i have no idea what you’re talking about. sorry if i screwed up somehow?
well, gladly western democracy won’t last another 20 years, though i’m not happy about the totalitarians winning this. anyhow, i’m out of the loop. sorry if i screwed up, i had no bad intention.
Which guy ?
Having an alt in PH I am very interested in what happens there and consider most kicks are actually legits.
But if you can’t specify an exact situation it looks to me like free insults against PH .
Do you continue to find CCP’s PVE content entertaining and engaging? Surely it’s not something you do grudgingly as a chore?
The same content being farmed and ran for years, with only minor changes to the AI (not even sure about that). The type of PVE content where you could look up exactly how to do it, what kind of numbers you need on your ships (tank, dps, and/or speed), and in which order to pop the rats?
No! Surely it’s not the lack of engaging PVE! Have you ever stopped to think that if the game had better and more engaging PVE elements, that being involuntarily involved in PVP when you undock wouldn’t be so bad?
I dunno, just a thought. Surely I’m just the crazy one!
Yeah, I enjoy doing PvE content in Eve. I mainly do exploration and lv 4 Epic Arcs. I find it engaging and I also refer to all the various guides available.
Players can make PvE content more engaging and challenging just by using different tactics and ship hulls, for example run lv 4 security missions in Assault Frigates or fleet up with friends and use HAC’s in high level exploration sites. There’s plenty of ways to make PvE content more engaging if that’s the goal.
I highly endorse using walk thru guides and Eve Survival mission reports for updated intel. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. In fact Military forces around the world always have pre-mission briefings with up to date detailed intelligence reports prior to going into battle.
If you wanna do PvP then go join FW or RvB, go cruise around in low sec or head out to null sec or even jump into w-holes, there’s plenty of PvP content available there. When so called PvP players say they can’t find any PvP content so they’re creating PvP content by suicide ganking mining and industrial ships in high sec systems, that’ just a piss-pore excuse used to justify griefer gameplay.
Soldiers and armies aren’t playing a game for entertainment…
My point is that with a better PVE experience, you would have more people out doing those things. Player vs Player activities encompass many different playstyles. Ganking and wardecs are nice because you can make good ISK at the expense of others. I don’t look down on mission runners or miners. I accept their gameplay and how it contributes to what makes this game great.
Wait… wut?
Soldiers and armies are engaged in playing EVE Online? To control the party on the top of the world presumably… ffs. You are not a soldier or an army because you play a game that has conflict in it. Even if you are a soldier you are not playing this game “as a soldier” you are playing it as just a civilian, unless you can’t disclose the top secret special forces group you are PVPing for in this game…
The PVE part of the game has been like this for 10 years, it’s nice and some people like me play it over 10 years. Just me, not because my country demands me to PVE for king and country. I just play this for entertainment.
People can select whatever they like in this SANDBOX game. They do not need to do ship combat (i’ll call it that as people will come whine that evil ore miners undersell the ore that PVPers honestly and hardworkingly took from haulers and miners. ) The problem is not that it can happen on occasion the problem is that it seems to be happening continuously and blocking starting and returning groups from paying a sub thus financing the servers. Retaining those new and returning players does not seem to work while pummeling them over and over while taunting them in chat for salt. Then saying ‘but that’s how I kept being intrested’ is of no financial intrest to CCP. I feel for you and it’s good some people find a way to enjoy being the ingame bully/joker but keep in mind it always goes a step further and people even debated about “hey, maybe asking for the Judges private information isn’t bad” this just prooves the issue with how gankers try to go further and further hoping to get their kicks and are angry when they cross the line and their accounts gets banned because they failed to see the line between game and real life.
He’s trying to make real life correlations to the game. In real life armies and soldiers aren’t necessarilly engaging and putting their lives at risk because it’s fun. It’s a sense of duty. I don’t imagine live combat is very fun.
If emergent gameplay was hurting sales badly enough CCP would step in. They are a company and their goal is to make a good product that makes them money.
Obviously you misunderstood my analogy, my point was about getting detailed info about the mission before actually engaging it. Rushing in blindly is just plain foolhardy.
As for this game being compared to real life, CCP does that quite often to justify their changes to the game, for example adding income tax to NPC corp members because they said ‘Everybody has to pay taxes in real life’, yet there was no benefit provided to NPC corp members for having that tax imposed upon them.
When you say ‘Emergent Gameplay’ I take it you’re actually referring to Suicide Ganking in high sec systems. Using that term is just another attempt to justify doing Grief Gameplay. Anyway, it seems to me CCP is definitely making little changes to that in order to pull in and retain more players. Granted they won’t implement drastic changes overnight for fear of losing a large amount of players so those changes are being implemented in little bits over time.