother you. Play the game you want to play and ignore what everybody tells you on how you should be playing it.

The issue is everybody has their twisted idea what the game should be. Then make the mistake of sharing that twisted idea on the forums.

That's part of that "cold harsh universe" from Eve ads. And as in all ads that too is only half true at best. At the end of a day we all just wanna hug and hot cocoa.

That polarity exists in the real world too.

Partly I think it's media training.

Thoughtful media is boring media.

Divisive, emotional media is more fun, or as marketers call it, engaging.

So we've become used to that sort of style of thinking and debate.

There are probably other reasons but that would be too thoughtful to explore.

So stop being so wishy washy, grab an opinion and hold onto it for dear life!

Yell it in people's faces and maybe we can all make the newscast on the billboard outside.

Nothing wrong with playing however you want to play just as long as you don't scream and shout for game breaking mechanic changes to facilitate your play style.

Say, you wanted to mine in 0.0 in a cruiser and not get hassled by NPC or other players.

Getting CCP to change the game to facilitate this would be oh so very wrong.

Play how you want, just don't cry when you do things badly and lose.

the entire argument is just a result of the fact that the game is a sandbox and no single feature can be considered in isolation, knock on effects to other areas of the game must be considered and hence where people come up with these "issues" against play styles, be they imaginary or real.

Contrary to popular "bad" translation few actually make this A vs. B argument. The majority are irritated that A mechanics are changed which affect B play style. The short sited nature historically of CCP's patching is really the root cause. They are getting better however and I think in big part thanks to a barage of overly opinionated players who engage in conversation combat on the forums and various other places of discussion.

Suffice to say if there is one truth to the argument is that play style A always negatively impacts play style B and vice versus regardless of what A and B represents. By design, there is nothing you can do in Eve without screwing someone in someway wether directly or indirectly, more often than not regardless of whether they are even aware or not that they got screwed. Something as simple as a bunch of newbies mining in high sec can have a direct impact on Null Sec warefare when you follow the various domino effects that ripple through the game. Simply by undocking, your screwing someone over and as such the vary nature of Eve is conflict and this spills out into discussions, in game politics and CCP development decesions about how to change the game.

Its a pretty complex system when you put it under a microscope.

And sometimes it just boils down to a lot of while about the grass being greener on the other side.

If you read any forums for any game, you will always find people against other people's views. Conflict is a part of human nature im afraid.

It's a stupid sort of argument imagined by carebears; it doesn't really exist. No one is "passionately against you", but they may have valid reasons to propose a nerf to features you use (for instance, a belief that high-sec is way too good for the risks you encounter there.)

It isn't those of us that want to mine without being F'd with that come to the boards demanding the game be changed to fit our playstyle. What I see are the people demanding the removal of NPC corps so that anyone can be wardec'ed at any time, the nerfing of high sec to force people out from under CONCORD protection, demanding the removal of local, demanding...., demanding... demanding...

I think the game has a great rule set right now, that allows people to be messed with, anywhere, anytime, but in most places that "messing with" is limited without consequences.