EVE General Discussion

Actually that's not true; this has been suggested multiple times over the years...including a recent request. Like Obama-care, it's not a good idea but that doesn't mean some small segment of the population doesn't like it ...or that there aren't others who would play that way if forced to.

It was the last day before the game left beta and went officially public.

May the powers of knowledge and google be with you ... or, you know, just stay as you are.

one word... HILARIOUS.

Complete shitstorm for whoever ends up answering the "Customer Service" phone at CCP though.

Sure would be nice to have another one of those.

Well I don't know if it would be as bad as the OP states. Maybe for Jita for a while anyway.

But one bad thing would start. Noobs would be getting swooped down on the moment they undock. And the people doing it are going to think that makes them good at PVP or something. I don't know what part of this I would be more ashamed of.


I have the skills and experience to survive but over that display of smells-like-underwear neckbeardery I would quit. Eve online getting reduced to one of those games where people who will gank noobs and have nothing better to do all day and the moment you start playing you are being swarmed (plus the "ha ha GBTW NOOB! We're so leet!") is not something to be proud of. It's bad enough we already have these people around.

One thing that gets overlooked these days is how CCP is obviously trying to blur the lines between highsec and beyond. The expansion is called "Rubicon". Rubicon is often referred to as a measure of crossing a line, and not being able to go back. The theme of this has involved the rise of the sovereign power of the capsuleer and the diminishing power of the empires.

Would it have made much sense if the expansion was called "we're going to blur the lines a little bit. Work with us here folks" ?

Just look at what new modules and deployables have wrought.


I think a day is going to come when the only way to stay out of PVP in highsec is to not do much of anything beyond the present status quo. Such that if you run a mission the olde way you won't get in trouble but once people start boasting about how many gajillions of ISK they make per hour using an MTU (which can be shot openly - a blurred line right there)people will have to make a choice: make so much ISK per hour without one, or take the risk of using one.

That with drone aggro is a stab at semi-afk mission running. And what was the number one complaint of the bitter nullseccer about highsec mission running?

The trend certainly looks that way, that if you want to run a mission in a few years and make more ISK than you do now, you will have to take additional risks, but if you don't want to take them you make the same then as you do now (maybe even less - who knows - how about that deployable in nullsec that takes your ISK that anyone can rob?)


But I don't think the calls of bored bubble campers to somehow get their orgy of gleeful ganking and kills is ever going to happen.

Quite easy to figure what would happend. 80% of the players would stop playing instantly and CCP could shut down the server due to extreme low playercounts.

Hey, 80% less server load... finally, an end to STOOOOOOOOOPID TiDi migration halfway across gamespace and into EMPTY systems where I'm conducting a nude sunbathing Op.

Get OFF MY BEACH, maggots !!

Thing is, Jarod? They've set themselves against us in the most personal way. They've set conditions whereby their "fun" is mutually exclusive with ours. They've long since abandoned "live and let live" as far as it goes in the game. What's worse, they repeatedly state that there can't be a happy medium, and they keep trying to force CCP to choose between the two groups.

If they get their way, you and I, and all of our ilk, won't be able to play the game.

So my attitude is, **** 'em.

link a thread that's not a troll or hyperbole

I'd honestly probably just unsub.

it would make the game a lot less accessible to those of us that don't want to join a 0.0 alliance and constantly get bothered by pings for fleets we don't want to join, and have to have an extra 30 chat tabs open to figure out if there's a camp on the other side of every gate...

simply too much hassle for me to put up with for something that's meant to be fun.