EVE General Discussion

I pretty much agree with the OP. I'd add this. There is no one single right way to play Eve. That is the point of Eve. Eve is harsh and part of someone's way to play Eve may very well including blowing your stuff up, crushing you in the markets, taking away resources you had planned to gather or tricking you into giving them your stuff or isks. Eve is the kids playground where all supervision has left the schoolyard to have a cup of coffee.

When another player does something "evil" there is no point in trying to understand what made them do what they did. They did because they could. So log on and just agree up front your time spent in Eve comes with no guaranties. With that in mind there is enjoyment to be found out in the "verse". Find some like minded pod pilots and trying working together to do something. Or don't and go your own way.

Try and be a little smart about protecting whatever it was you managed to acquire. While in theory Concord is there to make you safer they can'd safe you in every case. If there is someone out there willing to lose enough to blow up your stuff Concord can't save you. And Eve has many pod pilots who have decided "their" Eve is all about blowing up your shiny at whatever the cost.

Eve is like a game of chess where the chess club you belong allows tipping the board over for a small fee a legitimate move. How has a game like that survived for over a decade? When it means that there are greater challenges in such a game that makes it attractive to folks that like that extra level of play. You don't have to play at that level to enjoy Eve, just don't take it personally when the freedom of Eve play style means your labor fruits are stomped into mush on the way to the market. Think of those encounters with the players that want to stomp your fruit as an encounter with a boss mob who shares similar AI with you.

For Eve Online to break 1,000,000 subs it has to have one things it does not have

1. A safe area of space, 40+ systems where weapons cannot be activated unless at war or that system area is a SAFE SPACE for anyone i.e safe zone.

To many gamers require security, we do not have it, therefore we will never break 1mil subs, it's that simple

You get 1v1 fights non stop.

You have 7 kills and 5 losses.

The only solo pvp experience you had was losing a thrasher and a pod.

Let's address one thing, shall we. Don't talk out of your ass.

Thank you for correcting my English, you are quite correct it should have been aspersions. In my defence I had drank a bottle of wine when making that post, but it was amusing to make such a mistake. Can you also point out where I type teh instead of the, I do that a lot and it annoys me.