EVE General Discussion

Shorter cooldown like 1minute and able to switch to aeo if necessary.

As ****** up logic as it is i laughed pretty good.

So obviously you don't understand what balance actually means.

EVE is not an RTS.

Actually from a battle viewpoint, it is exactly that.

True, it's not an "RTS" in the sense of a traditional game, but from a balance perspective it can be (and is) approached in exactly the same way by CCP.

You're just going to have to deal with it.

If you aren't willing to put the same level of assets on the field -- expect to be crushed -- and expect to be laughed at by the community when you claim it's because of "imbalance."

I guess from a certain perspective the CFC whining is proper. It isn't "balanced" when the other team has a fleet that is 10x more valuable.....But that's an imbalance of infrastructure, resources, and experience, not an imbalance of ships within their brackets. That is the difference.

There may be imbalance, but if there is, CFC has done a **** poor job of showing it.

When CFC kicked off TEST from Fountain everything was balanced. But when goons lost a few dreads EVE suddenly became *unbalanced*.

Shall we expect hotfix from CCP nerfing slowcats?

TEST in its current state would not add much to the war. Everyone who was anyone left that boat.

For those claiming cfc didnt try and crash the node

Yes very fake, if you want have ccp check thier logs they will confirm this was said in fleet.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1t3375/dy_goonfleet_loggs_352am/

Do you know what server stress is? Or how servers work at all?

You see, kids, if this game was truly the festering cauldron of PVP that everybody going "grrr highsec income" says it should be, then RESOURCES (metal for example) would be FINITE to such measure that building supers and caps galore would cause entire regions to run dry eventually.

(and then the only resource is salvage and anything that can be discovered)


All of this "this is Eve, HTFU, it's a PVP game. grrr grrr go back to WoW" crap is meaningless so long as resources respawn.


Back in the days of Yor for example, the greatsword was the counter to warhorses. Ever fight with a horse? A 1 ton warhorse? How about someone on that horse trying to kill you?

Hard. I've had to deal with a PO'ed girlfriend on a half ton horse that can pin people on command let me tell you being charged even by a pony is no fun.

But...

the greatswords... they can really mess up a warhorse. Even if the heavy horse and rider can win.

But it takes a LOT of resources to breed, raise, and train that horse. The rider too. This was a very limited and expensive resource.

You cannot just throw cavalry at the front lines. (hint hint)

So, this was a LIMITED resource meaning that if the counter is just a couple of yards of steel, very cheap in comparison, it was effective because it made commanders have to think twice. It was not a matter of "just keep blobbing until you win" because eventually you'd be out of cavalry and broke too.

So Eve Online... well... the rocks respawn and the moons just keep spewing the goo and the alliances can just keep churning out these ships the size of Manhatten.

People speak of content, and OP, and nerfs, when all the game needs is to have FINITE resources such that these days of super blobs would be seen as a titanic era, but then come the "salvage wars" as people, post the end of the world super blob wars where the kings took out entire forests for armadas (Lebanon for example), and now nothing but the dead hulls - to fight over for the metal.

But those who played it smart would still have them.

Those who thought twice. (Thinking once is a huge challenge for 21st century humans, it seems).


All of this would be moot, and the game would be everything the e-Peeners insist that it is, if all of these resources were finite. All conflict in our history is about resources.