Crime & Punishment

i must say it are often miners and indy corps that hire Merc's to war dec eachother

I thought Awoxing was the art of infiltrating a corp and stealing everything, sometimes the corp itself?

and Safari was the act of bringing in targets to kill, and Turkey Shooting was the effect of joining a Corp simply to get easy kills?

Impossible...the word only used by people who have no critical or lateral thinking skills. In other words, dumb people only see what is easy to see and believe what they are told.

I'd say that the Privateer nerf is when things started going downhill. Until that point, CCP was a hardcore sandbox defender. If anything, can-flagging actually created an interesting game mechanic, as opposed to making the game more soft. It's the more recent suspect flag that was a total throwback for the carebear population, although as always, it didn't end up working in their favor like they all expected.

There simply aren't that many white knights in the game. Who knew?

EVE is (was?) an open system. The ease of killing others is up to the players, and not systematic. You're relying on that age-old fallacy to justify your viewpoint, but it doesn't hold up when you actually consider what EVE is supposed to be. Making getting kills against certain players harder, no matter what the demographic in question is, isn't balancing, but an artificial handicap. Handicapping players in a sandbox is a bit silly, because players choose whether to be weak or not. This isn't like WoW, where being even a single level below the level cap makes you effectively useless in a fight against a level-capped character, and they need to segregate their pvp system into level-based tiers.

Here, you're basically saying "oh, you choose to be a cowardly, passive player who treats EVE like a single player game? Here, have some bonuses." So yes, when CCP enforces that sentiment, EVE is indeed getting softer, and we're not just thinking that. You'd be much more respectable if you instead said that "EVE is getting softer, but that's a good thing," as opposed to pretending that these sorts of changes aren't actually happening. At least honesty can be respected, if disagreed with.

This sums up the situation:

Jan Koxsos Kopecky • 13 days ago

"Hi dawgs mah name is badass, I specialize in shooting pilots that were autopiloting, mining or in whatever other form AFK. I have my super badass T3 proteus for maximum melee damage and mobility.

I AM THE ELITE PVP KING AND I WIN IN THIS GAME ALL THE TIME. I am also the best of the best cause I never die, not even 10 AFK mackinaws could take me on.

This change breaks EVE, since it will no longer enable me to boost my ego through shooting month old players in noob friendly corporations without any kind of retaliation.

CCP just cannot handle my mad ninja skills and I will protest and cry about this change as much as possible rather than go doing something that would require actual skills."

no that's theft.
AWOX is the art of infiltrating to kill as many people as possible with 0 concord response. The carebear side of ganking if you will as most of the time there is 0 lost, while the suicide ganker is 100% loss that's nothing more than a write off and not accounted for

cry more, i love watching pvp pilots cry when they cant kill new players with no risk anymore

aww

u mad bro?

Risk implies that there is a chance of not incurring a loss. Last I checked CONCORD always succeeds in a kill.

Risk is what we had prior to the switch. There was the risk that the corp turns on the awoxer and destroys their ship. This risk has now been escalated to the certainty of losing your ship. I'm still waiting to see a cogent argument in favor of this change.