EVE General Discussion

That's because such a thing would be against the rules of basketball, it's not against the rules of Eve though. As long as the opponents both play within the rules then not congratulating the other team when they triumph is indeed poor sportsmanship.

The fight doesn't have to be one sided, the same mechanics and tactics are available to all, that some choose not to use them is irrelevant.

Rubbing it in and demanding fealty are part of what produces those delicious tears and hatred, not doing so is counterproductive. Psychologically attacking an opponent's morale in this way is a force multiplier, as are the tactics used.

Bollocks, it's part and parcel of the process. See above about psychological force multipliers.

Oh, it's this thread, again.



Our biggest resource is people, so yes, the "average" industrial player / corporate entitiy does have access.

cant you just move somewhere else instead of living in the ganking hotspots?

If you go back and read what Jonah wrote, then yes the average industrial corporation does have access to the same mechanics and tactics.

That industrial corp could indeed grow to be larger, more powerful, smarter or any other approach within the rules that allows them to achieve what they want.

It's not the mechanics that stop those corps, only desire/commitment.

Low level "raids" that only allow T1 cruisers and frigate, which encourage teaming up would probably improve player retention under New Eden's new themepark.

Industrial players and corporations looking to impede their competition are one of the sources of CODE.'s funding and resources. So yeah, they do have access to those funds and resources, maybe not individually but definitely collectively.

Tactics often involve numbers, a resource that is universally available in a social game.

CODE. as an alliance is actually fairly small with <400 members, yet they manage to punch well above their weight in drama caused and tears collected. Admittedly they do have associated independents that act in their name and are often joined by people from much larger entities, who often disregard conflicts between themselves, in the interests of creating a mutually enjoyable fountain of tears.

On this we agree.

If you looked at the history of the game you'd realise just how wrong you are. The only thing preventing small corps from striking back against larger scale entities is themselves, for example small wardec corps are totally capable of effectively shutting down far larger entities through the use of psychology and asymmetric warfare.

Rarely, I've seen newbies helping each other out with it, but more often than not somebody rolls up in a dirty gurt shiny death machine and shows Dagan who's boss.

Last time I helped a newbie with it I rolled up in an Armageddon, his reaction to my shiny machine of death going pew pew pew was quite literally " 'king hell that's awesome"

No offense but some posts give me the impression that some people seek the easy way out of things instead of pushing through the pain and when I see the amount of autopiloted frighters in High-Sec I am asking myself "where is that monster named CODE that eats all the fun and kills all the indy guys?" I have them on -10 with my alt so I see if they are in local or not and I barely see them but what I see is a lot of juicy pinatas all the way from low to high-sec.
But since my high-sec experience is pretty limited someone might enlighten me and points out where exactly the problem with CODE is? I have read a lot of threads and a lot of posts where people complain about CODE in one way or the other but I never saw any hard numbers. Or heard stories of CODE killing some crazy loot pinata and the mining thing seems to be well, not too harsh either. The newbro miner can go where CODE isn´t active and the "veteran" can hop into a skiff and proper fit it so they won´t come more than once - I guess. Or do what the newbro is doing and go where CODE is not that present.

Aaaaand I just woke up my roommate with maniacal laughter.