Didn’t read any, except that there is a limitation in order to prevent freeloading in quiet times. But this sudden stops do not look intended, I rather would expect a gradual change of spawn rates.
Easier would be a mechanism, that you have to choose the PvP option right at the beginning (new filament types, or choice on activation screen), so the server can always match you at the end. The PvE part has to stay for balance. This of course would cut off situations coming from spontaneous decisions in last room.
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On a meta level … the feature is attractive to streamers and solo PvP players. Which means those people also stop providing content for the sandbox.
Definatly no permadeath why pay subs if not for the ability to keep and use the skills you learn and there are a huge group of great people out there who don’t play the game to be bullies and most have been playing the game for longer than five years they just chose to be selective of who they teach the skills they have learnt and I say well done to them for not making it an easy game to master
I was really looking forward to the Abyssal PVP. I have thought for a long time that Eve needed something like this. Very disappointed after running around 15 sites over the last three nights with only one pvp gate appearing. Can we get some kind of clarification on how exactly this works, and more importantly, how and when it’s going to be fixed? Tired of getting my time wasted, and it really sucks if this feature is only going to be available during Euro primetime - which appears to be the case currently. Isn’t this supposed to be one of the key features of this update? Please make it where all timezones can use it.
Abyssal PVP has been closed more than 7 hours. Why close it? I saw lots of people are runing it. It is wasting my time to spend 20min to check after every hour.
Could you at least let us know, when it will open and close? It is so random.
Abyssal PVP has been closed more than 7 hours. Why close it? I saw lots of people are runing it. It is wasting my time to spend 20min to check after every hour.
Could you at least let us know, when it will open and close? It is so random.
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You only linked the structure in that line in the JB Jump tab, not the system. Should be fixed because I am also interested in the system without having to navigate around the structure info.
I’m enjoying it, frig abyssals are fun, I may get round to doing some pvp too. Graphics improvements look good. I don’t have any need for the navigation stuff but I’m interested to see what happens with how people use it. The activity tracker is good, I like watching what I do, and I think its totally useful for CCP to see whats going on. There could be a use for that in Corp applications too. Also the new ships, are so shiny.
I guess I’m done trying to participate in this new content. It’s been over a week, and the abyssal PvP still isn’t available in my time zone ( late US). Gates always shut off with no indication, so you have to either run sites or look for kills on zkill.
The worst part is that despite a lot of questions by players on here and on reddit, CCP hasn’t responded at all. I hear they mentioned this issue on a live stream this week, but nothing on forums, Reddit, Twitter, or patch notes. I guess this content will only be available to people who play in Euro time zone.
You cant have pvp when there is no one to pvp against. PVP that is gated by terrible grindy pve is going to only appeal to a small slice of the pvp players.
the whole concept is anti-eve. But thats the way ccp has been going. Alpha clones, microtransactions, selling sp, crime watch changes, instance pve and now pvp. All of this would have caused a firestorm when I first started playing. CCP has been slipping it in bit by bit hoping that the players will get used to it and not throw a fit. To some extent they were successful, but it had a cost - the players have bled away and eve is a shell of the game it used to be. CCP simply doesnt seem to get that it cant have it both ways - it cant chase after causal player and expect the hardcore players not to notice. CCP has been singularly unsuccessful in chasing after the causals - nothing they have done has been successful in replacing the slow bleed of players who unhappy with the lose of the old days. The numbers speak for themselves - ccp used to proudly announce how many people were playing and records they were breaking for concurrent online users - not anymore.
The point being made is that there are lots of people (including myself) trying to pvp and simply unable to because the binary nature of the gates is both unexpected and counter-intuitive. I see that some people feel that this feature is anti-EVE, but many others disagree with this idea.
You bring a ship that had to come from the ecosystem, enter an area with restrictions, and engage in consensual PvP… this is extremely close to a description of flying solo in Faction Warfare, which is the feature that I have engaged with the most in my 12 years of playing. Abyssal PvP does not seem out of place to me at all due to how I am used to playing and interacting with EVE. To suggest that this niche is adversely impacting the sandbox as a whole is a massive overstatement in my opinion. And I think that to be fearful that it sets a precedent for a future change that does have a broad impact is an overreaction, because everyone will undoubtedly oppose such a truly consequential change if/when the community is faced with it.
(I should disclaim that my mentioning of playing for 12 years is not intended to be some kind of flex “I am a more valuable player than you” but instead is meant to give perspective on how far my interpretation of EVE has evolved towards small/solo PvP in low-sec, without ever really building sandcastles or engaging in large-scale world-building or -destroying… I’ve been doing my thing this whole time and no one has yet had reason to suggest that my play-style is adversely affecting the sandbox)