EVE General Discussion

the heroic story of one aspie, his delusions of grandeur, and his failed attempts at relevancy that ended in the bitter defeat of clutching the killmails of newbie ship cynos as his one success in eve: the harry forever story

sure thing, but they could make much more out of it... one mentioned it here: "where was the love..."

the excitment about it did not come accross well, it was just like here we got 4000 ships... the story around bad bobby for example was much more interesting, it also had big numbers in it, but still much more story content... it had personality

I think some people are concentrating too much on big numbers only... the war was just a supersize menu but not good cooking

Can't join blob alliances because:
a) Too many work and family commitments. Unpredictable ones, too. Can't commit to spending uninterrupted hours in fleet (waiting for form-up, getting to destination, having camp-outs at gates, etc. etc.)
b) In a bureaucracy in RL, don't want to be in one ingame-- unless I'm at the very top of it!
c) Bad bladder. Need frequent bio breaks, big fleets leave me behind.
d) Cat aggro. Dog too, recently.
e) Being on voice comms interferes with running my mp3 playlist.
f) Running around as a neut solo in SOV space is too fun!

But mainly a) and f).

How much does a newbie ship cyno cost? Is it just the cost of the cyno module (you're already spent the LO by the time it dies I would assume).

And still he's doing more than 90% of the game,
even if he's just trying.

That may or may be not more than you actually ever achieved ...

Sunbathing in the light of successes of a group is for weaklings, so these don't count.

that's "technetium lord weaselior, sir" to you

if you think either of those two things you're pretty hopeless

Why do you have the feeling you need to get known with internet e-peens and showoffs to have the feeling you have accomplish something worth of any attention?
The best players I know atm don't even post on GD or F&I for what its worth or probably with an alt, they're not searching whoever attention for what is worth of pixels or their admiration.

Thanks to the ceaseless effort of forum warriors, a lot of people think those things. That's why there are more carebears in nullsec than highsec. That's why the so-called "pirates" are highsec hugging greifers preying on low-hanging fruit and noob harvesting for even they have been tricked by the Great Lie.

The real potential for loot, butthurt, and lols is in nullsec, in your territory, using your ships for target practice.

Nothing personal. This is a PVP game and a sandbox after all. Myself, Harry, and others, are trying to convince people that nullsec is not this no-mans land that requires fealty to an alliance just to gain entry.

Yeah I know, go to NPC nullsec. Well, we don't want to. In fact the Russians who live out there don't come to highsec ganking industrials and freighters complaining about how other people play. Some of those Russians help us.

Wormholes? Too quiet. They are good for getting past the intel channels though.


So what have we found? We find that while people complain about all that carebearing in highsec, nullsec only boosts its numbers by selling the same carebearing potential to players in nullsec. Yes there are hardcore PVPers who can be in fleet 23/7 ready to gank at a moments notice, and most of them are running highsec incursion alts.


But there is something I can agree with whenever we see the usual complaints about highsec.

I too would love to see all carebearing end in highsec. I would love to see everybody in highsec doing what Harry and company, these "wolves" I like to call them, going to nullsec. Highsec is the perfect jumpoff point.

And simply just doing it is the key. Everybody is so stuck in that box, the "you have to join an alliance or you won't make iSK" routine, most of the security of nullsec consists of just that. If even 5000 noobs or alts started going to nullsec and preying upon targets, nullsec would no longer be the stripmalled paved over corporate park that the neckbeards have drama'ed it into.

It would be a festering hellhole of PVP. And in that cauldron would emerge true tacticians, worst enemies and best friends. A lot of people blame highsec for everything that they say Eve lacks, but complaining to CCP for nerfs and boosts is pointless. They already gave everybody the tools they need. People just have to stop believing in these lies.

Goons are not as all powerful as people think. Clearly the mittani's Last Mistake in Fountain showed our weakness.

That and you might be better served linking ratting carrier killmails off the VFK beacon, really.