My corporation Existential Crysis spent a fair amount of time out in Null security space during the Blackout, the thing that struck me the most was the fact that the pilots that continued ratting and mining after Blackout was implemented were adapting very quickly and on the most part successfully.
They utilised mobile warp bubbles to slow down the incoming threat of hostile scouts a few systems back from heavily ratted systems combined with cloaked watchmen on gates waiting for gate fire. They would spot you even if you where travelling in a covert ops frigate.
They perfected masking techniques to counter Hunters mining Dotlan npc kill data. In some cases they would predict and prepare to bait and counter what they knew was about to happen (a good content generator)
My point is simply that it was weeding out the weak and lazy and breeding a more hardcore null dweller.
Also making the main argument pro local in Null totally invalid.
Alas the direction Blackout was taking us has now hit a brick wall due the the weak and lazy voting with their wallets. A cowardly act that is symptomatic of a lazy mans personality type. Shame on you.
So what now for this once glorious game EVE Online as it spirals further into the abyss of stagnation?
Capsuleers who came back with hope will leave, and the ones who quit without giving Blackout a chance will return, bottling will increase and CCPāS bottom line will crawl back to its unimpressive levels. Of that I have no doubt.
People have said that EVE is dying over the years, Perhaps It died long ago only to be continually shocked back into life on the operating table briefly, only to slip back into its coma like state.
For me I will stick it out to the bitter end do my best to adapt. But I fear the end is near.
Good riddance. Now they just need to revert cyno changes and everything is awesome again.
After all, all the bots were banned.
And then they need to develop for EVE again. Castrate rorquals, delete supers/titans or make them anti capital weapons only. For all I care, do something to anomalies to make them group PVE over solo PVE and so on and so forth.
Good to see that Falconās pipe dream ends just like all Memes end: A painful disappearing into oblivion after a short heyday time.
