EVE General Discussion

With the recent super size 4000 man fleet battle in fountain. A battle so large it was mentioned on the BBC tech news with a stock picture of the what a fleet battle looks and not the actual pic since it would be completely confusing to a non EVE player.

I have to ask will this war affect me the man in empire/high sec or anything else for that matter? If yes, in what way? And if no, then why not? My guess it will not.

On a "lore scale size" this invasion and conquest of TEST space, this would be as if the Caldari would invade and conquer half of Gallente space, same with Amarr and Minmatar. Which would radically change how everything works.

If change is coming from this conquest and therefore Goons are a positive force like liberators then should we see the benefits? If they are hostile and oppressors, should things get worse? For everyone? I'd like to add, we as in "we capsuleers", are becoming so powerful should lore wise the empire leaders be considering us as enemies?

I'm all for player created content like what's going on. I find it fascinating and one of the aspects of EVE that initially made me want to start play this as far back as late 2009. Personally i'd be more bothered if it didn't affect us. Because living the solo life as i do i can't live in null sec and hope to stay alive, let alone do anything worthwhile. It's not like story elements and live events are doing much.

I'd like to see a Dev reply to this, as i'm curious of what's really down the line. Things seem very, for lack of a better word "hollow" with EVE happenings lately.

Not empty quoting.

For real it means nothing if you never leave hi sec....unless you supply doctrine ships.

Vindicators are about to get cheaper I guess.

No!

Immediate changes would most likely be in the form of market items, availability, price etc.

Lore-wise, unless they do something truly significant (that has not been done before), nothing much will change.

It is much like the amarr/minmatar conflict, just like the minmatar are former slaves of the amarr empire, so is TEST former slaver of the CFC.

CFC was just a little quicker and more efficient in dealing with their rebel scum, when compared to the amarr, but don't worry at some point the amarr will bring out the slave drivers cain and put the chain back on the minmatar, and all will be as it should be.

TEST Slaves Please Ignore on the market soon™?

The forever whine about us over the last 2 years contridicts you.

You're affected.

The beauty of eve is like an hour glass, you turn it upside, ALL the sand will fall.

1 ship is destroyed? there was a higher demand for minerals in an area to create a new one, thus the market raised by 0.01isk
4k players go and buy new ships all at once? Its going to affect you even in high sec.

Now whether this is a game breaking disaster for you or a market price increase of 0.01 isk, its debatable.

lets look at this in reverse, and see how your affecting eve. you do missions for 1 week & have 50 meta 4 arbi cruise launchers, you place them on the market, 1000isk then lowest sell, the other traders don't want to wait, so they under cut you, the sales drop by 10%, YOU had an impact on that market whether or not you know it. YOU influenced other peoples game play ( the people that bought it & the other traders )

Why am i posting the above? because most people fail to see what the butterfly effect truly is. every action you make, affects others, now if that's warping a cap ship into the wrong place by accident and causing a 6 month chain of events that leads to a 4k person fleet brawl, or if its running missions and having a influence of the market in your region by 0.00000000001 isk, it doesn't matter.

So to answer your questions :
yes it has an effect and thus brings a change.
how much? only CCP knows.
Things seem "hallow" because you lack the imagination to think of the impacts of what every aspect of game play has on others. open your eyes my friend! its a wonderful game :)

There's a interesting, more general take on whether the CFC-versus-TEST war has larger implications (although not, admittedly, for those with no interest in null sec) at Fiddler's Edge.