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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2015-12-11 23:11:47 UTC
Yonis Kador wrote:
Asia Leigh wrote:
You are just seeing this quote now? Its many weeks old and have been copy-pasta'd many times since then....


Sorry bout that. I've been out of game for over a year and just re-subbed 2 days ago. It was quoted in that "Really" topic that was written today so it looked current. Either way, one more 'copy-pasta' won't hurt.

YK


Except you left out the most important part of Falcons high-horse speech :

Quote:
Okay, so what follows is entirely my personal opinion.




DMC

'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
Paul Pohl
blue media poetry
#22 - 2015-12-12 18:17:25 UTC
DeMichael Crimson wrote:


Except you left out the most important part of Falcons high-horse speech :


What?

the 'shut up slave' of adding to a locked thread
Dr Carbonatite
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
#23 - 2015-12-12 18:35:45 UTC
Cristl wrote:
Gregor Parud wrote:
Sadly the game is, and has been, moving more and more away from that premise.

Is this true though? I don't recall highsec ganks really being a thing back in the day at all (I joined during Exodus expansion), but now the forum seems to suggest that highsec ganks are commonplace. Lowsec is much more dangerous than before (I lived the first several months or so in a rupture in innocent bliss in lowsec, and never got killed, despite a PVE fit) but the logged on player figures were about 5000 around that time, so it's hard to make a truly fair comparison (no hotdrops back then too, obviously).

I've always found nullsec, if you live there, safer than lowsec too - communal intel channels and bubbles and all that.

Are there any figures around to compare "then and now"?


I'm not as old here as you, but I've been around since just before Dominion.

Highsec ganking is much more prevalent nowdays than it used to be; however, this is (more or less) a consequence of changes intended to make highsec "safer". A lot of players were put off by the "softening" of the game. The most vocal (and long-winded to boot) was James 315, who established the New Order (which became CODE) in retaliation.

Few seem to remember this, but the fact is that CODE and organized ganking mainly exists exactly as a blatant "F You" response to previous game changes catering to previous generations of whiners.
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