EVE General Discussion

Easy solution: Give freighter guns and high slots with appropriate pg/cpu. Problem solved.

This is tough, how many times do i need to says its a lot easier today to not feel the consequence. gank someone in high sec 5 years ago and you're out in null sec ratting for 5 days to make the isk back, now you run incursions, run a few level 5's in a carrier that you can also afford. If anything Gankers are just as guilty at being lazy. It's nothing to do with smart game play.

Stop trolling.

On topic:

The issue with eve is a meta game issue. The jump drive changes aren't a direct attack on caps or their pilots but am attack on their supporting institutions. The things that have facilitated their power for so long. Similarly if you read the minutes from the last 3 or 4 years closely you will see trends especially lately towards big metagame changes because eve has a weak culture as a game. The larger the applicant pool the healthier the gene pool. Unfortunately because of the ability to endlessly hoard assets this has provided a toxic and stagnant game where new players have trouble find opportunities for growth as they simply can't expand their operations or compete against huge isboxing efforts.

In my estimate brave newbies was a total fluke. We probably won't see anything like them ever again. And not to mention much of their success is owed to a combination of simple stupidity coupled with some excellent managerial decisions early on. Has BNI cornered the market for complete newbs retention? Is it unfair or unbalanced how non combat ships can be killed? Or survive forever? I like to look at real life examples and say that for us to answer this question truthfully we must think of a real life example first.

Are you for real?

No, the fact that you don't get insurance for ships alone means that the consequences for ganking are far, far higher than five years ago. Even if none of the other half dozen odd nerfs to ganking had occurred since then, that alone would make my point.

As it is, ganking is mostly done with alts because the consequences are too harsh to justify using a main character for it.

I could say the same thing back to you, less pilots signed into the game, yet more concord kills for ganking. What don't you understand? Regarldess of the fact that you need more pilots to gank just shows you ganking is on the increase.

Good god pipe down with the I've never been ganked becuase I fly properly. And as for the its entirely unbalanced how easy it is for a non combat ship to never die..... that just nonscence

You mean the same webby alts that are also being targetted and alpha-ed before it can get webs on a freighter?

In this sentence, you have identified two problems.

The first being Isboxer. Being able to so multiplicatively use additional accounts is, in my opinion, absolutely unacceptable.

The second is more subtle. Why is it that people are so able to endlessly hoard assets, causing greater and greater inflation in the game, crippling the amount of purchasing power capable with a new player's potential income?

It's because there is not enough loss in this game. The game is too safe.

And that can be chalked up to nothing else but highsec. Highsec safety is the literal cause of stagnation and inflation both.

And everything CCP has been doing about this for years now amounts to nothing but steps in the wrong direction.

Fun Actual Fact: Only if CCP also removes or changes the Dueling mechanic.

Two Girls, One pizza guy.

^^This, obviously.

Except the Dueling mechanic is better, because each time the LE timer resets it plays that sweet spine-tingling sound effect that makes you sh*t your pants a little at each gate.

Hmmm, forgot about some of these new fangled mechanics they introduced. Ah, well.