Warfare & Tactics

This, good sir, is a very well put together post.

Ahh yes, thanks for that one!

where's my towel?

Have I told you that you're my personal jesus yet?

Because EVE had drawn in a completely unproportional number of sociopaths and sadists. All those kids who could only find joy in breaking/stealing other kids toys and smashing their sand castles. All of them who actually play MMOs end up with EVE.

Though, while loud on forums and dictating the style of play for everyone in game; they are actually a small minority. Most of EVE players do just nothing but carebearing in Empire. But CCP doesn't care about carebears; and never will. PVPers who are in it for the tears are the prime target and those who are listened.

The rest of players are naive cattle only to pay sub to CCP and serve as victims for the "true players".

Oh and PS.
I'm a arrogant masochists who things/deludes himself he can outsmart the gankers.

Because eve allows for total freedom unlike wow . Even in high sec you are not safe from attack allowing for a more real life experience MMO . This to me with the whole sandbox architecture of eve online makes it the best and unique MMO in existence right now. The fact is u are never safe except when docked in station this is Eve most defining feature along with the cut throat mechanics of the game(I.E backstabbing , scamming , spying)

This is the reason i play eve and will continue to do so

There are a few that survive, some due to fitting all tank, including rigs, others due to us beeing too intoxicated and forgetting to load ammo, shoot the right target, etc. but generally speaking the success ratio is prolly around 90 %.

And even the ones that survive, if they are afkers or bots and we already put them in to armor, we do a round 2 and usually manage to produce an explosion.

Since you approach multiple issues, let's go trough them point by point.

- Statement : Eve has drawn in a large number of sociopaths .

Sociopathy usually puts one in an antithetic relationship with accepted behavioural norms and standards of the society he is a part of. You, dear sir are heading the same faulty path as the OP. The accepted norms and laws of Eve are the EULA and the game mechanics, not the set of rules and laws that govern your real life. You can't be a sociopath in Eve for killing someone when the generally accepted (you did accept the EULA when you first logged in, didn't you ?) set of rules allows you to.

- Statement : they are actually a small minority but are treated like a majority by CCP

To start with, you contradict your previous statement about the "completely unproportional number of sociopaths and sadists" . Are they many or are they few ? But we shall proceed past that small inconsistency because their quantity is actually irrelevant. You are prolly correct, most eve players never willingly engage in pvp and they rather enjoy running missions or mining. However the last person stating that "quantity has a quality all its own" is a certain mister J. Stalin.
In fact it is quite the contrary. The small minority you are talking about is actually creating the vast majority of the content in eve. Proof one beeing that you are here participating in a post about how many exhumers we ganked, rather than participating in a post about how many space rocks you mined last week.
Another proof is actually harder to notice, but is even more compelling once you see the full picture. When incarna was deployed and monoclegate struck, only the minority you mentioned actually felt apropriate to quit. For all intents and purpouses, those 5 % or less quitting should have no impact on what goes on in eve. However, as autumn struck server numbers were taking a much bigger hit , to the point where you'd rarely see 25-30k ppl logged in simultaneously. And all for a simple reason. Those 5 % wwere the ones providing all the content and all the fun. Planning invasions, declaring wars, starting ganking campaigns, pirating, scamming, etc. Anything that would create strong emotions troughout the playerbase, be those emotions hate or admiration, loathing or respect, they brought something to eve that was suddenly missing. That is why CCP takes them in to account disproportionally, because without them, eve is a game that does not stir any emotions, you can't really hate NPCs, or if you can, you need professional help.

Ever wondered why there are bots for mining, for missioning, for ratting, but not for pirating, ganking or waging wars ? Because what your majority does, dear sir, is so easy, mechanical and repetitive to the point where it's replaceable by a poorly written code on a machine. Or to put it another way, the quantity of thought your majority puts in to eve would fit on a floppy disk. What the minority does, requires so much creativity and spontaneity that no machine can replace it.

because, if you chose to stay in the game past that point where most get borred, then you will gank something shortly thereafter.

Ganking, you do it just for the sake of doing it, if a nice 2 bill isk blueprint drops out of a kill then its like winning the lottery.

Bragging rights, when you can get some one to curse at you, then your going to laugh in their face, then laugh some more after you tell your buddies, the entertainment factor can be pretty nice.

Ganking is easy, torpedo skills and tech 1 cruisers are win.

Collateral damage is one of the most fun parts of ganking. Sometimes people get cocky and think they can either come steal our loot or try to catch our pods or whore on our loss mails.

That solstice project guy was trying to catch our pods. I don't think he expected to get killed and podded himself!

We've gotten a few other real winners:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12002718
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=11958540

We've put more than one noctis into structure and some tengu that was whoring our mails was a bit surprised we shot him (even though we had no chance of denting his shields).


All in a days work

This idea seems to be common among miners, and held exclusively by them. Its cool that people shoot rocks and players actually build stuff and sell the items other people use, however a miner doesn't provide me with anything, or provide any service or function that I need to appreciate. Miners may see themselves as the foundations of the economy, but most players see them as the bottom of the food chain. If the miners all quit tomorrow over suicide ganking, prices may rise for me, but they'll also rise for everyone else, and I'll hardly be worse off. I suppose I'm disrespecting miners here, but the idea that one miner in the belt is contributing to my gameplay experience outside of being a target is kind of ridiculous.


Also this, this a hundred times.