Discussion Of The Implications Of Niarja's Invasion

[Konchita]

@Nephew_Ruckus

Well my three Omega accounts bid you a fond farewell.

Can I have your stuff?

[Skip_Lorry]

You know cynos are not allowed in high sec. Don’t be like that.

Although, CCP could change that for industrial cynos, and allow them in high sec after the Trig invasion has played itself out. No doubt the same people gloating about Niarja would scream about carebears again if that happened. They always scream about carebears.

[Avaelica_Kuershin]

Good to see that’s fixed.

[Avaelica_Kuershin]

That’s odd, I’m pretty sure I didn’t put Niarja on my avoidance list in the last 12 hours, but the routes avoid it now.

[Skip_Lorry]

How about industrial cynos could be allowed in high sec? There’s really no good reason not to, even before the Trig invasion. Before cynos were split into types for BLOPS, Capitals, and JF, there was good reason to disallow them, but not after.

[Merin_Ryskin]

@Lucas_Kell

I’m not sure why you present people wanting to play in different ways as a bad thing in a sandbox game.

Wanting is not the problem. Expecting to be protected by the game mechanics even when they make no effort to defend their interests is the problem.

[DeMichael_Crimson]

@Merin_Ryskin

It would be great if carebears would ever bother to back up their words with actions, instead of just complaining on the forums about how PvP exists. If this supposed “majority” really exists outside of your imagination it should have no problems clearing the gatecamps from Niarja and maintaining a safe trade route.

But instead I’m sure you’ll continue to make threats on the forums and do nothing in game.

lol, this coming from somebody who’s last PvP experience was 2 yrs ago.

Also thanks for clarifying that you actually don’t know squat about how the Triglavian turned systems actually work, meaning it’s no longer able to be switched back and the Triglavian Gate Guns make short work of any negative standing ships on grid.

[Teckos_Pech]

@Dono_Tashu

In other words: You think that null sec is more important.

In other words I think the in game economy is important. Deflation is Bad™.

[Merin_Ryskin]

@DeMichael_Crimson

lol, this coming from somebody who’s last PvP experience was 2 yrs ago

You’ll notice one key difference here: I’m not whining about how unfair it is that there’s a dangerous system in my path after I did nothing to defend it. People aren’t required to do PvP, but if they’re going to refuse to defend their interests then they forfeit the right to complain that someone wrecked their stuff.

PS: did you know that alts are a thing and killboards don’t tell you everything?

Also thanks for clarifying that you actually don’t know squat about how the Triglavian turned systems actually work, meaning it’s no longer able to be switched back and the Triglavian Gate Guns make short work of any negative standing ships on grid.

Who said anything about switching back? Maintain neutral standings to deal with the NPCs, kill the player gatecamps to get your cargo through.

[Skip_Lorry]

@Merin_Ryskin

It existed, and they decided to smash it. Wrecking someone’s stuff just for the fun of wrecking it is a proud tradition in EVE.

0.0 PvP must be really exciting, you came all the way to Niarja to find it.

Admit it: in Niarja, you can’t be hot dropped, you can’t be bubbled, and you can’t be concordokken. You can log in and out whenever is convenient, dock up and keep your stuff in a indestructible station, and the Jita market is just a few jumps away.

You’re a carebear, that’s why you like Niarja turning Trig.

[DeMichael_Crimson]

@Merin_Ryskin

Maintain neutral standings to deal with the NPCs,

Guess you haven’t been paying attention, CCP has recently made it so players can’t have neutral standings, it’s either positive or negative standings towards Triglavians and EDENCOM.

[Ragnarr_Ragnarrson]

It’s still possible. The window for it is narrower though.

[Merin_Ryskin]

@DeMichael_Crimson

Guess you haven’t been paying attention, CCP has recently made it so players can’t have neutral standings, it’s either positive or negative standings towards Triglavians and EDENCOM.

Boo, that sucks.

(Which just reinforces my point that the one problem here is that the event removes player agency and replaces it with scripted NPCs.)

[DeMichael_Crimson]

@Ragnarr_Ragnarrson

It’s still possible. The window for it is narrower though.

I don’t think so, players use to be able to do it but CCP changed it.

In the past players started off with -0.001 Triglavian standing and 0.000 EDENCOM standing. To get neutral with Triglavian NPC’s players had to shoot EDENCOM which changed their standings to 0.000 Triglavian and -0.001 EDENCOM.

Since EDENCOM NPC’s didn’t register the negative standing, CCP decided to change it in a recent game patch:

EDENCOM NPCs will now be hostile to players which have any negative standing with them.

[Syfa]

@Xeux

The trig invasion is a huge success from a game developer perspective. People are highly engaged with this content - and not just for the money. Individual players might not be, but even those players seem to grudgingly admit that what is happening is somehow important

The problem though is that the content is abusive by design. The loss of a system is permanent. Systems fall incredibly quickly. The content is “hard” to engage with solo. There is no actual respect for player time or game/life balance - instead there is a huge mental pressure placed on the player to stay at the computer for as long as possible otherwise they suffer a consequence of something they never asked for.

While the content is “”“engaging”“”, it is also incredibly poorly designed and disrespectful to the players, faction warfare systems take longer to flip and those changes aren’t even permanent.

The loss of niarja doesn’t bother me so much, as I can acknowledge this is a game and step away from it. However there are all sorts of people who struggle with this sort of balance - I’ve seen people put in 24 hour days at the computer for basically no reason other than dev created exploitative “pressure”.

[Xeux]

I’m pretty sure subscription based game models have to rely on psychological manipulations in order to succeed.

[MB_ThePhotographer]

But then why is CCP so bad at it?

[Siegfried_Tahl]

@Xeux

subscription based game models

Here’s a good GDC talk on that topic Good Design Makes Happy Customers: A Microtransaction Design Primer from 2:29 to 8:40 Crystin Cox makes a good point why subscription model is a weak design.

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To all who is saying highsec crowd should’ve got together, fleeted up, stood their ground, etc.

There is Bartle player type theory, it’s well established theory in game design. There are different player types. You can’t force anyone into others playstyle. I wrote about it in Why people play

Preferred playstyle depends on your personality traits. It’s built into your character.

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When engaging with Trigs it’s the same single playstyle, you just hunt rats. Why not let explorers and miners, any other player type, participate meaningfully?

Here’s my suggestion on fixing FOBs

Initially FOB is like it is now, or even harder, with full armor and shield, guarded. But It also spawns a number of signatures and beacons, combat sites, data sites and RW sites. Running those makes FOB weaker.

Running data sites breaks shields. Running combat sites and RW exhausts defenders. Those sites respawn overtime, but if at any moment there are no sites left, then FOB becomes exposed, loses shield, armor, defenders, becomes visible on overview and empire military start bashing it. Everyone including noobs and alfas then may participate.

Devide BPC into pieces, drop several cans with those parts. Loot spew mechanics once used in data/relics may be used.

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CCP wanted highsec players to group up for Resource Wars. They wanted highsec players to group up to fend off FOBs that disrupted home systems.

How did it go? What did they learn? How many more times they have to bang their heads against this wall?

[Wadiest_Yong]

One the consequences of Niarja having been flipped, a funny zkillboard, with Frat and test going strong. Thoughts ?

Niarja | System

[God_Emperor_Kane]

Let him figure it out…