EVE General Discussion

No. Stop. First paragraph.

Highsec uses pocos, and npc null uses pocos and so does lowsec.

Everyone uses pocos.

Shoot cynoships

This tbh, POCOs actually provide a very large proportion of our day to day income and we're pretty much exclusively a lowsec alliance.

Its not so much that equating all structures to POCOs is wrong, its that people*cough infinityziona cough* do it while very obviously having no idea about how POCOs work or about how they affect the people who use them.

Yes I can. I can simply choose another one. Or attack it AFTER it has come out of RF mode.

I am not forced to do any one specific thing in this game.

Maybe it should if you are a ~small alliance~

Yes, they do, and I skipped them because I actually don't have much experience in living in lowsec/hisec. Most of my time I've spent in null, spare for occasional slumming around in wormholes.

Using common sense, such change wouldn't affect hisec much since logistics-wise it's easy to replace things - not sure cost-wise. In lowsec it'll hit the "little guy" more than the big one.

In any way, I just dropped it as an example of how such a change would affect something else more than the intended target.

Hmm, you see

Dirty blobber

POCOs were an example only. I don't really care about them. As I stated I am not here asking for changes I am saying something is wrong here. Any changes would have to be brainstormed, tested, evaluated by CCP.

What I am saying is there is too much reliance on CCP in NULLSEC. I have said nothing about low - quite likely the most dangerous space in EvE.

If you're trying to support your arguement do it with things you actually know something about then, would save you from looking like a complete idiot. You might also want to avoid mindlessly saying 'THINGS ARE WRONG!!111!!!' with no evidence to back it up and no suggestions as to how the wrong things could be fixed, this also makes you appear like a complete idiot.

All I've seen from you so far is an endless parade of shifting goalposts, ignoring evidence when it contradicts your views and a complete unwillingess to listen to anyone who doesnt support you one hundred percent. I hate to belabour the point but this also makes you look a complete idiot.

so far you're 0 for 3, care to try again?

EDIT - Also what Lucas said in post 496.

And how does not playing for three years qualify you as someone who knows what they're talking about.

No, the purpose of this thread had nothing to do with blob vs solo or balance. For the record, I'm not an elite pvper by any means, but I've got solo kills AND blob kills. I've got kills where my ship was bigger than my target, smaller than my target, and I've killed targets that are unable to fight back. PVP = player vs player, that's its only defining factor, and it's not exclusive to combat. Where combat is concerned, how a kill is achieved does not define PVP, and as far as I'm concerned, a kill is a kill. The better player will win, even if he's using tactics that make the match one-sided. The fact that he's using those tactics is what makes him better, because it's a demonstration on how to utilise the sandbox.

I've been blobbed by Nulli, just recently coming through Akori. Lost a nice Comet there, but hell, that's EVE. I also just went out in an Enyo and popped a newb in a Venture. My last corp had a war with Marmite, and we went after a bait geddon knowing that it was bait. We did a LOT of damage, but then Marmite's fleet showed up and primaried my Brutix after dispatching our Falcon very quickly. It was only later that I realised after watching the playback from fraps that if I'd been overheating my guns, we would have killed the geddon. As it was, our small gang had stripped his armour, just as two logi showed up. Do you know why I'm not complaining? Because I learned something.

A few months ago, before I became incredibly unwell and had to take some time off everything, I beat a Caracal in a Talwar. Lately, I've been making my killboard look good, but for the first year that I played this game, my killboard was BAD. All losses, no kills, not until I started to LEARN. Now, if you look it up on Battleclinic, my wins almost match my losses (30-32), and my win points are higher than my loss points (although, I'm still down on the isk side of things by about .06bil i think, but that won't take long to fix). And I haven't been podded in a very, very long time.

If you're not winning fights, it's not because the game is unbalanced. It's because you're not as good as the player(s) who beat you, and you have to LEARN more to get better. And I'm telling you as someone that learned PVP mostly by losing a lot, and learning what not to do.

Is there an imbalance in EVE? As far as the tools of the sandbox are concerned, sure, there are still a few little imbalances here and there. But player created imbalance can be countered by player created imbalance, because the same tools are available for everyone. It's up to each and every player to understand the risks of the activities they choose to participate in, mitigate them accordingly, and learn from their mistakes, because CCP aren't going to hold your hand just because you decide to try and fly through Rancer all by yourself and (shock horror!) get blobbed.