EVE General Discussion

Do you call us the CFC because you still have the last war's axe to grind?

You have it backwards, btw. I was paid 900 Million ISK after losing two Oneiroses yesterday.

Honestly beside the op i havn;t seen any tears in here just discussion. I hope we can keep having a dialog about the mecahnics becuse at the end of the day were all just people playing a game and sharing a hobby we enjoy.

I don't understand why nodes have to spawn all over a constellation. It would be more conducive to the large single-grid battles everyone enjoys if it was just that structure (Ihub or TCU) that needed X number of entosis miinutes applied to it.

If you require players travel all over a constellation, you can potentially have a standoffish node hacking race that actually isn't satisfying.

Get rid of whack-a-mole.

I thought the imperium thing died with the book.

Imperium was just a natural evolution, there's only so long that a name that makes 14 year old r/eve poster chuckle is suitable, and that had to be replaced with a name that was more socially acceptable. The fact that the name changed doesn't make me smug, the fact that some people are so mad that they sit around stamping their feet and refusing to call the Imperium by their actual name, that carries a bit of smug with it. When someone attempt to attack you by acting like a child, yo know you've really hit them deep.

It may be that you actually know this, but just in case you are being deadly serious I'll explain it. The phrase is "We're not here to ruin the game, we're here to ruin YOUR game". Imperium members love eve, that's why they put in so much time and effort playing it, so noone has any interest it destroying EVE. The phrase is a taunt, that's all it is. Just like how in any other game players who play to win will do so by any means within the mechanics, even if they are considered cheap (like when people repeatedly use the same move in a fighting game). EVE just has a more flexible set of mechanics and ways to really annoy enemies. Play any competitive online game and the situation will be the same.

I just prefer typing three letters instead of eight...

And imp isn't nearly malevolent enough to sum you up.

I doubt it. When we ask for node reinforcement, apparently only one system (not the whole constellation) gets reinforced, like what happened yesterday with M-O and the neighboring systems. I had two clients open in J-GAMP and one was a minute ahead of the other.

Also jump fatigue. They would have to assume we'd still cyno ourselves around a constellation despite fatigue to make such a big decision based on cynos. It's unlikely.

I think it has more to do with wanting to force everyone through repeated chokepoints to make sure the fighting is down to the last person standing. It's a nice thought on paper and I agree with the idea, the problem is it makes gameplay worse and tedious and detached (people don't know wtf is going on).

Players are very clear about wanting single-point confrontations and I think in this case they're right about knowing what they want.

Not everyone understands the psychological value of that, though. In contrast, Imperium is a blowhard name.

The difference is the CFC is an enemy that can never change because it is in the past and unmoving.

Unlesssss you want to rewrite history. Could that be the case?

Some real world wisdom here, it's a mistake to fight the last war.

You should call an enemy by their name to help keep your head in the game of fighting who they are right now.