Crime & Punishment

I'm neither upset nor stupid.

Are you about to Holysheet1 on me? Is that what I'm feeling here?

Poop just got real Vimsy... what are you going to do?

Are you accepting my thunderdome challenge or not?

I think Vimsy is the kind of PvP'er who cares about his killboard that much that he will only engage when victory is 99.99999% assured. I'm not knocking it if that's what he wants out of the game. Each to their own.

Also on topic, I awoxed some dude in an Orca once, and he told me that it was the most exciting thing that had happened to him in 3 years of EvE.

I'd like a single player version of EVE.

One system, one station, four agents (one at each level to allow for progression), innumerable belts, one permanent ice field and a pre-populated NPC market selling every item imaginable at knock-down prices. I'd also like around 100 bots in system for me to socialize with.

Oh and I want a continuously re-spawning 4/10 which always drops the best loot.

It's like I always said.

If people were supposedly not recruiting newbies because of awoxing, then how was any awoxing happening to complain about? Meanwhile, I was knocking off fifteen corps a month at my prime, and getting into even more that weren't worth it, so clearly people were recruiting.

This was a false flag, to solve a non-problem.

Turns out, people join this game for the conflict that is the game's main selling point, not to chew on rocks in silence until they quit.

CSM Summer 2014 minutes. You can download pdf.

They said players that remain in NPC corps have a Drasticlly reduced retention rate.

One of their solutions to encourage corps to recruit players more and to make corps less scary was this.


Still wtf is my "exculde corps with FF-disabled, check box in corp search?

Ccp Lebowski said he agreed to add it but had to check with his team...
Edit may have been winter minutes i duno. 2014 Csm minutes. Big round table on corps

@CCP_Lebowski - also requesting feasibility of CAM being permabanned. Thanks.

Actually, the stats show that at least 3 times as many players join for "levelling their raven", they just leave unfulfilled.

I find this the be the most hypocritical part of these types of threads. You guys bang on about "the carebears" while you are purposely picking targets that don't fight back. you're as much of a carebear as they are, and what you want is low risk, no-challenge gameplay.

The awox change was put in to remove the almost entirely enforce restriction preventing people running highsec corps from recruiting new players. I don't think anyone seriously expected floods of noobs to be pouring in, but it's a start in the right direction. The problem is there's still so much more to do, because as it stands, the arrival into the game puts you straight into the firing line of the players who want nothing more than to harvest tears from easy targets, and that's no fun for new players.

Highsec should be pretty damn safe. There, I said it. That's what highsec is. The fact that you guys want to hide in the safety of highsec yet whine when others want to do the same is ridiculous. All you want is to demonstrate your enormous power over noobs. It's like walking into a playschool punching kids in the face to prove you're the strongest.

The biggest problem is that EVE already has that stigma attached to it. It's spent so long attracting trolls who want the freedom to beat up noobs and pat themselves on the back that the game is filled with those types of players and people know it. Mainstream gamers just aren't interested in joining as some reddit poster's fodder. And I know, I know, the themepark crowd aren't welcome here, EVE is a niche game, etc. If they aren't careful though it's going to niche itself out of existence.

Personally I have no problem with a bunch of players coming in from WoW and hanging around safely shooting red triangles while paying subs so that CCP have more cash to spend on improving the game. Since I don't sit around stations in highsec crying about "the carebears", it's irrelevant what they do there.

Anyway, that's my 0.50. Enjoy the inevitable wardec changes and the entosis links that come with them.

Guys let's totally butcher the game and reduce it's appeal to the niche audience that has kept the game alive up until this point in an attempt to appeal to the more conventional MMO audience!

This is a totally sweet idea because even though traditional MMO players normally migrate between games as those MMOs go f2p then die even though they have huge budgets and massive hype they will somehow stick with EVE in the long term.

Oh wait, that's a ******** idea.

I may be mistaken, but are the elite highsec pvpers crying about not being able to awox random corps of their choice?