EVE General Discussion

Also the odds of any given university actually calling their introductory classes "101" is pretty low

Hi guys:

I'm going to claim that 1 + 1 = 3

Then when you ask me if I ever passed kindergarten, I will act with indignation and accuse you of bragging that you passed kindergarten.

You missed a certain lulzy tear-inducing event a couple weeks ago where a horde of bears tried to invade CFC space straight through the main pipe, all led by what was probably Hilmar's 8-year-old nephew.

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The thought of their golden goose being nerfed is probably quite upsetting.

people typically have that sort of feeling after being chained to the water heater

Look:

The low prices of basic T1 ships/modules and honestly just ships/mods in general, especially so to new subscribers, which is what will keep EVE alive and relevant. Saying you don't want new players is like saying you want the game to die, so I hope nobody says that.

These ships and modules are generated by the industrial type people, a boring job from my perspective but some find it rewarding.

Any hindrance to their ability to produce stuff raises the value of the produced goods and therefore the amount of time required to acquire them...Unless they can "overcome" the hindrance, in which case it wouldn't be a hindrance at all.

It can be somewhat shaky because people can switch roles because of incentives. If all of the sudden production is competitive (higher reward due to increased hindrance), perhaps more people compete to be industrialists and miners, thus equalizing the cost.

But then we have the situation where we are drawing people away from PvP (what I consider to be the fun stuff) and more into boring **** like shooting rocks.

If you want to nerf highsec, fine, but then you would also HAVE to buff nullsec or lowsec, or both. If you just nerfed highsec, all you do is effectively increase the barrier of entry into the game (by increasing the price of goods across the board).

Industry should be efficient. A high amount of wealth in the game keeps prices down and keeps people exploding ships and not worrying too much about it. That's great.

I don't give a crap where the industry comes from in particular. Nullsec, highsec, whatever. It makes no difference to me. As long as it's there, functioning, efficiently, and ideally not requiring too much of the playerbase to feel like all they do is grind repetitive crap over and over.

I wouldn't even try to draw my friends in at that point. "Hey man, want to shoot rocks over and over and over and over?" The response would be NO.

more like, any reasonable discussion on the topic has already been had long ago, and when ignorant-oppositional-highsec-forum-alt-number-two-hundred pops up with false presumptions demanding everything be explained and argued point by point yet again it's not worth engaging them. their opinion doesn't matter, and another npc alt hydra's head will appear three pages on demanding the same anyway

Typical inflationist highsec argument.

The free farming of isk is precisely what causes inflationary pricing, that puts things out of reach of newbies.

I know the solution.

Highsec's risk/isk ratio is out of whack, because the intended risk in highsec has not been present for a long time.

That being, wardecs. They can be dodged too easily, to the effect that anyone can if they so choose be immune to any non suicidal form of PvP. Which means they are free to farm their little hearts out.

But start slapping a couple of 30 day killrights on people who drop corp during a wardec, and I betcha that **** stops real quick. That, or let us wardec NPC corps in exchange for being locked out of their stations.

Anything else lets people virtually eliminate the prospect of loss, and all they do is gain and gain, and get fatter and fatter while contributing nothing else to the world at large.

And that's why inflation. And inflation is why the barrier to entry.