EVE New Citizens Q&A

No, it's not. Using hateful personal insults towards another player is against the TOS and EULA. There is no place for such behaviour anywhere in human interactions, let alone in a video game with no real-life consequences that we are all suppose to be playing for fun.

Again, you are conflating "being an aggressor" with "being a jerk". There are very good game reasons to gank, bump, gate camp, and blow-up structures. You might want to control space, or resources in a space. You might want to restrict travel somewhere (or residency somewhere) because of something you are doing, or perhaps, you just want to take the valuables the other guy has. All of these are actions that make you stronger, and often, your opponent relatively weaker in the competitive shared universe that is New Eden.

But even without such practical, competitive reasons, there is always the fact that some players find chaos and destruction fun. The most popular PvP games generally dispense with the building aspect and are just explosions and destruction. There is nothing "sociopathic" about wanting to explode imaginary things in a virtual universe. Eve though is a PvP sandbox, so the players also get to build the things they destroy.

This game has be most recently marketed as "Build Your Dreams; Wreck Their Dreams" to highlight this fact that you can be a builder or a destroyer, or as is the case for most Eve players, both. That mean you compete and cooperate with others to build stuff, and then compete and cooperate with other players to destroy it. If no one ever took the role of the aggressor because they were afraid they would be "pissing" people off, nothing intersting would happen in this game. There would be no player-driven stories and no player-driven economy; just a bunch a bored players sitting around amassing unneeded wealth.

You are not a sociopath if you enjoy playing a competitive video game where everything is imaginary and no one can get hurt. You may however be playing the wrong video game with Eve Online if you do not enjoy being in competition with the other players and declare them mentally ill for taking the role of the aggressor in a virtual universe.

I have been playing this game since 7/2003 and had my best times from 2005 - 2007. But, at that time, I was younger, single, in college having a good ole time. I enjoyed the game the way it was developed and defended its mechanics adamantly.

Fast forward to now, married, kids....I see things differently now. hi sec should be a gank/grief free experience, while i don't want to bring rl societal perspectives into this game, reality holds firm. a large portion of people who play games today want to control their gaming experience that is tailored to their liking. if they enjoy pve and they are paying or can be converted to a paying customer, then why is that a problem?

i don't want to dive into semantics, but if you want sub adoptions, conversion of free players to omega, and retention of current paying players, then you will need to conceded some ground.

i don't know the actual percentages, but in the EVE universe, my guess is that over ~85% is .4 and lower. Why is it such a big deal to leave ~15% territory to those who enjoy PVE or who are new to the game entirely? a new player cannot master much in this game without at least 6 months under their belt, unless that is, you simply want them to abandon pve and focus on pvp entirely?

The golden rule of business is to grow your subscribers, not cater to a niche market of unsustainable contributions.

arghhhhhh I hate this game, two weeks and I really hate . ok subject to another post .