OK so its PvP. The consequence of which means that the other half of the ‘P’ is the hunted…which also means that every miner who undocks from a station is doing PvP. And as miners mine more than gankers gank…miners do more PvP than gankers.
So really you gankers are just lazy and not doing enough PvP. I mean you fire at someone for 10 seconds and think that is your PvP for the day…while miners have to be alert and hunted all day long as the other half of the PvP.
Those who have limited experience with PVP should aim to get a better understanding of it and try it. This point has been brought forward by many and really deserves it’s own thread.
Data can’t tell us everything about why something happens, it is a snapshot of the current situation. With analysing anything all aspects of it must be taken into account in order to come to a logical conclusion. Lets all get on the same page regarding this one, we can only follow a logical process when discussing Eve, to do otherwise would only promote falsehood and lead to confusion.
This is the most difficult PVP game on the market due to actual pvp being complex and it taking a considerable amount of time to gather resource to obtain a ship. The game was 100% designed this way on purpose and that core mechanic will never ever change.
OP looks at CCP’s stated intent of EVE needing more destruction and their attempts to bring this about. OP notices that despite CCP’s efforts, actually less destruction is happening. OP asks why it’s hard to get more destruction in a game supposedly based on PvP.
PvP players who have no concept of game design start jumping in to say “it’s the players fault, because us PvPers are really rad and cool, but most players are bad and fools”.
Kezrai jumps in as usual to correct braindead assumptions, declarations of sheer fancy as ‘fact’, and other PvPer nonsense they engage in to deny reality and pretend they’re cool.
Kezrai and others point out the facts, the numbers, the actual published statistical behavior of EVE players across over a decade and millions of logins to support some conclusions that “PvP can and should change for the better”.
PvPers immediately panic at the idea of potential change, and start all kinds of hand-waving, ad-hominems, strawmen and sheer made-up nonsense to stop anyone discussing ways to make PvP better for more players. As they always do. (Well, the ones on the forum at least. Real PvPers are just out PvPing and ignoring all this.)
Kezrai points out the facts, again, and explains them in small, simple words.
PvPers start saying “Data doesn’t matter. The behavior of millions of logins across a decade or more isn’t important. What’s really important is this story I told about me and another guy 6 years ago when we had a PvP fight. That’s what’s truly significant.”
Kezrai and Cilla confronts the numbskulls with the inadequacy of their arguments.
PvPers start to flee the conflict, but then rally and come back saying “none of your points matter and the data doesn’t mean anything, because your forum alt hasn’t got a PvP record. So there!”
That’s pretty much it. No actual arguments from the PvP crowd. Just made-up BS and reality denial. Only one, single, quite limited suggestion on “improving PvP”. (Thank you for that one, Aaron.)
The PvP crowd here is very, very invested in a specific style of ambush-gank-“sure win” PvP, and/or on pretending “PvP is super hard in EVE and only us elite warriors can do it”. So the last thing they want to see is more, better PvP with more people engaging in it.
It’s kinda weird the way these so-called "PvP"ers feel they’re elite warriors because with a ganking destroyer they can destroy weak ships armed with mining lasers. That’s an odd thing to build your sense of self-worth and validation around.
At any rate, EVE isn’t even a PvP game - they just use that hook to sucker in some extra subs from social misfits.
EVE is a space economy game, and the miners on average win it every month we have recorded data for. Because they mine more value every month than all destruction put together, and way more than gankers destroy.
It must suck, playing second (or third) fiddle to a bunch of weak ships AFKing their way to victory. Explains why so few players engage in PvP, I guess.
You still haven’t proven nor defined what PvP actually means to you. Hence you can move the goal posts forever We noticed that already. I do say usually your troll efforts are better tho.
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Warzone 2100 (1998) is still being updated by a fan who purchased the rights and it is a great pvp game. Each team can be 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3 etc, each player has their own base on a limited size map and must research their technologies. Each player can build up to 135 tanks and cyborgs which can be fitted with weapons like Cannon, Machine gun, or rocket.
I normally play the 4v4 matches with the goal being to destroy all of the other teams bases.
Each match lasts around 20 minutes depending on the skill level of each team. It’s a good strategy game if you want something which doesn’t take long to build and losses aren’t so painful.
The campaign mode is really good too, it’s a great story.
I HATE the 43% WR ones with 20K+ games driving their inevitable German tanks while raging. Who will stick their story of “I always have bad teams that is why I’m 43%” no matter dumb that is.
Indeed. But as I said in one of my very early posts, one comes across a stance that is not unlike the Emperor’s new clothes. All these ‘warrior PvP-ers’ have to keep up the pretence. The Emperor is wearing his finest shiny gold PvP. Ganking is some glorious battle in which the hunted exclaim ’ great fight !'…rather than the reality of it being a **** easy turkey shoot.
So along comes the equivalent of the little un-brainwashed boy in the story…shouting out ’ but the Emperor’s got no clothes on ! ’ due to not having yet had time to be initiated into the secret cabal of sheer pretence.
And the ‘warriors’ wriggle every which way…contradicting themselves numerous times. Nobody wants to admit that shooting goldfish in a bowl really isn’t all that grand or glorious and really doesn’t require all that much skill. They desperately have to keep up the pretence in which they are glorious lions and the hunted are just mindless and stupid wildebeast.
Ah…that must be why they have a narcissistic ‘Princess’ in charge, and let’s face it James315 effectively is ( or was ) ‘the Emperor’ of said story and there’s so much BS ‘lore’ spouted. Yeah…that really sounds like ‘chilling’.