EVE General Discussion

Nope I hope the nodes stay active and the battle finishes either way. All the big nodes in highsec should be on reserve for nullsec battles. Enjoy mission running in 10% TiDi.

SoE and thukker are outliers, but not by very much, have you seen the Lp conversion rates on some of those corps with industrial implants, OMG.

Adding rewards to low and null incursions won't change anything. low and null incursion rewards would have to be totally unbalanced to get people to do them to a lvl that beats being able to do them in priate BSs in high sec (no one is gonna risk machs and vindis in non-high sec incursions.

Thing is, if you buff their rewards enough to compete with high sec incursions even after ship losses to pvp, all that means is that some alliance is going to come in, lock down the incursion constellation by force and farm it much like FW is farmed. It would literally do nothing but make the rich richer lol. I don't think there is any hope for non-high incursions.

I'd fix high sec incursions by making them unfarmable (ie, MOM pops up, all other sites stop paying out) and i would balance this by making high sec incursions instantly spawn somewhere else. Of course the incursion communities would have to adopt the beeny hill chase theme as there own, but what can you do lol.

The fix for SoE and thukker is simple, up the LP cost of everything in their LP stores like the ships are ie cheaper to get the stuff outside of high sec but still available in high sec. There is no reason a Sisters core probe should cost the same in LP in Lanngisi as it does in X-7.

Another thing I'd do is take null anomalies out of the upgrade system and replace them with some kind of mission agent with new null sec only LP stores (I dunno, minmatar station = minmatar agent of some kind, and if it's not a station system make the agent be at a beacon in space like cosmos agents are). Tying isk spewing anomalies to a military upgrade system they were not meant for was a mistake on CCPs part in Dominion IMO.

i dunno, not a game designer so all those could be crap ideas. What i do know is that the current combat pve system in EVE (outside of wormhole space) sucks and is like some kind of dysfunctional patchwork mess.

Good thing that'll never happen. Enjoy your turkey shoot~

And again, post only to attack someone without any contribution to the topic.

if I am a high sec pubbie, what's it matter? I'm keeping eve online valid by logging in and enjoying internet space ships.

Do some market research and realise EvE isn't in a very secure position in the MMO scene, the last expansion and live event didn't generate much buzz, dust 514 is considered, by raw numbers as a f2p console fps, a failure in investment and profitability, and radical changes (for positive or negative to your playstyle) are going to happen. Or eve will just to continue to limp on. 10yrs, but in decline, a very slow one but still predictive models show over the next year. I did a whole post on it like 3 pages ago. Loom outside of eve and realise only a small number of people Enjoy the very niche gameplay that is eve. And only a slice of that pie even cares to try null sec.

Animosity doing its role. I've been a casual eve player since launch. Seen the stars. Seen the stars get a resolution update.
I'm not important. Just someone who enjoys my cake. Please stop trying to force me to enjoy your slice of cake

That wasn't a personal attack it was using data to prove something. You whined and said I showed no proof then you literally described yourself as the definition of a highsec pubbie. You also complained that others were biased because they were from nullsec so I pointed out you were biased since you came from highsec.

Highsec pubbies can safely be ignored because they don't do anything that gets the game recognized outside of its own community, they don't generate exposure or content. Two things the game needs to grow, people need to know it exists and have a desire to play.

Examples:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304887104579306663398628476
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/06/21/real-economist-takes-lessons-from-virtual-world/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/arts/07eve.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/07/09/eve-online-player-loses-a-spaceship-worth-approximately-9000/

None of those show a highsec person creating content or doing something so amazing that it attracts the attention of a national news organization.

Now you're trying to do the but, but, but, highsec subscriptions are > than the rest of the game so highsec should be coddled. Which isn't true and you can't back it up because CCP hasn't given us the data or a meaningful way to quantify who counts as a X sec subscription.

This isn't to say casuals should not be considered but, it is saying a specific group of loud risk averse highsec pubbies should be ignored and game balance should have nothing to do with them. Hence its time for highsec reward to be decreased or risk to be increased.

CCP has historically made mistakes look at Incarna and look what it took for them to admit that mistake. We've historically pointed out horrible parts of the game and when required abused them to the point they have to be changed; the best extemporaneous example I have of this is technetium. This is all in the process of pointing out a problem and getting it solved.

Highsec pubbies want to defend their horrible imbalance to the detriment of the game, which looks like what you're doing.

None of the articles are highsec specific.

They are not highsec specific meaning they arise from the areas that are not broken or imbalanced. If highsec were fixed I'm sure we'd see stories coming out of highsec.

E: They do need to be highsec specific because that would show highsec is contributing content and awareness to the game.

Would we? Most of the ideas for fixing it seem related directly to simply reducing content or income for under the goal of spreading pilots elsewhere. Essentially trying to reduce it to a deadzone and/or true de facto new player only space. That's not going to generate stories there.

Though, if your suggesting this go another direction, I'd love to hear it.

I like this guy...he is Eve version of JOE the plumber.