It’s not really hate that I feel. It’s anger, frustration, helplessness, embarrassment, humiliation, being a laughing stock, etc. etc.
It’s sad that everything goes to the most viscous. I have no interest whatsoever in fighting against other players, I simply want to do something a little more complex than dropping three ingredients into a potion bottle (referring to Skyrim), knowing the outcome before I do.
Like, I said, I don’t do social well and I don’t or won’t ask for help even when I should. I generally avoid forums like the plague.
So I’ll just go back to playing with myself… er… with Lydia that is in Whiterun.
Well, you chose a weird game to play if you have no interest in interacting with any other player.
Maybe a single player game will do better.
1 Like
I don’t mind interacting, I just don’t because I’m a complete social retard. Of course some of my problem might be because I can’t identify with someone that look for any chance to kill a less experienced player just for fun.
I several single player games, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Crysis2-3, Far Cry 3-4, Endless Space 2, Endless Legend, Civilization V, etc… The challenges are completely different.
Yeah, THIS is a loss in an Orca:
Peanuts.
And so does Eve. The rules differ in high sec, low sec, null sec and wormhole space, and are designed in a way that high sec is generally safer. A new player will rarely get shot, since there’s rarely incentive for the ganker to do so, but if your ship drops more loot than the cost (enforced by the rules) of shooting you, it’s perfectly valid gameplay to shoot you.
At which point things (like in chess) move beyond the rules and into the realm of strategy. If you make it more costly to kill you, and less profitable, it will no longer be the best strategic option to shoot you.
1 Like
Look at the bright side OP, at least you weren’t the unlucky guy flying an Orca with 500Bil in BPO’s and BPC’s and got ganked.
I will honestly say I’m sorry that another player left Eve. After all, players are the lifeblood of any online game. That said…
Welcome to Eve where no one and no place is safe. My soon to be wife got her ship blown up while carrying a lot of stuff (it was peanuts to most people, but a lot to her). Do you know what she did? She sucked it up and got back to playing. When I got home, we discussed what happened and we talked about what she could have done differently.
Look at what you did wrong and learn. That’s what Eve is about.
2 Likes
That’s great, but CCP and all of the rest of us have ceded all the power to the gankers. Just like American corporations, they calculate that breaking the law is cheaper than following it.
I’ve been hanging around waiting to see what CCP does with the minerals/ores. Looks like they are pushing miners out of highsec.
It is the illegal miners that attempt to evade the law of highsec, not the gankers.
2 Likes
YIKES…sorry for your loss. Damn. I feel your pain, kinda…never lost that much stuff in one fight…but no offense, that ship never should have undocked with all that in the holds. You had to know it was a huge risk. You brought that on yourself. I would rather make a dozen trips in a space trucker with a cloak/mwd setup than try to move it all in one go, in a flying boat with no legs.
You keep saying this, but you haven’t provided any evidence to back up your claim.
Instead, the evidence is piled against you. CCP has nerfed ganking many, many times.
And no, it isnt cheap. You have to have 20 accounts, all omega. Do you know how much money that is? That’s 30 billion isk, or 400 dollars a month to upkeep. And that’s just the accounts.
The changes are mainly moon ore, which it shouldve changed, because profits were so high.
1 Like
Nope, it was never the intention that 3/4s would be yanking open the isk faucet and only 1/4 would try to bring some balance. One could say that maybe that was a failure, not a success.
- The amount of orca’s mining in hisec is amazing. A glaring demonstration of wealth. Wealth attracts.
- When Hulkageddon was still a thing there was less complaining.
- People attacking in hisec pay the price, Concord sees to that. No safe havens.
- Every day the game automatically generates fresh isk, via fresh asteroids, bounties, etc etc etc. The balance to that, to keep the economy more or less in check, is Destruction of value. It really is that simple.
- Maybe the original idea two decades ago was for people to combine pvp with pve, the latter funding the former ? If that is true then maybe that was the real failure, and it’s getting worse, judging by the number of threads.
- If you don’t make enough money to replace your ship and still make a profit overall then maybe you should change your approach.
1 Like
This isn’t possible anymore, is it? Battleships smartbombing a bunch of Hulks and Covetors: https://youtu.be/fFQBmmOjdvU
What a view!
It is still possible.
You were stupid OP. You knew the danger and you didn’t plan for it by making 2 trips or sending stuff by contract, both methods you were aware of due to game experience. Open and shut case, stop being butt-hurt and pick up the pieces with some dignity.
3 Likes
Sombre Asesinos hello there. I’m presuming you got ganked. Unfortunately, there are players in hi security space who attack newer players and players who are unable to defend themselves. It’s designed by CCP this way on purpose; so that no one in New Eden truly feels safe anywhere.
The downside though is that some players use it as a form of griefing, to carry out narcissistic whims, or because they take joy in disrupting other players’ game. And yes, in some cases they just want your stuff.
Can you describe what ship you were in, what you were doing when you got scorched, and who/what scorched you?
Assuming by your response that you didn’t read the thread. He lost an orca with 7 Billion of stuff in it. He’s not a new player, and has experience with ganking in the past.
4 Likes
He sure whines like a new player though.
2 Likes