EVE General Discussion

I must disagree.

1.) There is not a plethora of good solo spaceship games these days... unless you've managed to travel back in time to the late 80's or early 90's.

2.) Solo does not mean anti-social. (I get so tied of debunking this particular myth.)

3.) Even if there were a 'plethora of solo spaceship games' none of them can feature an AI which is capable of human deviousness. Solo is about personal challenge.

4.) Solo PvP exists within Eve; I do it all the damn time.

5.) It is not that anti-null sentiment is en vogue, it is a reaction to the scorn and vitrol which the common nullsec resident pours upon everyone else in the game. The typical knee-jerk reaction of any non-null resident is to despise nullsec as a whole.

As a solo PvP-oriented lowsec resident, I try to do my part to encourage new players. If they want to fight, I fight them, give them advice, loot (either theirs or mine), my fit, and sometimes large sums of isk and tell them to come back and kill my ship. If they're ratting and avoiding me, I leave them alone. If they're ratting and don't know what they're doing, I'll generally grab 'em, then let them go, and give them pointers on how they should avoid me or other people like me. I'm not alone in this... I'm generally surprised by how many people (especially the solo fighters) are out there doing the same thing.

I've found it's far better to assist the new player than heap scorn on them because they've not chosen the same playstyle I have.

Perhaps if nullsec isn't attracting new players, rather than asking CCP to do something, or shouting that the rest of the game should be nerfed into the ground so that your playstyle is the only viable option, you should try to see how others might see you?

There is too much emphasis on you MUST be part of a social group to be able to play Eve. In my experience so far, the more social a group claims they are the less likely they will be. I could get exactly the same "social interaction" just by having TS open and shooting the breeze with mates. Whether I am in highsec/lowsec/nullsec or a WH is and always has been irrelevant.

It's mostly down to the one simple fact that when I go to nullsec, I am a nobody and unless I can sing badly, swear like a navvy or produce heaps of porn links I may as well not be there. (This is a generalisation incidentally.)

In highsec, in a corp or otherwise, I am my own boss, I decide what I want to do and politics is limited to smacktalking Miillia in Rens.

There may well be incentives to go to null, (fleet fights/good ratting etc.) but they get very tedious and rather pointless after a while and the reasons to stay in null - particularly if you cannot progress beyond a grunt for whatever reason - get less and less the longer you stay.

Thank you for the nigh on useless idea. There is no way I would even consider joining a corp with Met Worst in it.

Rats. Lost my post. Forget the details then - thank you Nicolo.

Fun fact: I see and participate in goonswarm fleets alot. When they take newbies out they often give them particular amounts of attention, especially such despicable (in teh public eyes, and not in reality) DBRB who will make sure that new guys who fly in his fleets come out of them often tens if not hundreds of millions if isk richer.

Anyone who believes in all the crap about teh CFC (such as the bile spewed by riverini/snotshat) really actually deserves to be on the wrong end of our guns.

…except that those are not the demographics.

It's only 66% of the characters, and there's a fair chance that half of that (or maybe slightly less) are actually alts of the non-highsec third. That would mean the supposed “single largest demographical group” consists of maybe 30-40% of the players…

War dec shield.

Low sec roam and WH raid = easy access when want PVP.

High sec perfect casual play. High sec is place play EVE. Null sec is place work EVE.
Too big headache.

Pardon?

Yep. Mine.

Toss me an EvEmail at your leisure.

People solo precisely because they are social beings and have things to do outside of EVE, with solo/singleplayer games you can hop in, play the game for a few minutes, save, then hop back out again when you need to I don't know, eat or to do work, or talk to people. A player who likely spends several hours a day playing a game making just to gank one person or get that extra ISK and lecturing me on being anti-social for playing this game casually is the very height of irony.

If I log into EVE and try to form a mining op or corporation or do anything involving a group I am essentially committing myself to half a days worth of boredom when nowadays I have better things to do than **** away my time on a game made up of useless time sinks and grinding.

Excuse me for playing this game as a sandbox and not catering to your style of play.