EVE General Discussion

i chuckled.

The tears would be wonderful were this to change.

ah yeah... you're the sort that defends a monopoly.

in regard to Eve: Personally I don't care about renting. For the game I guess less renting would be better as it seems this could lead to more competition.

in regard to the poor: it depends. To me a system where the poor cannot afford to see a doctor is by definition broken. Fortunately, I live in a very liberal (not the american meaning...) country where we're free to capitalism and see a doctor nonetheless. So, there are different views on when a system is broken. To me the breaking starts when there is just a tiny chance left for a poor to live the American dream.

which means in regard to Eve: when there's basically no chance for a small entitiy to grow independently of current super powers. As that currently still seems feasible...

Even with Kronos which the industry half was "delayed" and will be the first min-expansion patch (lol) I don't think we get enough for a 6 month expansion. I dont think it is an expansion in the sense of what other games get. A couple new ships and a re-do of a bunch of others? Other games get those weekly or bi-weekly, not every 6 months and say "hey, heres an expansion"

A couple mods for haulers?

Supers limited to 10 drones...

Lowsec stuff.

I dont think its an expansion..

And before you ppl say "its free", CCP thought LONG AGO when they first made new eden that expansions were going to be free, because its obviously a marketing ploy. You can't have eve as it is and charge for content. What would they have resorted to? Locking people out of gates? Limit on sp? Who knows cause it didn't happen. FREE EXPANSIONS! EVEN IF THEY ARE BROKEN! Remember the planetary interaction debacle? I mean, how did that fall under the radar and make it through testing? Inside job, thats how. Its obvious. Only fanbois wont admit or those in on it.

And before you say leave, already cancelled. gonna take my years sub and just go fund elite. And no, no stuff to give. already trashed it. Wont biomass though, game might actually be better at the end of their "5 year plan" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then you think wrong lol. Just because an expansion doesn't give YOU 10 million new things doesn't make it not an expansion.

A whole new 'pirate' faction is (in and of it's self) enough to call it an expansion. There are so many game changing things in Kronos it's not even funny, like the 1st ever Covert Cloaky mining ship, new pve content, incredible changes to faction warfare, new ship models, a whole sale change to Freighters and change to the amounts of certain wormholes and where they go ect ect.

I sometimes think that Jesus could fly out of heaven (with a jetpack, wings are so 20th century), land and some of you people's houses and personally hand you blueprints to cold fusion reactors and inter-dimensional jump drives and you'd still be all like "is that all???".........

Please detail 1 single buff to null in the last 18 months. Thanks in advance.

You do realise that what you suggest will make it even harder for the smaller alliances to hold Sov don't you?

With your idea those with more will come out on top and will be even more entrenched.

Larger alliances/coalitions will always have superiority. Making it harder for these coalitions and large alliances to power project, the better it is for smaller/new alliances.

Just make a partially activity related sov already CCP (need mechanisms to attack and defend, so not fully activity related)

Watch entire regions drop sov as GSF, PL and all the other over stretched entities can't hold onto it, so that new players can get into 0.0.

If CCP fucks up sov again and allows the status quo to survive (Ie. 5000 man alliances owning several regions despite not actually living there) then 0.0 is ****** and there's no reason to stay there.

This is in reply solely to the OP, and not to any posts past that point which I haven't had the chance read yet. I wanted to post a reply that dealt solely with his point of view first, since I think he shares that point of view with a lot of people, and that this view is a big part of the problem.

Do you know how you can do something about this? You get up(well, sit down at your computer actually), and start working towards it. Before you even start, you might fail. If this happens, you try again. You might fail, a lot, before things start rolling but the important thing is that you have clearly defined goals and you keep working towards them. At this point, you may start to succeed and then something happens. You're betrayed by someone you thought was a friend, or you lose a decisive battle and have to back track, giving up all or most of the gains you'd made.

You see, right there is where everybody thinks it's over. This is "game over" for so many people, it's the end, the fall of your dynasty, and because they fear that this is going to happen, they never play to begin with. They never start the journey because they're afraid it's going to end early. But, there's a way to prevent this from being the end, and it's really simple. You don't let it be. You tactically retreat, you drop Sov instead of letting them grind it, keeping them busy with claiming and securing the systems you just "gave" them, and then you hit in them from behind. That Amarr Control Tower they're bringing in to start mining moon goo again? Blow it up before it gets there. The fuel they're bringing with it? Blow that up to. The important thing here is to make their lives miserable and to give your members the moral boost they need after being beaten. From here, it's either up and up, or down and out. That's the choice you'll be faced with.

The reality, however, is that most people will never get to that point. From my time in this game I have met many people that just simple say, "It can't be done." Their attitude is that because they don't have as many Titans as the CFC, they shouldn't even bother trying. The funny thing is, this is exactly what the coalitions want. They want you not to try, because if you don't ever try, they can never lose. So how about you try? Start now, building your network of friends(and enemies), making connections with others, running fleets with them, set up a TS3 or Mumble server for you guys. These connections will be the foundation for starting a corporation that can grow into something great. It's going to take a long time, and it's going to be hard work, but if it's what you want, it'll be worth it.

If you think this can't be done, that nobody can carve out Sov without bowing to one of the current super coalitions, then maybe you should go have a chat with the HERO Coalition and the Brave Collective, who have been carving out a nice little piece of the pie for themselves lately. They've succeeded because they want to. They have decided upon goals and they're pursuing them as we speak. They're losing ships right now, and not letting it destroy them. They're winning right now, and yet not becoming arrogant. One day, OP, if your attitude doesn't change you may be on these very forums linking a webpage that shows how the Brave Collective's rental alliance(let's call them the Sorta Brave Associates) controls all of the South.