EVE General Discussion

Of course? theres so many 0.0 players bitching about empire and why? why would 0.0 ***** about empire...

1. You have everything playable that empire has.

2. You have 5-10 plexs, empire only goes to 4

3. You have ABC empire don't

4. You have Ice belts the same as empire.

5, you can mission run, incursions etc.

Yet you lot still continue to ***** about empire. The biggest player base are empire players, fact is fact. CCP will not take everything out of empire to push us into 0.0.

The only reason why you players ***** is that truthfully, solo pvp is dead. Its a blobfest anywhere you go. You want more people to kill. Truth is truth.

The ONLY things worth anything in 0.0 is Tech and officer/faction rats. I can't think of anything else at all and yes my alt lives in 0.0.

If anybody belongs to an alliance like this they are p dumb. You don't have to join up with the first crappy corp that spams something in the Recruitment channel...look around and find one that doesn't treat their members like slaves.

I think this winter expansion will be very important for CCP, 2011 hasn't been the best year for them, they lost so many subscribers and players faith in them. Now granted, they can't please everyone with anything they do. Someone will always complain. I know so many are waiting on the winter expansion and if it is like incarna, they will most likely lose more people, then with Incarna.

I know in my mind on what I would love to see CCP do to make this game better, as all of us have ideas on what we feel would make the game better. All they can try to do is appease as many people as they can. Though I do wish they would listen to the player base more, seems everything they try to do to make the game better in their minds kinda backfires on them

We don't have a dot in our name so your friends are dumb.

Im sorry is this a rumor thread? I havent seen any stances from CCP about incursion nerfs.

What has mommy told you about playing with yourself. That's what you'll be doing.

Let's try this again. The forums ate my first post...

Over the past few years I've flown almost entirely as a small gang and solo pvper in null/lowsec and in my honest opinion there has never been a time when null has been in more need of something being done to refresh it. When I began the game nullsec was a fluid environement, with constant territorial conflict small and large scale fights and a genuine feeling that things could change at any moment in the political landscape (see goons vs BOB). Over the past year or so things have just become a little stagnant.

I'm not one to complain about the effects without understanding the cause. The honest truth is that currently highsec is more fun to be in, has more social interaction and is probably more dangerous than most of null - so why leave? As an example I recently flew an unscouted battlecruiser through 7 hostile nullsec regions looking for fights and came home without a fight to my name... not even a blob. This does not marry up with the general highsec player's view that null is cold, harsh and dangerous - which it should be.

Is nerfing highsec the answer to returning null to its glory days? Probably not. Moving things out of highsec will just **** off the existing highsec playerbase and lacks a bit of creativity. Players need a carrot and not a stick change their gameplay. They need the promise of unique, exciting and accessible gameplay that is not available anywhere else whilst fixing the mechanics which have caused null to stagnate. Furthermore players need to feel that null is accessible for the smaller corp or fledgling alliance - something CCP has committed to do (but seeing is believing).

Personally I have never had more fun than participating in nullsec activities. Be it that adrenaline rush before you enter a fight where you have no idea who will be the victor, or the brown trouser moment where you're in a plex and your overview fills up with neutrals... but all of these require residents in null for that to happen. CCP need to start the virtuous circle of getting people to want to come to null by making it somewhere which fun and unique.

The only problem is that I don't know what that inspiring piece of gameplay is ...

Adel

0.0 drives what makes EVE great: great conflicts and the like, that attract people to the game

however, due to a number of botched ccp decisions, it's not actually worth being in 0.0; there is no carrot to emerge from empire to try to make your way in 0.0 and challenge the big boys

goonswarm, almost half a decade ago, became the driver of EVE's conflict and virtually everything interesting about 0.0 in EVE has involved goonswarm, because goonswarm was a disruptive force that shattered the old empires of eve and allowed a significant influx of new players into 0.0: raw newbies, rather than a new alliance made up of vet 0.0 people

there is currently no reason for the next goonswarm to exist and begin a drive into 0.0 to shake things up. This is besides the problem it's impossible thanks to another number of botched CCP decisions that make it so much harder for newbies to challenge the defending superpowers. the failure of 0.0 to provide a real benefit to members of alliances means why the hell should new people enter? the drive to capture space is the drive to capture moons, which benefit the alliance only (or the alliance leaders), but the common goon can't make all that much more money from ratting, mining, or any of the casual isk making things than he could mission-running in empire. how does the next newbie alliance looking to break into 0.0 manage to convince enough people its worth it?

also obviously you need to fix the horrible newbie-unfriendly and unfun sov mechanics: bring back tower warfare on planets just don't make them fueled, so contesting sov is a tug-of-war rather than pushing a rock up a hill

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Yes, I have a first job thanks very much, I dont want to have to PAY to "play" at a second one.



lol ignorance is bliss I guess
Have you ever seen these guys in any other games? Do you know what they pretty much only join games to do? Break them.
Here is no different