Player Features and Ideas Discussion

imagine that, you actually have to do work now to get your kills. its not hard to find your enemy as they have specifics, it just takes a degree of intelligence and specialization that most in eve lack. Real world experience that I have, have caused corporations and alliances to topple with out me even firing a round, its not often I do it, only to those that make my list.

Name one.

Changes have increasingly reduced Merc Crops, as essentially "Corps for Hire" content providers, to simple piracy.
Its blurred the lines between Mercs and Pirates, and reduced the common denominator to mass WDs and trade hub camping.

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Mercs fulfill the three core qualities in my PVP vs PVE diagram in my sig, and introduce PVP outwards to affect all the peripheral PVE activities in fulfillment of their contracts. So, ofc, do Pirates, but Mercs are contracted for the specific ends of their services purchasers.

As basically "Corps for Hire", they should be considered central content creators that embody aggressive capitalist values of EVE, especially for non-combat corps to hire to explode/impair the operations of their competing corps when they dont have the expertise/firepower to do so themselves, to protect their own operations, additional expert firepower, or ofc just for good old settling of vendettas.

This may, or may not, include AWOX/infiltration service, but again, as Mercs are a Corp for Hire, the purpose would be specific, and contracted, whereas Pirates are not..

Pirates are indiscriminate, Mercs are hired. Pirates are a universal risk, Mercs are specific.
Its sad this distinction is being lost between two very different kinds of content/service.

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This distinction is age old in RL history, along the lines that Mercs are loyal to highest bidder, whereas Pirates are loyal to none.
It is a shame this dichotomy is being eroded in EVE. Both Mercs and Pirates have changed history, according to their different modus operandi, this would be wise to include and represent in EVE.

Both Pirate and Merc organisations have historically risen to such size, wealth and prominence as to influence the course of history. This should be possible in EVE too, rather than systemically impaired by mechanics.

Especially since hiring a Merc Corp makes sense as the natural counter to Pirates.

Much of the these same mechanics issues are also impeding other related potential professions, such as Privateers and the long-lost Bounty Hunters. Both are squished out of the meta.

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I cant speak with any authority/experience on suggestions how to remedy this, but to my mind the underlying issue is clear and valid as a concern for CCP consideration.

There are two concurrent threads exploring this issue in greater detail from different angles to be found here for those who want to know more:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6630762#post6630762
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6695072#post6695072

Let us know when you've ever shot at anything ever, so we can take your opinion on finding targets seriously.

Honestly, the entire war deck feature is dumb. Come out into null sec, jesus. If you want to kill miners that bad, at least go ahead and suicide kill them.

"pvp"

yes but im not that one pulling the trigger just providing the ace intell with out agents and without spies.

If I named one of the more recent ones they'd be hunting me but after providing intel to a few grieifers, over 5b of ships were lost in less than 48 hrs for the war decd side.

Ive worked in the real world as Military Intel and Tactical Operations, dealing with real enemies in the combat zones is good work when you never get a convoy blown up, or a heli shot down, after that its easy to do the same in eve.

Regardless of how anyone feels about highsec wars, location agents need some dev attention.

They are pretty much unchanged in the last decade and given the effort it takes to get a decent agent I think they could use a buff.

Oh so we have a military brat here. Ok, US Army 11 years, been to a number of bases and worked as Enlisted in Tactical Operations and Military Intelligence in an Warrant Officer slot since 08.

Gather Intel on everything and know how to use it against them. Rather its manpower, weapons, vehicles, it doesn't matter.

Took out a cliff camp that had a heavy machine gun set up, ran 2 Blackhawks and 2 Apaches below the cliff side to dampen noise until they swept around to the base of the slope going up to drop soldiers, while another 2 Apache started engress routes taking out the Machine gun that has a 4km effective range from 8kms and starting initial runs while the other 2 Apache joined in. 0 soliders injured, 0 aircraft battle damage.

Anyone can suck up to get rank, so take your stolen valor else where and go back to school before they call your parents.

Now that we've got the epic rant out of the way, I'm going to point out a simple fact of reality.

Your military experience, if I had any reason to believe your claims, is irrelevant. Your military intelligence experience doesn't just translate that way into EVE, and you haven't done in EVE what you claim you've done. I don't believe you work in military intelligence, especially for eleven years, because if you did, you'd be taking your spelling and grammar far more seriously than you do. Yes, even on these forums, because it would be a point of pride for you to maintain clear and succinct communications skills, a vital skillset for anyone that wants to make sure that the intel they are delivering is clear and concise, with zero room for error. For example: engress? There's no such word. There is 'ingress', insertion, or 'egress', extraction. Soliders? Dude, you know those little red squiggly lines that appear under words every now and again? They're not just there to make them look pretty.

I, on the other hand, have a lot of experience with military intelligence, which is why I know this, and how I can easily pick up on lies like yours, and the many others you've told in this thread. For the record, it doesn't take a military intel specialist of any kind to gather intel in EVE. If you think you're something special, think again.