EVE General Discussion

I lived in null for ~10 months, most days I triggered an escalation from anom farming or from an unrated, , even if it is a simple 1 stage escalation to a escalation version of a normal ded plex, the escalation placement has sufficient smarts to (a) put it in a different region if it can and (b) choose hostile if it can. As it turned out, I lived ~3 jumps from neutral space and 6 from hostile, so that is where my escalations went (since the min range was 5-6).

So what thing do you think happened, when I went to do my escalations?

Gate camps, chases, combat probes on d-scan, waiting out known dangerous pilots, doing it the next day racing the timer, doing escalations with neuts in system and relying on d-scan to stay safe, bouncing the d-scan range back and forth to check the neuts wasn't moving, even shooting my wrecks if necessary so to ensure the escalation location couldn't be found if I was forced to hide, running back home through camps with 1b+ in mods in cargo.

All fun and random stuff, as player encounters tend to be. CCP doesn't need to invent this into missions, its already in the game.

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There are simpler (safer, cheaper) versions of that game available to you - the simplest being highsec deds where you can contest by being fast at finding plexes, by being fast at clearing plexes, and if you find one with other players in it, attempting to tag the overseers, and then you can choose to steal if you fail to tag it, chances are your opponent will fail to stop you warping out with the goodies.

There is also a massive spectrum of risk / reward escalation from high to low and probing related activities in lowsec, since there are regular stations and highsec islands in low areas, there is a massive set of conceivable solutions - prior to being able to fly the t3, I used to blockade run (ie covert cloak haul) hacs (that couldn't covert cloak) into areas to use whenever I wanted to probe or escalate in the area.



probe launcher.



ah yeah, I want to go through the logistics of having hundreds of people in the right ships together online at the same time to make a major attack and have the game roll a massive random dice saying, no matter how good, well scouted, and planned my attack strategy is, the game is going to bend it over the kitchen table and give it a random jolly rogering up its most tender passage. Thought level in this one : nil.



Move your stuff to valuable areas in a blockade runner, its the same thing really - reward is not losing your stuff. A few years ago, I found an untowered plat moon in aridia, and when the market kicked up as it does, I "escorted" the tower in, and then "escorted" the goo out once once a week for a lot of reward.

I pretty much sell most of the b-type coreli remote reps in dodixie since I'm farming the b-type loot table with this character for injects, buy them from me, fit them to a healing frigate and keep your friends alive in lowsec.



get some friends and try contest some fozzie sov. You mightn't hold it for long, but IMO the scale of effort required to pinch some thinly held territory right now is nowhere near as terrible as it used to be.

ie why not take part, or failing that, why not look on the eve map for combat and go watch it.

I know you like to play alone OP but why don't you try out incursions? You'll get to do what you enjoy with people, lots of iskies, and potentially make friends...gasp.
Why anyone would run lvl 4's for years on end is beyond me.

At least the missions have good music (eve has sound).

PvE needs an expansion... the whole of it, not only in high sec. Maybe in 2047, when we get player built stargates and new systems.

Want a medal ?

Considering the devotion to big-noting yourself and insulting those you disagree with on the forums, actually getting around to engaging in "real PVE" must represent a herculean effort.

So you claim to speak for all PvE players? Funny how I pretty much stopped doing PvE for the very reasons that you claim PvErs do their stuff.

Sheesh, you'd be an excellent spokesman for General Motors or some such. The mentality is definitely there at least.

Who says that those activities are the only ones that are legitimate sources of content? Or perhaps you are advocating for a complete removal of all NPC's, all factions and missions etc? Cause let's be honest - how much content are those currently providing anyway?

Losing a decent chunk of players is a small price to pay for player only content.

Today I learned anyone who isn't interested in doing nothing but PvP has no place in EVE.

Thank you for telling me how to spend my time in a sandbox game. You've been very helpful.

Alternatively, move to anywhere but highsec, and go back there once they do something again for it. Game has additional content, not just highsec.

I don't need a medal, I got isk from all those rats. And let me tell you son, you haven't seen an insult from me. If you think you have, that just means your sensibilities are a bit too tender for the forum you chose to post on.

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Edit: CCP should rename the damsel, put in some blue clouds, triple spawns and sell it as new content. Problem solved.

Edit2: Better not triple spawns. People may start to decline the mission if it takes too long. Double is enough.