EVE General Discussion

It drove a lot of people to the game, who promptly left when they discovered that nullsec fights like that happen incredibly seldom because even in the days of BR-5 the vast majority of nullsec was blue to each other.

There are tens of thousands of subscribed players in nullsec. If you wanted war, there's nothing in the world bad game mechanics could do to stop you short of dropping all input from the F1 key. If you wanted an end to powerblocs and coalitions, you could voluntarily shut them down yourselves. If you wanted smaller organisations to have a chance you could stop pouncing on them at every opportunity. At any point you could simply decide you don't like the look of a neighbour's face and try to rearrange it.

You complained about structure grinding, so CCP removed it. Now you whine that you want it back.

Ultimately you can only lay so much blame at the feet of CCP for that.

This thread is wall-to-wall nullsec whining about how the game mechanics don't let them get the nullsec experience they want, but it just straight up does not seem like nullsec knows what it wants. CFC wax lyrical about how the new jump and sov mechanics are stagnating nullsec, while at the same time telling me "we can easily get around jump fatigue and new sov, we have the numbers to ignore them." People constantly whine about the fact that jump fatigue utterly stifles the possibility of warfare on the scale of BR-5 and how the new mechanics are even more hostile to small groups, yet at the same time make out like Pandemic Legion and other groups being able to deploy carriers to anywhere in the game within 15 minutes was somehow a good thing. You say people who can't defend what they own don't deserve to own it yet you're complaining more about solo interceptors with entosis links than you are about entire fleets. You say that entosis makes the game boring yet there wasn't a day that went by before Aegis' release when General Discusison did not have a thread whining about the tedium of nullsec structure bashing.

CCP has a habit of occasionally making utterly terrible decisions but one thing I've got to say in their defence is that for the sake of Christ, they're at least trying to get you bastards out of your coalitions and fighting over nullsec again. Team 5-0 is like the goddamn giant panda breeders desperately trying to work out what ridiculous combination of aphrodisiacs, niche pornography and low-grade toxins they need to pump into your cage to get you guys to make a move on each other. They're bound to make some ****-ups because you guys are actively resisting the process. Every change CCP makes is met with universal consternation and disdain, as if CCP have no clue what they're doing - of course they don't know what they're doing, how the hell would they know if you guys keep demanding something and do nothing with the tools they try to give you?

There are tens of thousands of subscribed players in nullsec. If you wanted war, there's nothing in the world bad game mechanics could do to stop you short of dropping all input from the F1 key. If you wanted an end to powerblocs and coalitions, you could voluntarily shut them down yourselves. If you wanted smaller organisations to have a chance you could stop pouncing on them at every opportunity. At any point you could simply decide you don't like the look of a neighbour's face and try to rearrange it.

I remain convinced that CCP could acquiesce to every demand a nullsec player has made since the release of Phoebe and you guys would still be sitting around wondering where the gudfites are.

Actually, those of us here saying "the system is crap" are those who have adapted already. We've worked out that the best way to work with the new sov system is to ignore it and wok around it. The downside to that is it exacerbates the problem of stagnation in null.

And generally speaking, people with "a low level of mental capacity" come into threads on their NPC alts pretending they know more than they do about a situation and calling other people dumb. Come back when a) you've use the new system, and b) you're committed enough to your opinion to post with your main.

Ultimately you can only lay so much blame at the feet of CCP for that.

But the ultimate change would be to make the best gear rare, not by cost, but by being unique.
That would probably be the hardest change, but it might be the best.

Having less players with the best toys in the game means less people stagnating at the top.

I can lay the vast majority of the blame on them for that. The buck stops with them, not the playerbase; most especially when it comes to taking feedback for upcoming changes, something they are, to be quite honest, really really bad about. Every, and I do mean every problem with the existing system was brought up shortly after the announcement of these new mechanics, and the vast majority of the issues raised were ignored, and crop up now as expected. Now, as to whether that's due to the legitimate concerns being shouted down by the "Grr" crowd such as yourself, or CCP's legendary intransigence when it comes to player feedback, or a combination of both, is up for debate.

The rest of your post is just an angry rant, and I ignored it.

Hey, that was funny, and you know it.